Anatomy of a Fall (2023)
96%
“Triet’s movie is built on the central concept of what we interpret from what we see and hear -- the cinema’s essential elements -- establishing the foundation of what we then perceive as “the truth.”” –
Cineaste Magazine
Feb 29, 2024
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The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021)
93%
“The movie completely loses whatever energy it had to begin with when McDormand exits, because she was bringing the thrust and momentum of pure anger to the drama.” –
Cinema Scope
Feb 17, 2023
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Nope (2022)
83%
“This final confrontation is truly a spectacle...” –
Cinema Scope
Feb 16, 2023
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Dual (2022)
71%
“Riley Stearns’ clone-in-existential-crisis drama Dual suffers from both lazy storytelling and having been beaten to the punch on its high concept by the Mahershala Ali-starring Swan Song.” –
Cinema Scope
Aug 2, 2022
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All That Breathes (2022)
99%
“Sen takes the chaotic world on its own terms, and quietly uncovers a rich metaphor in the bird's tenacity: somehow, even in this place, life can thrive. ” –
Cinema Scope
Aug 2, 2022
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Riotsville, USA (2022)
91%
“The film's chronicle acts as a severe indictment of the country and what it owes the people it enslaved—in one form or another—since 1619...” –
Cinema Scope
Aug 2, 2022
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The Cathedral (2022)
96%
“The viewer is asked to be as observant to details, to furtive gestures and to shades of meaning, as D’Ambrose is in adapting his own family story, making The Cathedral a genuinely radical act.” –
Cinema Scope
Aug 2, 2022
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Living (2022)
96%
“Living is above all a work of dramatic writing at the highest level, as well as a master class in how to adapt—and improve!—a fine original screenplay from one cultural setting to another. ” –
Cinema Scope
Aug 2, 2022
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Emergency (2022)
91%
“Erratically structured as both thriller and comedy, Carey Williams’ Emergency has all the earmarks of being both a Jordan Peele wannabe and a calling-card project for Hollywood, and pulls off neither.” –
Cinema Scope
Aug 1, 2022
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I'll Be Your Mirror (2022)
46%
“Bradley Rust Gray’s blood surely ranked as the most notable failure of all, a lugubrious slice-of-life...” –
Cinema Scope
Aug 1, 2022
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Ikiru (1952)
98%
“Sadness, inside a story of how a single man changes the course of his remaining days, has rarely been expressed with such grace and beauty.” –
Cinema Scope
Aug 1, 2022
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The Tsugua Diaries (2021)
78%
“For this viewer, these images of nocturnal dancing are already becoming the iconic ones of the pandemic: silhouetted bodies in motion, resisting entropy and a destructive virus, fighting back the only way they know how. Working it, with joy.” –
Cinema Scope
Oct 8, 2021
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Nomadland (2020)
93%
“Nomadland the movie gets lost in its own drift, and, simply, drops off the map.” –
Cinema Scope
Jul 13, 2021
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The Ballad of Esequiel Hernandez (2007)
100%
“Wide range of interviewed witnesses, legal and investigative experts is impressive, as is the depth of the pic's human portraits.” –
Variety
Oct 19, 2020
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Out Rage '69: The Question of Equality (1995)
“The closeted, forcibly hidden lives of homosexual men and women before the 1960s is briefly but powerfully documented by Arthur Dong.” –
Los Angeles Times
Jun 9, 2020
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Noah's Arc: Jumping the Broom (2008)
42%
“The blandly staged film misses a great opportunity to draw insightful and memorable character portraits of the kind virtually ignored in mainstream moviemaking.” –
Variety
May 22, 2020
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An Officer and a Spy (2019)
76%
“The results are not just to thrust the past to the present, but to envelop the viewer in the thinking that defined that past.” –
Cineaste Magazine
May 22, 2020
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Forbidden City, USA (1989)
100%
“Dong's film gracefully shows how one semi-underground club brought all manner of American contradictions to the surface.” –
Los Angeles Times
May 1, 2020
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Parasite (2019)
99%
“When the history of this moment in world cinema is written, Parasite will take its place as the movie that got the moment right.” –
Cineaste Magazine
Feb 25, 2020
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The Irishman (2019)
95%
“Zaillian (and most likely Scorsese, in concert with his abiding editor Thelma Schoonmaker) structures The Irishman along three tracks of time that wind in and out of each other.” –
Cinema Scope
Feb 7, 2020
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Mariam (2019)
“This is potentially the stuff of a great movie. Mariam, however, isn't even remotely great, and at times it's far less than it should be.” –
Cinema Scope
Sep 8, 2019
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Synonymes (2018)
87%
“Mercier projects a feral intensity, a boundless energy that's frightening in its freedom, something that possibly comes from a young artist who doesn't recognize the conventional codes of movie acting, or any kind of acting” –
Cinema Scope
Sep 6, 2019
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Instinct (2019)
80%
“Instinct is a serviceable entry on the actor's resume, but, as a credible psychodrama that pits a therapist against her imprisoned patient, it does a disservice to just about everyone else.” –
Cinema Scope
Sep 6, 2019
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Krabi, 2562 (2019)
86%
“In each work, the interwoven layers of storytelling grow more complex, time signatures slip and shift, a Buddhist reality explodes in the viewer's sensibilities, and the quiet tone of the surface belies a puckish humor...” –
Cinema Scope
Sep 5, 2019
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The Souvenir (2019)
90%
“Hogg achieves a balance of aggressive stylistic tropes, expert storytelling control, and a careful courting of audience engagement that suggests a way forward for contemporary narrative cinema.” –
Cinema Scope
Jul 15, 2019
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