The Penguin Lessons (2024)
80%
“As Michell’s housekeeper, Vivian El Jaber turns in a performance that blossoms with the story.” –
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Mar 14, 2025
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Shoplifters (2018)
99%
“The actors, young or old, transform themselves fully to make what some may regard as their “unexamined lives” worth living, worth recounting, and for observers, worth admiring for their internal fortitude, honesty, and resulting sagacity.” –
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Feb 25, 2025
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The Room Next Door (2024)
81%
“The actors so fully enrich the medium they are handed that despite what’s missing from the script, the viewer feels bountifully satisfied when the credits roll.” –
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Jan 13, 2025
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Porcelain War (2024)
95%
“The camera shows us how art and self-defense come together among artists and their neighbors. ” –
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Jan 6, 2025
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Daddio (2023)
76%
“Penn delivers one of his finest characterizations as he awakens Clark from his hubris to discover that there’s still more to learn from the arena where the battle of the sexes settles scores. ” –
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Jun 25, 2024
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Farewell, Mr. Haffmann (2022)
100%
“Fred Cavayé offers up a glimpse of how the workings of fascism sort moral fiber.” –
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May 29, 2024
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Shayda (2023)
97%
“This film's appeal is in the manner of its telling, with swells and ebbs that make for the small tempests that are the blight of everyday domesticity.” –
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Mar 9, 2024
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I Went to the Dance (1989)
“Go see I Went to the Dance. Besides extending a cat’s paw onto the levee of regional musicology, there’s lots to learn in both French and English about life in Texas and Louisiana farm country. Tapping toes make the 84 minutes fly by.” –
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Sep 8, 2023
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The Eternal Memory (2023)
92%
“It showcases a photographic method that can make the viewer feel like part of the cast. The editors are generous.” –
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Aug 10, 2023
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20 Days in Mariupol (2023)
100%
“Before-and-After footage unfurls a Mariupol that could have been any picturesque town in Europe.” –
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Jul 26, 2023
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Dalíland (2022)
43%
“Christopher Briney deserves a better, more layered character.” –
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Jun 7, 2023
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The Lost Daughter (2021)
94%
“Though the story is Ferrante's, Gyllenhaal has already been richly rewarded for a script that requires no grandiose budget, and a film that relies primarily on a sharp eye and willingness to go where no one else dares to.” –
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Jan 6, 2022
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Passing (2021)
91%
“The problem here is that you can't burden four or five weightless characters, however complicated their relationships may become, with conferring meaning to a story that resists definition in favor of licking superficial wounds.” –
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Nov 18, 2021
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Promising Young Woman (2020)
90%
“Given the message-burdened first-time script, the actors do justice to their most predictable characters, crafted by Fennell to mirror predictable viewers' predictably puzzled responses.” –
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Nov 4, 2021
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Waging Change (2019)
“The film tells a semi-clandestine story that it is important to bring to light.” –
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Feb 2, 2021
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Some Kind of Heaven (2020)
93%
“In the unlikely event that there's an overabundance of merriment in your life under COVID, and nobody in your pod is complaining enough, you might want to see "Some Kind of Heaven.” –
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Jan 15, 2021
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The White Crow (2018)
68%
“It's hard to imagine that Fiennes, with his concern about the look of the film, would settle for a tabloid version of the character, yet in the end, that is what audiences are left with.” –
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May 9, 2019
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Who Will Write Our History (2018)
94%
“If the phrase "History is written by the victors" has become a truism, here is the film that takes the would-be victor, fascism, and transforms its own records and documents into a mirror of its perfidy.” –
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Mar 23, 2019
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The Cakemaker (2017)
97%
“There is no word in our lexicon for the conundrum so tenderly and lovingly, yet truthfully plated in The Cake Maker, not one, not one hundred.” –
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Mar 1, 2019
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Stan & Ollie (2018)
93%
“It bubbles with imaginative comic energy.” –
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Jan 17, 2019
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Birds of Passage (2018)
96%
“Birds of Passage is a true story and a compelling one.” –
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Oct 19, 2018
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Museo (2018)
87%
“There are so many ways in which this twice-as-smart-by-half plan can go sideways that it's worth seeing the film just to see whether your guess corresponds to the actual one.” –
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Oct 11, 2018
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Three Identical Strangers (2018)
96%
“Your blood may run cold, but you now find yourself pinioned to the story.” –
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Jul 9, 2018
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The Seagull (2018)
68%
“Saoirse Ronan has a face like a weather system, where each tempest in a teapot, gust of excitement, guilty pleasure or expectation, shows up in a blush of heat across her freckled cheek.” –
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May 15, 2018
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1945 (2017)
97%
“There are few films that take up the fortunes of European Jewish survivors in the aftermath of World War II. This one is a welcome addition to the theme of recuperation and restitution.” –
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May 7, 2018
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