Skip to content

Contra Zoom Pod

Where we go back and forth about film.

  • Contra Zoom Pod
  • All Posts
  • Where To Listen
  • Contributors
  • Friends of CZP
  • Social Media
  • History
  • Contact Us

Category: Reviews

All written film reviews.

Reviews: Papaya from Berlinale 2026

February 26, 2026

Final Rating: 3.5/5 A citrus-colored summer radiates from the screen in any viewing of Papaya, the wordless, cheerfully animated feature debut from Brazilian writer…

Continue Reading

Reviews: Song Sung Blue – Physical Release

February 20, 2026

Final Rating: 3.5/5 Blu-Ray Recommendation: Recommend Song Sung Blue is the latest film from Craig Brewer who has made a career out of musical…

Continue Reading

Reviews: Somersault – Restoration

February 19, 2026

Final Rating: 3/5 Cinema is an industry that shifts quickly. Your reputation and career status depend on a film. In the modern era, impressive…

Continue Reading

Reviews: Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die

February 13, 2026

Final Rating: 4/5 At the start of Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die, a man (Sam Rockwell) bursts through the doors at Norm’s Diner…

Continue Reading

Reviews: La Grazia

February 12, 2026

Final Rating: 3.5/5 In La Grazia, the latest film from Italian director Paolo Sorrentino (Parthenope), Tony Servillo stars as Mariano De Santis, the outgoing…

Continue Reading

Reviews: Nadja – Restoration

February 5, 2026

Final Rating: 3/5 In the 1990s, the landscape of the American cinema provided audiences with a variety of film offers, including a varied production…

Continue Reading

Reviews: Scarlet

February 4, 2026

Final Rating: 2.5/5 Mamoru Hosoda takes his interpretation of William Shakespeare’s Hamlet into the Otherworld, a life after death that offers a wealth of…

Continue Reading

Reviews: Cosmic Princess Kaguya!

January 30, 2026

Final Rating: 3/5 In the classic Japanese fairytale “The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter,” a bamboo cutter finds a tiny baby girl in a…

Continue Reading

Reviews: Paying For It

January 28, 2026

Final Rating: 4/5 Ed. note: read our original reviews of Paying For It from TIFF and VIFF. The contrasts in Paying For It start…

Continue Reading

Reviews: Mother of Flies

January 22, 2026

Final Rating: 2.5/5 Beware the law of unintended consequences… Folk has a long and storied history in the horror genre, and Mother of Flies,…

Continue Reading

Posts pagination

1 2 … 33 Next

Categories

Recent Posts

  • 326: 2026 Oscar Draft
  • Reviews: Papaya from Berlinale 2026
  • 325: Marty Frankenstein The Train Agent
  • Reviews: Song Sung Blue – Physical Release
  • Reviews: Somersault – Restoration
Copyright Contra Zoom Pod. All rights reserved. | Theme by SuperbThemes