
ALL FILM REVIEWS
‘Karnal’ REVIEW: The Devil of the Province
As the final movie in her renowned feminist trilogy, Marilou Diaz-Abaya’s 'Karnal' offers a wicked spin on the traditional Filipino patriarch and his countryside town.
‘Labs Kita... Okey Ka Lang?’ REVIEW: The quintessential best friends-turned-lovers movie
'Labs Kita' is an essential viewing of Filipino cinema that serves as a blueprint for movies like 'Paano Na Kaya', 'She’s The One', 'Must Be...Love', and 'I’m Drunk, I Love You'.
‘Nasaan Ka Man’ REVIEW: Horrors Within Cycles and Secrets
Beyond the film’s formalist achievement lies an interesting transformation of secrets to anxieties—and anxieties to horror.
‘Minsan Lang Kitang Iibigin’ REVIEW: A glorious, confused mess
Gloriously intense yet thematically confused, 'Minsan Lang Kitang Iibigin' is proof of the unpredictable alchemy of movies.
‘Minsan, Minahal Kita’ REVIEW: When happiness is a sin
Dive back to the glory days of Sharon Cuneta and Richard Gomez love team with Ricky Lee's and Olivia M. Lamasan's 2000 classic, 'Minsan, Minahal Kita'.
‘Sa Aking Mga Kamay’ REVIEW: A Killer Heartthrob Meets A Broken Family
‘Sa Aking Mga Kamay’ is an unexpectedly straightforward ride through a psychopath and a broken family. By upending familiar elements, it becomes a film that relishes in subversion within its commercial touches.
‘Adela’ REVIEW: The Elderly and Conflicted
Adela is both a movie of the neglected elderly and the ignored poor. In trying to coexist, they become accessory to a narrative that diminishes the staying power each side tries to offer.
‘Separada’ REVIEW: What all querida movies should be
Querida movies from the 90s onwards: take a step back and bow to your older, digitally restored sister 'Separada'.
‘Pagdating sa Dulo’ REVIEW: A star is born
Pagdating sa Dulo is Ishmael Bernal’s 1971 directorial debut, and it’s just as self-assured and uncompromising as the rest of his films would later turn out to be.