'Til Madness Do Us Part (2013)
90%
3.5/4
“Tenderness is both an approach and a coping mechanism in ’Til Madness Do Us Part'. There’s compassion to be found in even the harshest of circumstances; it’s all about knowing where to look.” –
Slant Magazine
May 25, 2022
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Ahed's Knee (2021)
74%
“Nadav Lapid continues to take a scalpel to contemporary Israel in Ahed's Knee, although this particular dissection might leave a bigger scar.” –
Cinema Scope
Oct 8, 2021
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The Wild Goose Lake (2019)
91%
“While Chinese director Diao Yinan's The Wild Goose Lake hardly reconfigures the crime thriller afresh, it does pare it down to the essentials to exhilarating effect...” –
Sight & Sound
Feb 21, 2021
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The Inheritance (2020)
91%
“A playful, erudite, and boundary-blurring examination of what performing Black theory, literature, music, and testimony in a contemporary Philadelphia commune might set in motion.” –
Cinema Scope
Sep 18, 2020
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Just Don't Think I'll Scream (2019)
94%
“Essay film, documentary and collage; solitude, helplessness and anxiety: the personal and the collective; cinema itself-all are taken up, refracted, and bent back by the merciless flickering of the screen.” –
Cinema Scope
Feb 6, 2020
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143 Sahara Street (2019)
100%
“Hassen Ferhani's crowd-pleasing second feature is an example of a familiar format being executed with such intelligence and clarity that you wonder why it happens so rarely.” –
Cinema Scope
Sep 6, 2019
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Bacurau (2019)
93%
“With its messy clamour of contradictory voices, influences, and virtues that still somehow hold together, Bacurau's very composition seems to be echoing the feel of Brazil today.” –
Cinema Scope
Sep 5, 2019
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Longa noite (2019)
88%
“Enciso's unique contribution is the incorporation of landscape, across which history reverberates without leaving obvious traces.” –
Cinema Scope
Sep 5, 2019
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Alice T. (2018)
4
“While Alice is obviously meant to be inscrutable, the film itself has trouble keeping up with all the myriad changes to her stories and moods, with the doggedly external perspective on her actions increasingly hindering empathy and engagement.” –
Sight & Sound
Nov 14, 2018
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Ray & Liz (2018)
94%
“By turns brutal, tender and bleakly funny, this is an off-kilter, obliquely topical portrait of how grinding poverty begets dysfunction.” –
Sight & Sound
Nov 14, 2018
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The Most Beautiful Couple (2018)
86%
“Without the joys of coincidence and bad decision-making, The Most Beautiful Couple would barely have a plot, even if the film fails to commit to them sufficiently to go all-out trashy.” –
Cinema Scope
Sep 12, 2018
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Screwdriver (Mafak) (2018)
67%
“With Zid presumably meant as an exemplar of sorts, the story exudes a righteous anger which frequently curdles into over-directness.” –
Cinema Scope
Sep 11, 2018
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The Black Book of Father Dinis (2018)
86%
“[It] certainly offers enough pleasures for those looking to luxuriate in period trappings... [but] no single element of either form or content stands out sufficiently or forges the sort of link to now that might confer a greater urgency on the whole.” –
Cinema Scope
Sep 10, 2018
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Working Woman (2018)
98%
“Much like its protagonist, Michal Aviad's Working Woman appears to be in control until things get more complicated.” –
Cinema Scope
Sep 6, 2018
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L. Cohen (2018)
“Yet the all-pervasive stillness doesn't mean that nothing happens in L. Cohen.” –
Cinema Scope
Sep 6, 2018
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Transit (2018)
94%
“Christian Petzold's progressive drift away from realism gathers pace in Transit, another melodrama of impossibility and despair that unfolds in a hyper-constructed amalgam of past and present as unstable as it is seamless.” –
Cinema Scope
Sep 6, 2018
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Winter Flies (2018)
89%
“Its competent, strangely listless blend of genres fails to extract much urgency or specificity from any of them.” –
Cinema Scope
Sep 6, 2018
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Ash Is Purest White (2018)
99%
“Yet for all the different moods and registers that feed into the film, Jia's skill at modulating tone is such that all this heterogeneity still produces one single flow.” –
Cinema Scope
Jul 5, 2018
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Scarred Hearts (2016)
78%
“Nonetheless, the filmmaker's skill for the visual and the corporeal can't mask the sense of slight clumsiness that mars the opening half of this nearly two-and-half hour film.” –
Slant Magazine
Nov 21, 2017
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Home (2016)
60%
“Growing up can indeed be murder, but rendering this experience as literally and as stridently as it is here is both obvious and implausible.” –
Cinema Scope
Nov 15, 2017
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Soul on a String (2016)
89%
“When you're given so much time to look at the scenery, it helps when it's worth looking at.” –
Cinema Scope
Nov 15, 2017
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The Road to Mandalay (2016)
87%
“[Road to Mandalay] ends up instead as the oddly frustrating work of a director who clearly knows what he's doing but not what he actually wants to do.” –
Cinema Scope
Nov 15, 2017
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Marija (2016)
“Any sense of being immersed in real life is quickly dispelled by the artificiality of the dialogue and its often overemphatic delivery.” –
Cinema Scope
Nov 15, 2017
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Godless (Bezbog) (2016)
“There's nothing unusual about a debut feature suffering from formal hesitancy or thematic bluntness...But then that's the downside of the spotlight: it also highlights every single imperfection.” –
Cinema Scope
Nov 15, 2017
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Apprentice (2016)
85%
“Given its complete lack of non-essential components, there's nothing to anchor Apprentice in the mind once the plot has run its course.” –
Cinema Scope
Nov 15, 2017
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