Ancestral Visions of the Future (2025)
“The film’s memorable, strongly etched visual journey is amplified by the edgy sound design of Berlin-based composer Diego Noguera, which creates a kind of organ requiem out of clangs, screeches and howls.” –
Screen International
Mar 19, 2025
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1001 Frames (2025)
“The dramatic arc is not an arc at all, but a relentless, screw-tightening crescendo. ” –
Screen International
Mar 19, 2025
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How to Be Normal and the Oddness of the Other World (2025)
“A kind of cinematic graphic novel that navigates a deft tonal journey through humour, melancholy, romance, edgy drama and some trippy visual montages.” –
Screen International
Mar 17, 2025
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The Longing (2025)
“A big emotional arc breaks like a wave we never saw coming. Not much else is needed, except for a reticent, classically infused soundtrack of minor-key piano melodies, which suits the mood perfectly.” –
Screen International
Mar 17, 2025
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What Marielle Knows (2025)
“The rise of parental surveillance is turned on its head in this stylish, thought-provoking German comedy which runs engagingly with its high-concept premise without once lowering the bar.” –
Screen International
Mar 17, 2025
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Yunan (2025)
“ Those hungry for new auteurs may be curious to catch Yunan, a film which confirms Eldin has a real knack for cinematic mood painting.” –
Screen International
Feb 25, 2025
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Honey Bunch (2025)
“A delicious homage to the style and atmosphere of 1970s frighteners like Don’t Look Now or The Wicker Man. ” –
Screen International
Feb 19, 2025
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Blue Moon (2025)
96%
“Kaplow’s nuanced script, ably interpreted by Hawke, is as nimble as one of Hart’s own lyrics in shading from self-aggrandizement to self-mockery and self-pity in an instant, while preserving all the lyricist’s well-documented wit and brilliance.” –
Screen International
Feb 18, 2025
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Punching The World (2025)
“Punching The World lets itself get distracted by the minutiae of the life of two brothers in eastern Saxony -- and is all the richer for it. A fine ensemble cast is just one token of the care that clearly lies behind this empathetic film.” –
Screen International
Feb 18, 2025
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The Ice Tower (2025)
79%
“Utterly beautiful in every frame with a breakout lead performance by young French actress Clara Pacini.” –
Screen International
Feb 18, 2025
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No Beast. So Fierce. (2025)
“Contemporary relevance and a contemporary setting are two different things, and while it has the latter in great stylish measure, No Beast. So Fierce. struggles to make a case for why we need this spin on Richard III, right here, right now.” –
Screen International
Feb 15, 2025
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Marco (2024)
“The impressively internalised performance of veteran Spanish actor Eduard Fernandez as Marco, whose home-dyed hair and moustache become an objective correlative of his fakery, is matched by Nathalie Poza’s affecting turn as his devoted wife of many years.” –
Screen International
Sep 27, 2024
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Vittoria (2024)
“Although Vittoria is grounded in an intensely real place, there is a more than a touch of the fable about a story which is scripted with admirable efficiency, one in which single scenes speak volumes. ” –
Screen International
Sep 16, 2024
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Stranger Eyes (2024)
83%
“Stranger Eyes is a film that has its longueurs, especially as it drifts away from the tension of the missing child quest into something else entirely. But it’s never less than intriguing, even when it doesn’t all add up. ” –
Screen International
Sep 7, 2024
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The Time It Takes (2024)
“At its heart, The Time it Takes is a sentimental drama about a father-daughter rapport, one that is saved from schmaltz largely by its palpable passion for cinema and grounded performances from Fabrizio Gifuni as Luigi and Romana Maggiora Vergano.” –
Screen International
Sep 7, 2024
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Diva Futura (2024)
“Diva Futura presents Schicchi as a woman’s man, an elfin charmer who couldn’t be less wedded to the national cult of machismo -- and yet his brand of dreamy romanticism is, we realise, just another, more subtle form of patriarchal control.” –
Screen International
Sep 5, 2024
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Happy Holidays (2024)
“A globally resonant drama that will appeal to cineastes with a taste for tough, gritty, thought-provoking stories.” –
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Sep 5, 2024
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2073 (2024)
48%
“Does the alternation between documentary inserts and sci-fi superstructure work? Not always... But Kapadia and his co-scribe Tony Grisoni seem to understand that the pummelled audience can take only so much cinematic doomscrolling.” –
Screen International
Sep 3, 2024
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Wolfs (2024)
67%
“Pitt and Clooney sparkle in a self-aware action comedy that oozes New York noir stylishness. It’s a film that plays engagingly with the public perception of their rapport as one of joshing rivalry.” –
Screen International
Sep 3, 2024
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Nonostante (2024)
“One thing Feeling Better has going for it is a deft command of tone, managed not only through a script that takes a less-is-more approach to big emotional moments, but also through colour-coding and a supple use of natural light.” –
Screen International
Aug 28, 2024
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Death Will Come (2024)
“Dramatic tension is notably lacking in Death Will Come -- even the final shootout has its longueurs. Filling in the cracks is pure atmosphere.” –
Screen International
Aug 9, 2024
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Where Elephants Go (2024)
“A film with a sentimental story at its heart that is dragged back from schmaltz by its meta-cinematic probing of the stories we tell and the way we choose to tell them.” –
Screen International
Jun 14, 2024
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She's Got No Name (2024)
“Overseas play will be helped by its widescreen allure, the return of of Zhang Ziyi as a leading lady, and a script that flirts with sentimentality but also has some other more interesting moves.” –
Screen International
May 28, 2024
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Jim's Story (2024)
“Starring Karim Leklou, a seasoned character actor whose melancholic face recalls Peter Lorre, this is a touching melodrama of fatherhood that depicts a relentlessly nice guy who somehow walks wide-eyed into an emotional catastrophe.” –
Screen International
May 23, 2024
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Parthenope (2024)
45%
“There is no faulting the radiant performance of Celeste Dalla Porta in her feature debut. It's the objectification of her character that's the issue.” –
Screen International
May 21, 2024
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