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The Last Showgirl (2024)
83%
“The sentiment of being thrown to the margins of an industry that seemed predestined to carry you is certainly an interesting point of departure, but the resulting film often feels stagnant.” –
Globe and Mail
Jan 13, 2025
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Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl (2024)
100%
“A cozy return to form that plaits together its own laboured conception and our mechanized conditions in order to enliven its signature duo among the youth of today.” –
Globe and Mail
Dec 28, 2024
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A Complete Unknown (2024)
82%
“In 2005, Mangold directed Walk the Line, a biographical drama about Johnny Cash, who also features in his latest effort. With A Complete Unknown, Mangold rinses and repeats his own musical biopic truisms.” –
Globe and Mail
Dec 19, 2024
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Small Things Like These (2024)
94%
“In lieu of sensationalizing the persecution of these young women, Small Things Like These compellingly casts its gaze onto the complicity of the community and the social architectures which uphold abuse.” –
Globe and Mail
Nov 7, 2024
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Bird (2024)
86%
“Adams delivers a great performance that is at times blunted by Rogowski’s typically peculiar and captivating comportment and Keoghan’s haywire antics.” –
Globe and Mail
Nov 7, 2024
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Close Your Eyes (2023)
93%
“Though this intricate scenario neatly develops upon its director’s catalogue, Close Your Eyes still feels singular and prodigious -- a film that works just as well for those unfamiliar with Erice, moving with the viewer to unveil its secrets.” –
Globe and Mail
Aug 22, 2024
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National Anthem (2023)
91%
“A tender and uncomplicated tale about a young man feeling through his sexuality after a troupe of queer ranchers take him under their wing.” –
Globe and Mail
Jul 15, 2024
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Last Summer (2023)
86%
“One can lodge the complaint that Last Summer is redundant, though Breillat’s aims differ significantly from el-Toukhy’s. The trouble lies instead with the inconsistency and loathsomeness of these aims.” –
Globe and Mail
Jul 1, 2024
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Monkey Man (2024)
89%
“Patel is not reinventing the wheel here, nor is he establishing a coherent visual language to build upon in future films, but Monkey Man is cleverly castigating and proud of its lineage – a digestible bit of mythmaking with knife work to boot.” –
Globe and Mail
Apr 4, 2024
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Seagrass (2023)
95%
“By deftly tugging at divorce narrative conventions and the slow erosion of a household, the film surveys the ways we curl inward in crisis.” –
Globe and Mail
Feb 19, 2024
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Sometimes I Think About Dying (2023)
82%
“The film’s intended unpleasantness can move from deadpan – at times reminiscent of Swedish director Roy Andersson’s austere and anemic images – to laborious or dispossessed of meaning.” –
Globe and Mail
Feb 7, 2024
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Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell (2023)
94%
“There’s a sophistication and assuredness which thins out in the second and third acts; as Thiện leans closer to his faith, he seems to pull away from, rather than expose himself to, the audience.” –
Screen Slate
Oct 3, 2023
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Crooklyn (1994)
79%
“An elegiac Bed-Stuy fairy tale.” –
Screen Slate
Mar 5, 2023
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Alcarràs (2022)
93%
“The film’s final beat is devastating, or potentially reassuring, as per the director’s ethos...” –
Cinema Scope
Feb 16, 2023
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Wendell & Wild (2022)
80%
3/5
“A pleasant, plotty resurrection with a superb soundtrack.” –
Little White Lies
Oct 28, 2022
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EO (2022)
96%
“Skolimowski has always had an affinity for the experimental, but suffusing a source text defined by its stolid exposition with feverish, latter-day concepts ... is as clever as it is blasphemous.” –
Screen Slate
Oct 16, 2022
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Funny Pages (2022)
82%
8.0/10
“The reverse pageantry of Owen Kline's directorial debut is the greatest kind of eyesore” –
Paste Magazine
Aug 31, 2022
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Nope (2022)
83%
8.5/10
“Nope is a spectacle in the least derogatory sense; a palimpsest of nostalgic blockbusters and Jordan Peele’s deservedly self-assured vision of Hollywood’s future.” –
Paste Magazine
Jul 22, 2022
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Flux Gourmet (2022)
85%
7.5/10
“Flux Gourmet has all the markings of a cult favorite: A hypnotic IBS fairytale that clogs the senses and wrinkles the mind.” –
Paste Magazine
Jul 15, 2022
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Who Slew Auntie Roo? (1972)
60%
“An exercise in hagsploitation and mommy issues (the two are seldom mutually exclusive), Preminger pastiche and folk-tale simplicity, <i>Whoever Slew Auntie Roo?</i> is a terribly good time.” –
Screen Slate
Jul 2, 2022
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Peau D'ane (1970)
89%
“A work so warmly assured that it eludes the parabolic quality of its source material, censuring nothing but laughing at everything.” –
Screen Slate
Jul 2, 2022
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Life Is Sweet (1991)
94%
“<i>Life Is Sweet</i> is packed with effusive beats and familial fractures, spackling over the cracks with chocolate and treacle-soaked spinach.” –
Screen Slate
Jul 2, 2022
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The Happiness of the Katakuris (2001)
69%
“A defibrillator to the brain, with slutty sumo wrestlers and rolling hills to boot.” –
Screen Slate
Jul 2, 2022
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Midnight (1982)
“It’s a horror film so mild as to inspire criticism on its own terms, but vexing enough to spook the censors all the same.” –
Screen Slate
Jul 2, 2022
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Sleepless (2001)
55%
“<i>Sleepless</i> sates our strangest urges.” –
Screen Slate
Jul 2, 2022
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