Posts by Anna McKibbin

Youth (Homecoming) – first-look review

By Anna McKibbin

The final chapter in Wang Bing's epic trilogy examines love old and new in China's Zhili province.

Phantosmia – first-look review

By Anna McKibbin

The Filipino maestro returns with a four-hour meditative drama about a retired military officer who must confront his past after receiving an unusual medical diagnosis.

It Ends With Us review – struggles to grapple with its heavy themes

By Anna McKibbin

Literary behemoth Colleen Hoover makes her cinematic debut, with this meandering, shallow examination of domestic abuse.

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The politics of longing in the cinema of Nicholas Sparks

By Anna McKibbin

Within the wildly successful movies adapted from Sparks' bestselling novels, there's a formula for romantic success.

When pop stars become auteurs

By Anna McKibbin

The visual album is a key, genre-defying vessel for pop music titans transferring the symbolic power of their music to image-making.

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