Contributions from David Jenkins | Little White Lies

Contributor David Jenkins

Three adults, two men and a woman, embracing intimately in a dimly lit room, with warm orange tones casting a soft glow.
Review

Kinds of Kindness review – a salacious, sun-bleached fable

by David Jenkins

Yor­gos Lan­thi­mos returns with his mer­ry band to explore – in trip­tych form – all the fun­ny and sick ways in which we entrap our­selves inside psy­cho­log­i­cal pris­ons of our own making.

5
Anticipation
4
Enjoyment
5
In Retrospect
A man with curly hair and a beard wearing a beige t-shirt and a black jacket with a fur collar, standing in front of another person.
Review

Hounds – This contrived crime story outstays its welcome

by David Jenkins

Two bum­bling hoods in Casablan­ca are charged with dis­pos­ing of a corpse in Kamal Lazraq’s dis­ap­point­ing thriller.

3
Anticipation
2
Enjoyment
2
In Retrospect
Three people standing on a rocky outcrop overlooking a hilly, forested landscape at sunset.
Review

Sasquatch Sunset – Gross-out larks with an anthropological twist

by David Jenkins

A fam­i­ly of myth­i­cal beasts are observed in their nat­ur­al habi­tat in com­ic por­trait of ani­mals and their instincts.

3
Anticipation
4
Enjoyment
3
In Retrospect
Close-up of a snarling, bloodied creature with sharp teeth and wild, matted fur.
Review

Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey 2 review – witless nonsense

by David Jenkins

Anoth­er unwatch­able slash­er dirge from the IP graver­ob­bers behind 2023’s unlike­ly cause célèbre.

1
Anticipation
1
Enjoyment
1
In Retrospect
A man in a cowboy hat sitting on a crate beside a horse, holding a book.
Review

The Dead Don’t Hurt review – elegiac and tenderly romantic

by David Jenkins

Vig­go Mortensen’s som­bre take on the west­ern evokes some clas­sic Clint East­wood films.

3
Anticipation
4
Enjoyment
4
In Retrospect
A group of people gathered around a vintage bus in a lush, overgrown environment, black and white image.
Festivals

Grand Tour – first-look review

by David Jenkins

A visu­al­ly rav­ish­ing if emo­tion­al­ly and the­mat­i­cal­ly opaque trav­el­ogue is the lat­est from Por­tuguese mae­stro, Miguel Gomes.
Cartoon cat-like character sitting on a plate of cooked food, with flames in the background.
Review

The Garfield Movie review – as messy as a child eating spaghetti

by David Jenkins

Anoth­er lack­lus­tre ani­mat­ed for­ay into the lasagne-smeared world of Jim Davis’ most famous com­ic creation.

2
Anticipation
2
Enjoyment
1
In Retrospect
Two people, an older man and a younger woman, standing and talking in a dimly lit setting.
Festivals

The Shrouds – first-look review

by David Jenkins

David Cronenberg’s melan­choly explo­ration of how we retain our con­nec­tion with the dead makes for one of his most beau­ti­ful love stories.
Young woman in white top and black trousers practising martial arts moves in a gym.
Festivals

Julie Keeps Quiet – first-look review

by David Jenkins

A young ten­nis star refus­es to open about an abu­sive coach in Leonar­do Van Dijl’s impres­sive fea­ture debut.
A person in a red dress gesturing on a dark stage, with other people visible in the background.
Festivals

Emilia Perez – first-look review

by David Jenkins

This ghast­ly musi­cal melo­dra­ma from Jacques Audi­ard tells of a Mex­i­can car­tel bosses’s gen­der affirm­ing surgery.