Reflection in a Dead Diamond (2025)
70%
B
“It often looks beautiful, yet that beauty also has an ostentatious quality. Ultimately, it’s a case in point for how an impeccably styled arthouse-grindhouse crossover can feel both dense with signifiers to unpack, but also fleet, frothy and fun.” –
IndieWire
Mar 17, 2025
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Idiotka (2025)
82%
C+
“Popov is meditating on relevant themes, but what she diagnoses about the superficiality of the self-serving media and fashion worlds is already received wisdom, rather than the lethal satire she’s aiming for.” –
IndieWire
Mar 12, 2025
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You Burn Me (2024)
“You Burn Me cements Piñeiro as having one of the most far-reaching imaginations in current experimental film, beckoning us to follow even if he’s many intellectual steps ahead.” –
The Film Stage
Mar 7, 2025
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Blue Moon (2025)
96%
“Blue Moon is another beautifully personal work from Linklater, full of authorial idiosyncrasies and tics, but distinguishing the film from his corpus is it being the kind you can only make at a mature career stage.” –
The Film Stage
Feb 20, 2025
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Paul (2025)
B+
“It’s all just so wonderfully Québécois and alt-Montréal: the empowerment of letting your freak flag fly at full mast.” –
IndieWire
Feb 19, 2025
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The Ballad of Suzanne Césaire (2024)
B
“The Ballad of Suzanne Césaire aims to foreground its primary literary material and historical context, but instead directs more attention to its oneiric touches and environmental phenomena––the “wind in the trees,” so to speak.” –
The Film Stage
Oct 9, 2024
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Afternoons of Solitude (2024)
90%
B+
“We’re very sensitized to the constructed and artificial nature of documentary now, but Serra’s prime achievement here is to achieve an objectivity of perspective. ” –
The Film Stage
Oct 2, 2024
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Pavements (2024)
100%
A-
“Perry’s film, one of his most accomplished and complete-feeling to date, exists in both a past and conditional tense. It gives a brilliant précis of one of indie music’s most influential artists.” –
The Film Stage
Sep 4, 2024
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The Seed of the Sacred Fig (2024)
97%
B+
“The mere impact is palpable: that his movie stumbles from lucidity into ugly chaos and spontaneous fight-or-flight behaviors is right. ” –
The Film Stage
Aug 27, 2024
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By the Stream (2024)
100%
B+
“By the Stream is a bit of a comfortable cradle for bad men, for difficult men, who’ve faced opprobrium in the court of public opinion, but of course there’s nothing didactic about this.” –
The Film Stage
Aug 21, 2024
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To a Land Unknown (2024)
97%
B+
“With inspiration taken from the somber wave of ’70s American buddy movies, To a Land Unknown will comfortably endear itself to audiences, avoiding anything overly discursive so it can thrive provoking anger and pathos.” –
The Film Stage
May 22, 2024
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The Crime Is Mine (2023)
98%
B-
“There’s a self-satisfied tidiness to the script’s trajectory, although some darkly funny lines provide compensation.” –
The Film Stage
Dec 23, 2023
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Memory (2023)
85%
B+
“Chastain and Sarsgaard are just fantastic, and find an ideal emotional register for Franco’s dramatic somersaults.” –
The Film Stage
Sep 15, 2023
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The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial (2023)
95%
B+
“The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial is an action film with words, its cutting and command of space as sharp and rhythmic as the continuity edits splicing wides and close-ups in his car chases.” –
The Film Stage
Sep 12, 2023
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Coup de Chance (2023)
83%
B
“Rather pleasurable in and of itself: a parlor game for long-suffering Woodyheads to tick off the typical tics and reflexes while marveling at how consistent and industrious his story-construction skills (if not other literary faculties) remain. ” –
The Film Stage
Sep 8, 2023
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The Beast (2023)
86%
A-
“For what a discomforting and despairing experience much of The Beast is, when I’ve thought back to it, its moments of real, uncomplicated cinematic pleasure, its verve and sense of joyousness, are what mark my memories. ” –
The Film Stage
Sep 5, 2023
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Maestro (2023)
78%
B-
“[Bradley Cooper] certainly finds a savvy, timely angle to approach Bernstein’s story, with the attendant, large flaw that it actually writes its ostensible subject somewhat out of his own film. ” –
The Film Stage
Sep 3, 2023
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Terrestrial Verses (2023)
96%
B
“Through their concentrated and pared-down survey of institutional power, Asgari and Khatami show foremost how no behavior and social practice is spared the state’s gaze, and personal autonomy––especially for those outside the elites––remains only a myth.” –
The Film Stage
Jun 3, 2023
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Cobweb (2023)
74%
C+
“Whereas I Saw the Devil was relentlessly violent and mean-spirited, Cobweb has a softer heart, and fixates on sloppier ensemble staging and to-the-hilt acting performances to the detriment of Kim’s considerable skills with the camera.” –
The Film Stage
May 30, 2023
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Close Your Eyes (2023)
93%
B+
“Close Your Eyes is a walking-pace voyage in search of the self and the Other, not so far in its overall thrust from Paris, Texas, down to its theme of amnesia and transformative final act. ” –
The Film Stage
May 26, 2023
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Anatomy of a Fall (2023)
96%
B+
“It’s gratifying to see a new French filmmaker clearly informed by Arnaud Desplechin’s garrulous and dense literary-inflected dramas, and Anatomy of a Fall inspires the most of Triet’s output so far.” –
The Film Stage
May 23, 2023
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Pictures of Ghosts (2023)
100%
B+
“Mendonça Filho has made something with the social curiosity and playfulness of Varda and the sense-memory of Tsai’s Goodbye, Dragon Inn.” –
The Film Stage
May 20, 2023
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Under the Sky of Damascus (2023)
78%
B
“At the great risk of manipulating and endangering their trusted focal characters, they have created an unstable near-laboratory setting for their documentary, and the combustible results form shards of piercing insight. ” –
The Film Stage
Mar 2, 2023
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Disco Boy (2023)
88%
B-
“To Disco Boy’s credit, while its core themes and imagery are second-hand, it does attempt to build, expand on, perhaps modernize Beau Travail, not unlike Helena Wittmann’s recent Human Flowers of Flesh.” –
The Film Stage
Feb 22, 2023
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Perpetrator (2023)
80%
B
“Indebted to the two king Davids (Lynch and Cronenberg), it’s perfect to be viewed slightly sleepy-eyed at a late-night festival screening, where the refracted imagery and gnomic, repetitive dialogue can lull one into a half-oneiric state.” –
The Film Stage
Feb 18, 2023
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