Favoriten (2024)
100%
4/5
“As recent school-set movies such as Un Film Dramatique (2019) and Mr Bachmann and His Class (2021) have demonstrated, classrooms can act as near-perfect microcosms of society at large. ” –
Little White Lies
Dec 11, 2024
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EO (2022)
96%
“It's a film that doesn't look back so much as point the way forward.” –
Cinema Scope
Aug 1, 2022
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Fabian: Going to the Dogs (2021)
92%
“Known primarily as a genre director, Graf applies his flair for dynamic storytelling and dazzling set pieces to Kästner’s uniquely autobiographical, character-driven novel.” –
BFI
Feb 11, 2022
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Fauna (2020)
90%
“Fauna is a resolutely sly and humorous film, especially in these introductory scenes where the chemistry between the actors... is free to spark in moments of both casual conversation and unspoken discomfort.” –
Cinema Scope
Sep 15, 2020
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I Was at Home, But (2019)
88%
“There's no denying the boldness of [I Was at Home, But...]-fractured, elliptical, and highly mannered, the film hardly betrays Schanelec's ideology.” –
Film Comment Magazine
Feb 19, 2020
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Vitalina Varela (2019)
95%
“[Vitalina Varela] invests a tragic episode in its heroine's life with an intimacy and grace that forges new dimensions in Costa's cinema.” –
Film Comment Magazine
Feb 19, 2020
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Wilcox (2019)
“Opening up space for thought and reflection on a well-worn subject, Wilcox quietly bears witness to a life that, in a lesser filmmaker's hands, might have been deemed worthy of interest only if it ended in premature death.” –
Cinema Scope
Jan 17, 2020
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Zombi Child (2019)
85%
“Bonello sets up an array of contrasts between black and white, past and present, life and death, rural and urban, creating a provocative dialectic that suggests that the colonialist spirit never truly faded, but only assumed new forms.” –
Cinema Scope
Sep 6, 2019
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Martin Eden (2019)
88%
“With the unexpected scope and audacity of his latest, Marcello proves that he has no intention of resting on his laurels.” –
Cinema Scope
Sep 5, 2019
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The Dead Don't Die (2019)
54%
“Despite the range of personalities, the film is ultimately stronger in theme and style than character, more substantial in its diagnosis of human folly than its detached depiction of small-town life.” –
Reverse Shot
Jun 14, 2019
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High Life (2018)
83%
“Surely one of the most singular and uncompromising films of its kind.” –
Reverse Shot
Oct 12, 2018
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Prototype (2017)
100%
“With Prototype Williams has achieved a holistic union of his own that speaks at once to the transformative power of the moving image and the oceanic force of its full deployment. Goodbye to language, indeed.” –
Reverse Shot
Sep 6, 2018
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Cold War (2018)
92%
“For all his allusions to the contrary, [director Pawe] Pawlikowski may be contemporary cinema's foremost metteur en scène.” –
Cinema Scope
Sep 6, 2018
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Hotel by the River (2018)
96%
“Hong's latest confirms a nascent sorrow in this increasingly complicated director's work. The results are troubling, touching, and never less than beautiful.” –
Cinema Scope
Sep 6, 2018
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Rams (2015)
95%
“Rams is the kind of film whose evident craft belies its lack of adventurousness; its virtues are mostly predictable, its revelations far from revelatory as it plods inexorably from one situational hurdle to another.” –
Cinema Scope
Nov 10, 2017
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The Assassin (2015)
80%
“The pictorial beauty of this scene is self-evident; it's in Hou's painstaking orchestration of each component part and the thematic weight imparted by their careful configuration that lends the film a steadily increasing romantic gravitas.” –
Cinema Scope
Nov 10, 2017
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Mekko (2015)
“An agreeable if unremarkable work of indigenous realism whose familiarity of form is ably offset by the singularity of its milieu.” –
Cinema Scope
Nov 10, 2017
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Mustang (2015)
97%
“Mustang immediately stands out amidst the largely male-dominated efforts of contemporary cinema, its concerns distinctly feminine in constitution, its context specific in circumstance yet universal in scope.” –
Cinema Scope
Nov 10, 2017
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Sieranevada (2016)
92%
“With little hierarchal order to the proceedings--but with distinct delineations between national, political, and theological dispositions--the film manages to hold everyone accountable.” –
Cinema Scope
Nov 10, 2017
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The Red Turtle (2016)
93%
“With nary a word, The Red Turtle manages to speak in lofty, unconvincing tones.” –
Cinema Scope
Nov 10, 2017
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My Life as a Zucchini (2016)
99%
“Charmingly homespun, the stop-motion animation is intricate and expressive, allowing the kids' unique personalities to shine forth from their petite frames and oblong heads.” –
Cinema Scope
Nov 10, 2017
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Dog Eat Dog (2016)
52%
“This is cinema that answers to nothing but itself.” –
Cinema Scope
Nov 10, 2017
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After the Storm (2016)
96%
“After the Storm gathers a cumulative force that's easy to discount, but its melancholy effects, like those that define Kore-eda's most substantial recent efforts, are potent enough to linger in the mind.” –
Cinema Scope
Nov 10, 2017
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Bright Nights (Helle nächte) (2017)
17%
“It's as much a landscape film as a character study, as prone to lingering on the subtle expressions of its actors as it is willing to retreat from the primary narrative to proceed without consequence up a fog-enshrouded mountain road.” –
Cinema Scope
Nov 10, 2017
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The Other Side of Hope (2017)
92%
“The Other Side of Hope proves to be one of the Finnish veteran's most impressive balancing acts, a tragicomedy that feels urgent and yet manages to never lose sight of life's inherent ironies.” –
Cinema Scope
Nov 10, 2017
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