Joonatan is a queer, autistic freelance writer, film juror, and member of FIPRESCI, GALECA, the European Film Academy, the International Film Society Critics Association, the Online Film & Television Association, and the Finnish Critics Association.
AMERICAN PICKLE, directed by Brandon Trost from a screenplay and short story by Simon Rich, is surprisingly not what it says on the tin. On the surface, you’d expect
This film terrified me in ways I didn’t expect.
It’s a folktale, a horror story, a cautionary fable, and a biblical parable rolled into one. There’s very
Greenland is what happens when the most sheltered people imaginable write a disaster film.
It’s a one-percenter survival fantasy, released into a global pandemic where the white upper
Justin McConnell’s film is highly personal, which means this review must be as well. On a purely objective level there’s very little to say about a personal portrait
