Dominic La-Viola, Author at Four Time Film School Dropout

IFFI 2026 Review: Chronicles From The Siege and the Memories Left Behind by War

★★★½ Abdallah Al-Khatib’s Chronicles From The Siege is an insightful and grounded look into the abyss of a collapsed civilization, […]

★★★★☆ Tommy Kai Chung Ng’s Another World feels like the closest thing to a modern Studio Ghibli film that I

John Hughes and the Mythology of the American Teenager Few filmmakers understood adolescence the way John Hughes did. Not the

★★★★☆ Pierre Monnard’s Hallo Betty is one of those rare true-story films that never feels constrained by the rigidity of

Over the past several years, a quiet shift has been taking place within the film industry. While much of the

★★★☆☆ The Negotiator reconstructs the horrifying true story of the kidnapping of Italian journalist Giuliana Sgrena with a procedural focus that

★★★★☆ Aleshea Harris’s Is God Is carries echoes of Quentin Tarantino’s revenge-driven genre filmmaking, but filters that energy through Southern

★★★★☆ Christophe Dimitri Réveille’s CHE GUEVARA: THE LAST COMPANIONS is both an insightful historical documentary and a deeply human examination

★★★½☆ 9 Temples To Heaven feels like a spiritual reincarnation of Little Miss Sunshine, trading the chaotic dysfunction of the

★★★★☆ Christophe Honoré’s Orange Flavored Wedding is a deeply intimate family drama that dismantles the illusion of emotional stability piece