Obsessed with Light (2023)
“Directors Sabine Krayenbühl and Zeva Oelbaum provide less an in-depth biography of the trailblazer’s life than a roving chronicle of her impact on the last 100-plus years of creative culture. ” –
Hyperallergic
Jan 23, 2025
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My Sweet Land (2024)
“"... [makes US viewers] reckon with the extent to which American ignorance — and indifference — to the conflict is a side effect of ’winning’ the Cold War."” –
Hyperallergic
Nov 11, 2024
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There Was, There Was Not (2024)
100%
“"... The women’s stories alert us to how fragile so many homelands continue to be ... [and] bring Artsakh’s history to the attention of the United States and other audiences with little or no knowledge of this embattled territory."” –
Hyperallergic
Nov 11, 2024
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The Ballad of Suzanne Césaire (2024)
“Merging the filmmaking process with snippets of the protagonist's life and words, "The Ballad of Suzanne Césaire" blurs distinctions between past and present.” –
Hyperallergic
Oct 21, 2024
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Onlookers (2023)
75%
“Immersive, beguiling, and productively unsettling, "Onlookers" confronts the power of the wealthy, predominantly White and Western tourist gaze to intrude on and warp its surroundings.” –
Hyperallergic
Oct 21, 2024
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Four Daughters (2023)
96%
“Inviting viewers to consider our own histories of misogyny — whether conscious or unwitting, expressed or internalized — "Four Daughters" blurs the distance between the personal and cultural, the individual and the systemic. ” –
Hyperallergic
Oct 21, 2024
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Problemista (2023)
86%
“Fans of Torres’s whimsical comedy will find much to love in his directorial debut, which takes a fantastical approach to depicting the very real trials of immigration and creative work.” –
Hyperallergic
Oct 21, 2024
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Swan Song (2023)
86%
“The dancers we grow to know (and love) in Swan Song are sweating, swearing, soaring women, at odds with conceptions of purity and frailness. ” –
Hyperallergic
Oct 17, 2024
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Look Into My Eyes (2024)
91%
“Uninterested in proving anything definitively, this film instead asserts the complicated humanity of psychic healers, their clients, and the practice itself. ” –
Hyperallergic
Oct 17, 2024
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Hummingbirds (2023)
100%
“"The coming-of-age documentary is as full of whimsy and joy as it is packed with clear-eyed resilience."” –
Hyperallergic
Oct 17, 2024
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Anselm (2023)
98%
“Collaborative in both spirit and methodology, "Anselm" is less an homage to an individual than an intense poetic dialogue between two visionary German artists.” –
Hyperallergic
Jan 23, 2024
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TAYLOR SWIFT | THE ERAS TOUR (2023)
99%
“Is this movie going to thrill the unconverted? I doubt it. But it’s not a bad excuse to sing along and dance with glittery strangers — something I think we all could do more of for the good of our ailing species.” –
Orlando Weekly
Oct 16, 2023
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Barbie (2023)
88%
“Barbie ultimately asks what it means to be mortal, what it means to be alive — and it takes these questions seriously.” –
Orlando Weekly
Jul 21, 2023
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Lynch/Oz (2022)
84%
““Lynch/Oz” would seem a must-see for fans of the yellow brick road or the Great Northern Hotel of “Twin Peaks.” If only.” –
Hyperallergic
Jul 3, 2023
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Little Richard: I Am Everything (2023)
94%
“Little Richard: I Am Everything honors the a-lot-ness that made him a 20th-century pioneer, while acknowledging the bumps along the trail he blazed.” –
Hyperallergic
Jun 26, 2023
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Victim/Suspect (2023)
79%
“"Victim/Suspect" exposes the extent to which women, conditioned to apologize for any inconvenience, are vulnerable to pressures to take the blame, and even serve time, for their own violent rapes.” –
Hyperallergic
Jun 26, 2023
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Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret. (2023)
99%
“It’s a soulful account of a story whose classic status is made all the more real by its resonance today. No matter your background, it’s a sweet, honest, moving movie. Period.” –
Metro Times (Detroit, MI)
May 3, 2023
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A House Made of Splinters (2022)
97%
“"A House Made of Splinters" bears witness not only to children’s ongoing trauma, but to their enduring ability to seek out and sustain their own support networks.” –
Hyperallergic
Mar 27, 2023
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Drylongso (1998)
100%
“Smith’s 1998 film exudes the DIY charm of a low-budget, first-time feature while keenly depicting the complexities of both race- and gender-related inequalities.” –
Hyperallergic
Mar 27, 2023
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The Rules of the Game (1939)
97%
“Jean Renoir’s newly restored 1939 classic proves that lawless wealth — then as now — makes a marvelous farce of us all.” –
Hyperallergic
Feb 17, 2023
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The Whale (2022)
64%
“To say this movie is heavy-handed is an understatement: Aronofsky and Hunter overtly spell out the terms of Charlie’s tragic decline and assign unambiguous moral virtues to virtually all the characters onscreen.” –
Metro Times (Detroit, MI)
Dec 28, 2022
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Daisies (1966)
88%
“With its recent 4k restoration, "Daisies" endures as a New Wave masterpiece and hyper-feminine smorgasbord of sensory pleasure.” –
Hyperallergic
Nov 14, 2022
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All That Breathes (2022)
99%
“"All That Breathes" is profoundly empathetic toward all living kind, compelling a radical reassessment of the boundaries many imagine exist between nature and civilization, along with the boundaries we insist on building between ourselves. ” –
Hyperallergic
Nov 14, 2022
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Stars at Noon (2022)
62%
“While the tropical swelter and urban detritus feel authentic enough — and surely sate the most ravenous of Denisian appetites for gritty foreign tumult — the director’s choice to adapt the novel’s plot to the present day feels a bit misguided.” –
Hyperallergic
Nov 10, 2022
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Don't Worry Darling (2022)
38%
“It is an uneven, but visually compelling, film whose emotional resonance rests on the square shoulders of Pugh, her generation’s answer Kate Winslet.” –
Metro Times (Detroit, MI)
Sep 30, 2022
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