Restless (2024)
96%
3/5
“[Jed Hart] demonstrates flair as a visual storyteller, eschewing dialogue in long, atmospheric sequences (including the opener) that propel the narrative.” –
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Apr 4, 2025
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Misericordia (2024)
95%
5/5
“Guiraudie's regular cinematographer, Clare Mathon, endowed Misericordia with a stifling Bergman-esque atmosphere, its murky secret places redolent of Jérémie's psyche.” –
The Arts Desk
Apr 2, 2025
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On Falling (2024)
94%
5/5
“[Laura] Carreira is a minimalist with an eye and ear for evocative scenes and moments.” –
The Arts Desk
Mar 7, 2025
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Blitz (2024)
81%
3/5
“When would it not be timely? It gets its vital message across, despite being an unwieldy epic that forsakes character development for didacticism. ” –
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Nov 1, 2024
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The Old Man and the Land (2023)
3/5
“The Old Man and the Land tells a convincing story of a broken family, but the storytelling is infinitely stronger than the images, which become the visual equivalent of background noise. ” –
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Oct 3, 2024
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I Saw the 온라인카지노추천 Glow (2024)
84%
5/5
“Trans writer-director Schoenbrun’s film is an instant classic, a disquieting but non-judgmental post-modern psychothriller about the value and dangers of wholesale immersion in visual media and the complexities of trans self-identification.” –
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Jul 29, 2024
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Chuck Chuck Baby (2023)
100%
4/5
“Writer-director Pugh doesn’t conceal her rage at the inhumane ways some men treat women. Her movie is laced with delicate visual and aural flourishes rare in earthy, humour-tinged dramas about the travails of working-class women. ” –
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Jul 19, 2024
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Silver Haze (2023)
78%
4/5
“Silver Haze is exemplary in showing how first love is wondrous until it curdles and how young adults learn -- or don’t, at their peril -- to negotiate that disillusionment and make tough decisions.” –
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Apr 2, 2024
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The Promised Land (2023)
97%
4/5
“The movie’s moral shadings aren’t as subtle as Mikkelsen’s acting.” –
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Feb 19, 2024
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This Blessed Plot (2023)
100%
4/5
“It says a lot for Adam Ganz’s script and Isaacs’ ability to suspend disbelief for these contrived events that we grow to care for the characters.” –
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Jan 30, 2024
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Eileen (2023)
82%
5/5
“Hathaway and McKenzie make sweet music together throughout, even when it’s as discordant as Richard Reed Parry’s shrieking jazz score.” –
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Dec 4, 2023
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Tish (2023)
100%
4/5
“Paul Sng’s documentary Tish is one of the best British films of 2023 – both a heartfelt tribute to the life and work of the late photographer Tish (born Patricia) Murtha and a timely reminder of the war waged on the nation’s industrial working-class.” –
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Nov 18, 2023
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The Royal Hotel (2023)
89%
4/5
“Bolstered by Garner and Henwick’s astute portrayals of women with different sensibilities, Green again proves a sharp storyteller who doesn’t overburden the screen with symbols. ” –
The Arts Desk
Nov 2, 2023
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Typist Artist Pirate King (2022)
94%
4/5
“Macdonald’s sharp performance registers how wearying it can be providing companionship for someone whose consciousness is tuned to radio signals that are constantly being scrambled through no fault of their own.” –
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Oct 28, 2023
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Killers of the Flower Moon (2023)
93%
5/5
“Scorsese combines his sprawling crime thriller with an intimate mixed-race love story, one that curdles. This makes for a microcosmic approach to the Native American genocide that couldn’t be more wrenching.” –
The Arts Desk
Oct 20, 2023
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The Old Oak (2023)
82%
5/5
“In lieu of humor, The Old Oak champions empathy, unity, unconditional kindness, the exotic idea of communal sharing, the solidarity of ordinary people wherever they come from, a little hope. It’s a magical space in itself.” –
The Arts Desk
Sep 29, 2023
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A Year in a Field (2023)
4/5
“Not the least of the documentary’s strengths is the realisation that such a world is as sustainable as an unnamed insect, fragility personified, getting its fill on a leaf.” –
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Sep 21, 2023
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My Name is Alfred Hitchcock (2022)
93%
3/5
“As a primer on the master’s ingenious methods, My Name Is Alfred Hitchcock is a treat. Cousins should be applauded for his discretion: in showing over and over again how Hitchcock creates and defies expectations in scenes, he never reveals the outcomes.” –
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Jul 24, 2023
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Reality (2023)
94%
4/5
“Sydney Sweeney’s face in the harrowing docudrama Reality is an ever-evolving map, its contours and pallor altering as it gradually dawns on her character... that her conscience has put paid to her freedom for the foreseeable future.” –
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Jun 5, 2023
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Amanda (2022)
95%
4/5
“So empathetic is Benedetta Porcaroli’s portrayal of this emotional aggressor, however, that it’s difficult not to root for her. Especially if, per William Blake, one’s bag is eternal night rather than sweet delight. ” –
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Jun 5, 2023
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Pacifiction (2022)
88%
5/5
“Serra’s film isn’t a comedy, however, but a political thriller simultaneously languid and chilling. The languor emanates from its haziness, a quality paradoxically enhanced by Artur Tort’s fly-on-the-wall widescreen cinematography. ” –
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Apr 24, 2023
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In the Court of the Crimson King: King Crimson at 50 (2022)
95%
4/5
“An enthralling and often amusing experience. It’s also disconcerting if you labour under the illusion that the people who make the music you love enjoy each other’s company while they’re making it, perhaps forging spiritual bonds.” –
The Arts Desk
Apr 10, 2023
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In the Middle (2022)
83%
4/5
“Pondering what drives these apparently sane individuals to do such an onerous job, director-producer Greg Cruttwell's documentary is a vibrant study in diversity and concomitant prejudice that benefits from his light touch.” –
The Arts Desk
Apr 3, 2023
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Marcel the Shell with Shoes On (2021)
98%
4/5
“Charming animated tale of a bereft one-inch shell overdoes the sentiment.
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Feb 18, 2023
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January (2021)
88%
4/5
“Doomy it may be, but Paunov’s allegorical folk chiller is also a joy -- a playful grim fairytale that disturbs the imagination more than the viscera.” –
The Arts Desk
Feb 1, 2023
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