Reviews of the Bosch

Yesterday we counted down fourteen of the great movies of last year. Now onto the Top Ten! 10. All We Imagine as Light  -written and directed by Payal Kapadia Sometimes a movie that seems incidental just hits you in the right way. All We Imagine as Light  did that for me, and I expect I'm not the only one given its long list of accolades. But there is a shrewd power and radical streak to Payal Kapadia's deceptively mild film about the lives and struggles faced by three working-class women in Mumbai, each dealing with obligations or obstacles socially imposed on them, and each ultimately defying them in admittedly small but meaningfully symbolic ways. Kapadia illustrates well the sense of cultural isolation they experience as Malayali women in the melting pot of Mumbai, in a way that translates to those of us non-Indians not versed in its nuances. And she shoots the film in a fluid, documentary-like fashion that nonetheless makes room for moments of stark visual poetry, radiati...