And Their Children After Them (2024)
80%
“With lush cinematography and a throbbing 1990s-rock soundtrack, this sweet yet melancholic film establishes the Boukherma brothers as passionate chroniclers of their generation’s increasing sense of socioeconomic entrapment.” –
Frieze
Jan 3, 2025
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Bestiaries, Herbaria, Lapidaries (2024)
“As a whole, the film is as much a quiet condemnation of man’s extractivist attitudes as it is a cinematic dirge for humankind’s impending exit.” –
Frieze
Jan 3, 2025
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Babygirl (2024)
76%
“Highly refreshing... Kidman plays out kink scenes with a disarming mixture of vulnerability, hilarity and edginess.” –
Frieze
Jan 3, 2025
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The Brutalist (2024)
93%
“[The Brutalist] at times meandering and over-indulgent, misses the opportunity to illuminate how the architectural style emerged from the chaos and destruction of war. Nonetheless, the film is uplifted by Brody’s flinty performance.” –
Frieze
Jan 3, 2025
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Murina (2021)
91%
“Kusijanović articulates poignantly the heartbreak of familial love crudely bound up in the performance of power.” –
Reverse Shot
Mar 17, 2022
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The Power of the Dog (2021)
94%
“Campion handles such psychological denseness with virtuoso control, often whittling scenes to snippets of emotion and innuendo.” –
Hyperallergic
Dec 13, 2021
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The Woman Who Ran (2019)
98%
“More than any filmmaker of recent years, Hang-soo reminds his audience that such social performativity isn't without its perils.” –
Sight & Sound
Dec 5, 2021
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What Do We See When We Look at the Sky? (2021)
90%
“It's astounding how much fun Koberidze has with such a dire scenario.” –
Sight & Sound
Nov 13, 2021
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Întregalde (2021)
88%
“One need not have had any arduous alpine experience to appreciate the film's entertaining plot or Muntean's richly layered storytelling.” –
Reverse Shot
Oct 8, 2021
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Unclenching the Fists (2021)
88%
“The constant push-pull can at times seem like Kovalenko’s characters are wearing each other down, their lives one incessant wrestling match. However discomfiting, this wrangling is also riveting.” –
Reverse Shot
Oct 7, 2021
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Never Gonna Snow Again (2020)
95%
“Szumowska combines the social realism she's known for - marked by a dry, laconic tone - with a mystical plot.” –
Hyperallergic
Aug 3, 2021
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Nina Wu (2019)
81%
“In its desire to avoid cliches, Nina Wu skips over the more complex fallout of sexual trauma.” –
Hyperallergic
Aug 3, 2021
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Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn (2021)
90%
“Radu Jude's latest meets and defies all and any expectations in a flurry of comedy and porn.” –
MUBI
May 17, 2021
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Rocks (2019)
97%
“A compassionate, finely observed portrait of a young woman's gradual breaking down, as the usual buffers, including brotherly love and friendships, strain under her crushing responsibility.” –
Sight & Sound
Feb 14, 2021
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Goodbye, Dragon Inn (2003)
81%
“You'd never think a spacious, mostly empty movie theater could feel so tight.” –
Hyperallergic
Feb 8, 2021
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Song Without a Name (2019)
93%
“Its majestic, emotionally charged imagery, and stark vision of unredeemed humanity, are immensely engrossing.” –
Hyperallergic
Nov 17, 2020
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Extreme Private Eros: Love Song 1974 (1974)
“While navigating the relatively new terrain of their breakup, Miyuki is also politically invested in challenging traditional conceptions of women's roles at home and in Japanese society.” –
cléo
May 18, 2020
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Bacurau (2019)
93%
“Mendonça and Dornelles's film is... an attempt to grapple with unspeakable, horrifying evil -- but an evil that must be understood in social and historical rather than biblical terms.” –
Harper's Magazine
May 2, 2020
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Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema (2018)
94%
“Extensively researched and passionately told, at its best, Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema is a jazzy, Whitmanian hymn in praise of collective female genius.” –
Hyperallergic
Feb 27, 2020
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In a Lonely Place (1950)
96%
“In a Lonely Place isn't so much a straightforward thriller as it is a poignant psychological study of a person and a milieu, veiled as an atmospheric noir.” –
Hyperallergic
Feb 25, 2020
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Gun Crazy (1950)
91%
“The film may have been a quaint display of American decency and small-town folksiness were it not for the electrifying and darker, more complex presence of Cummins.” –
Hyperallergic
Feb 25, 2020
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Shirkers (2018)
99%
“An irresistible mix of insouciance and precocious maturity. Much of its charm lies in Tan's ironic irreverence as the film's narrator.” –
Hyperallergic
Feb 21, 2020
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Shakedown (2018)
100%
“A thrilling and also valuable film. The audience must take the imaginative leap and accept the contradicting identities that Weinraub presents, without insisting that they must cancel out.” –
Hyperallergic
Feb 18, 2020
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Spell Reel (2017)
“César poignantly captures the desire to free the image, or rather, to reactivate it by incorporating it into a broad historical narrative.” –
Hyperallergic
Feb 7, 2020
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The Cave (2019)
97%
“Acute sociological tension mingles with the physical and psychological terror of bombings and of the chemical attack.” –
Sight & Sound
Dec 3, 2019
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