Posts By Anton Bitel
Shudder UK film review: The Room (2019)
March 21, 2020 | Anton BitelThe trap of capitalism and Oedipal family relations collide in this creepy, Twilight Zone-esque fable.Read More
VOD film review: Bacurau
March 13, 2020 | Anton BitelAn engrossing action film and a political allegory, this distinctive Brazilian Western is a big, brassy genre showdown.Read More
VOD film review: The Colony (2013)
March 6, 2020 | Anton BitelThis post-apocalyptic, perma-frosted horror outlines an endpoint for today’s human rapacity.Read More
Shudder UK film review: Madman (1982)
February 21, 2020 | Anton BitelJoe Giannone’s one and only feature hangs up some sophisticated ideas before going into slasher routine.Read More
VOD film review: Come to Daddy
February 21, 2020 | Anton BitelGenre producer extraordinaire Ant Timpson proves he can also direct in this extreme and darkly funny tale of fathers and sons.Read More
VOD film review: Monos (2019)
February 17, 2020 | Anton BitelAlejandro Landes’ guerrilla rites of passage offer a bleakly surreal child-soldier sensorium.
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VOD film review: Sisters (1972)
January 24, 2020 | Anton BitelSisters aren’t doing it for themselves in Brian De Palma’s sophisticated thriller of male abuse and manipulation.Read More
VOD film review: Burning (2018)
January 8, 2020 | Anton BitelLee Chang-dong’s masterful pantomime thriller explores treacherously ambiguous borderlands of class and gender.Read More
Netflix UK film review: In the Line of Duty
January 3, 2020 | Anton BitelFast-paced but forgettable, Steven C. Miller’s cop action comedy lets an ageing cowboy loose in the internet age.Read More
Long Day’s Journey Into Night: A mesmerising trip down memory lane
December 27, 2019 | Anton BitelBi Gan’s noir-inflected trip down memory lane brings more Kaili blues while putting the viewer in the mood for love.Read More