Wild Diamond (2024)
79%
“Wild Diamond is a promising but largely unsophisticated film, with Riedinger often making her very obvious themes even more explicit through dialogue.” –
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Mar 12, 2025
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Better Man (2024)
88%
“Taken as a standard music biopic, Better Man has standout moments...But none of this can fully compensate for the fact that Better Man strictly follows a rise-and-fall-and-resurrection path that we’ve seen charted by dozens of biopics.” –
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Dec 30, 2024
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The Girl With the Needle (2024)
92%
“The Girl with the Needle [is] effective but empty, an exercise in precision that never manages to rise above formal demonstration or make us truly care about its protagonist.” –
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Dec 4, 2024
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Union (2024)
89%
“The film rightly celebrates a glimmer of hope in an era of all-encompassing darkness, but with a bit more insight, it might’ve pointed the way toward future victories.” –
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Oct 17, 2024
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Rumours (2024)
75%
“[Rumours] has been filled by paranoia and repulsive glad-handing. This is both a rambling boardroom joke and the worst-ever season of M온라인카지노추천’s Real World: seven technocrats were lost in the woods, and you won’t believe what happened next!” –
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Oct 12, 2024
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Bird (2024)
86%
“Arnold is so besotted with her very particular image of Britain's urban poor that, despite her best intentions, Bird is classist and condescending.” –
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Sep 15, 2024
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Dahomey (2024)
99%
“In just over an hour, Diop provides viewers with a sharp, economical film essay about this problem, and does so within a fairly recognizable avant-doc form.” –
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Sep 11, 2024
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Hard Truths (2024)
95%
“Mike Leigh, one of cinema’s last great humanists, has chosen to remind us that bitterness consumes everything, and that it is impossible to love others until you find the strength to heal.” –
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Sep 10, 2024
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Drowning Dry (2024)
94%
“Bareiša seems like a director who will eventually make a very good film, but thus far he hasn't managed to get out of his own way.” –
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Aug 15, 2024
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Brief History of a Family (2024)
92%
“By the time Brief History drifts toward its strangely inconclusive finale, you might find yourself wishing that this particular history had been even briefer.” –
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Jul 24, 2024
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Jim's Story (2024)
“Jim’s Story offers no easy solutions, but does hold out a glimmer of hope that, in the end, selfless love will gain its due reward. ” –
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May 27, 2024
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My Sunshine (2024)
92%
“My Sunshine is the sort of middlebrow film that typically gains little traction outside of Japan, and if it does, it’s usually at showcases specifically devoted to recent Japanese fare.” –
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May 27, 2024
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In Retreat (2024)
“While In Retreat is a 75-minute film about a relatively aimless wanderer, it feels very confined, even hermetic. It’s unclear what Ali wants an audience to take away from In Retreat, other than perhaps admiring its frequently lovely cinematography.” –
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May 27, 2024
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The Shameless (2024)
57%
“The Shameless is a film that revels in degradation on the pretext that it’s exposing the ugly conditions under which impoverished women must eke out a living. ” –
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May 22, 2024
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The Invasion (2024)
100%
“The Invasion is an unambiguously patriotic statement that fully embodies the collective chant heard throughout the film.” –
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May 22, 2024
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Terrestrial Verses (2023)
96%
“Quite clearly influenced by [Roy] Andersson... Terrestrial Verses is a mosaic comprised of ordinary people whose paths have brought them face-to-face with institutional power.” –
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Apr 26, 2024
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Explanation for Everything (2023)
83%
“Not an equal opportunity satire... that’s not to suggest that Explanation for Everything is politically biased. It’s just rather half-assed, with Reisz taking the longest possible route to travel the shortest intellectual distance. ” –
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Apr 14, 2024
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The Permanent Picture (2023)
“The Permanent Picture is pleasant. It exemplifies restraint, avoids sentimentality, and even elicits a chuckle or two. But it does seem to be the product of an artist who, like Carmen, is still trying to find her own voice.” –
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Apr 11, 2024
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Coup de Chance (2023)
83%
“Watching Coup de Chance, it’s hard to remember that Woody Allen was once a skilled filmmaker.” –
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Apr 3, 2024
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Achilles (2023)
67%
“What makes Achilles so awkward is Delaram’s ambivalence regarding protest and resistance. The film is an odd mix of righteous anger and utter futility.” –
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Mar 22, 2024
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Banel & Adama (2023)
95%
“Neither strictly realistic nor overtly supernatural in its narrative approach, Sy’s film stages a conflict between two incompatible systems of belief. But it’s unusual in that neither worldview is privileged or validated.” –
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Jan 31, 2024
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Once Within a Time (2023)
94%
“Reggio’s latest film exhibits very little confidence in its images, and even less in its viewer.” –
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Oct 20, 2023
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The Shadowless Tower (2023)
88%
“But like the best “novelistic” films... The Shadowless Tower communicates complex states of being through framing, camera movement, and the accretion of detail over time.” –
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Oct 13, 2023
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Silver Dollar Road (2023)
82%
“In short, Silver Dollar Road, like many contemporary documentaries, adds very little to the print journalism they are based on.” –
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Oct 10, 2023
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Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person (2023)
90%
“Speaks to the current condition of international film production. For funding’s sake, everything is a genre film now, and rather than expanding on the language of horror, Humanist Vampire merely hits its marks and fades away.” –
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Sep 7, 2023
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