Reviews - THE ROLLING TAPE

November 5, 2025

As part of the Scotland Loves Anime festival, Takeshi Koike, who showcased his latest film Lupin the IIIrd the Movie: The Immortal Bloodline,...

November 5, 2025

Akutsu (Junki Tozuka/Kaoru Kobayashi), a dying former yakuza serving a life sentence, looks back on his life during the summer of 1986 and is...

November 4, 2025

Hong Sang-soo is no stranger to consistently putting out films. This is the first year since 2020 that he hasn’t released at least two films....

November 4, 2025

A parent’s desires are rooted in their children having the opportunities and resources that were never afforded to them when they were young....

October 30, 2025

In the final stretch of the Halloween season, it can feel a bit hard to find a way to get your annual dose of spooks and scares. The big fran...

October 30, 2025

Halloween is just a few short days away, which means we're in the thick of scary movie season. Once you've passed out all of the candy and tu...

October 29, 2025

I, like many others, find coming-of-age films deeply resonant, as they provide a sense of belonging and capture something raw and human about...

October 28, 2025

Jay Kelly is one of my favorite subgenres of movies—those about the art of filmmaking, movies, and actors themselves. The film follows famous...

October 27, 2025

The first shot of Hasan Hadi’s The President’s Cake is a wide shot of dusk hitting the Mesopotamian river connecting a riverway of marshlands...

October 25, 2025

Luca Guadagnino’s After the Hunt (2025) has been the subject of much discussion and debate since its premiere at the Venice Film Festival. Ce...

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