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- A member of the Online Film Critics Society, Christopher Bourne is a senior reporter for Meniscus Magazine. He is a writer and incurable cinephile living in New York City.
![After their Cormac McCarthy adaptation No Country for Old Men, and its attendant raft of rapturous critical notices and multiple Oscars, the Coen Brothers returned to high farcical mode with […]](https://www.meniscuszine.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/Burn-After-Reading-115x115.jpg "Review: Joel and Ethan Coen’s “Burn After Reading”")
![Repast (1951), Mikio Naruse’s first adaptation of the work of celebrated Japanese novelist Fumiko Hayashi, is one of his very finest films, a deceptively simple examination of a troubled marriage, told […]](https://www.meniscuszine.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/Repast-2-115x115.png "Review: Mikio Naruse’s “Repast”")
![Bruno Dumont’s 2006 film, Flanders, a return to form after his failed US-set experiment, Twentynine Palms, returned Dumont to his familiar milieu of raw sex and violence told with […]](https://www.meniscuszine.com/wp-content/themes/arras/images/thumbnail.png "Review: Bruno Dumont’s “Flanders”")
![Yelling to the Sky, actress-turned-director Victoria Mahoney’s debut feature, immediately sets up what we’re in for in its very first scene, that of its protagonist Sweetness (Zoe Kravitz) being beaten […]](https://www.meniscuszine.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/tumblr_lqisrzFPHD1qlaxkn-115x115.jpg "Review: Victoria Mahoney’s “Yelling to the Sky”")
![The opening moments of Scorsese’s first feature (1967) encapsulate the iconography/obsessions that would inform the rest of his career. Over sharp booming sounds that reverberate like the hand of God, […]](https://www.meniscuszine.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Knocking-at-My-Door-115x115.jpg "Review: Martin Scorsese’s “Who’s That Knocking at My Door”")
![In an early scene in Secret Sunshine, a pharmacist is attempting to persuade Shin-ae (Jeon Do-yeon), a widowed piano teacher who has come to the town of Miryang with her […]](https://www.meniscuszine.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/secret-sunshine-poster-115x115.jpg "Film Review: Lee Chang-dong’s “Secret Sunshine”")
![Lee Yoon-ki’s third feature Ad-Lib Night (2006), based on a short story by Japanese author Azuko Taira, is an intimate and beautifully observed drama which takes place, as per the title, […]](https://www.meniscuszine.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Ad-Lib-Night-1-115x115.jpg "Review: Lee Yoon-ki’s “Ad-Lib Night”")
![Successful film director Joong-rae is struggling to come up with a scenario for his latest film. Feeling blocked and needing a quiet place to write, he travels from Seoul to […]](https://www.meniscuszine.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Woman-on-the-Beach-115x115.jpg "Review: Hong Sang-soo’s “Woman on the Beach”")
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