Crossing (2024)
97%
5/5
“A loose road-movie that speaks with considerable profundity of the overlapping worlds in which it is set.” –
The Arts Desk
Jul 22, 2024
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The Ascent (1977)
100%
5/5
“What may sound simple in the retelling is infused with an existential complexity that could indeed have come from the pages of Dostoevsky.” –
The Arts Desk
Mar 1, 2022
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Verdict (2019)
100%
4/5
“The enduring presence in the film, which won the Horizons Special Jury Prize at Venice last year, is [Max] Eigenmann, her face speaking powerfully in its silent pain, one nevertheless coupled with a sense of endurance.” –
The Arts Desk
Apr 2, 2021
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Memories of My Father (2020)
84%
4/5
“Trueba's film is not devoid of sentimentality - indeed, visually, it might be said to exploit just such sweetness - but the inspiring example of his hero, a man who put his beliefs above his own life, is genuinely moving.” –
The Arts Desk
Apr 2, 2021
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My Father and Me (2021)
5/5
“For elegy becomes the dominant mood here, fitting at a personal level for a relationship that moved through antithesis to synthesis, towards mutual respect and closing understanding.” –
The Arts Desk
Mar 24, 2021
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Dear Comrades! (2020)
93%
4/5
“The effort is as intriguing as the drama is absorbing.” –
The Arts Desk
Jan 16, 2021
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The Wipers Times (2013)
88%
3/5
“Even fleshed out with free-standing cabaret-style sketches, at 90 minutes this sometimes felt as long as waiting for the war to end all wars itself to end.” –
The Arts Desk
Oct 11, 2020
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Monsoon (2019)
87%
4/5
“Hong Khaou has crafted a delicate study of displacement and loss, one that's all the more memorable for being understated.” –
The Arts Desk
Oct 8, 2020
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Welcome to Chechnya (2020)
100%
5/5
“The darkness was painfully visible throughout Welcome to Chechnya, but France somehow managed to close the film in light -- a beam, however tentative, however hesitant, that nevertheless shone through with affirmation.” –
The Arts Desk
Jul 2, 2020
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The Perfect Candidate (2019)
93%
3/5
“Five stars for the film's ensemble playing, fewer for the shaping of its wider canvas.” –
The Arts Desk
Apr 1, 2020
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The Truth (2019)
87%
4/5
“It comes with a generous dose of self-irony, one that's exemplified by Deneuve's rollickingly self-referential performance.” –
The Arts Desk
Mar 19, 2020
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And Then We Danced (2019)
93%
4/5
“The youthful cast of And Then We Danced bring a real feeling of life to its winning story: this is a film with a big heart.” –
The Arts Desk
Mar 11, 2020
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Meeting Gorbachev (2018)
86%
4/5
“Herzog may usher his subject through a kind of swansong lifetime achievement testimony, but Meeting Gorbachev is also a film about the dying of the light...” –
The Arts Desk
Nov 11, 2019
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By the Grace of God (2018)
96%
4/5
“Ozon follows the experiences of his protagonists directly rather than through the prism of a journalistic investigation, making the film a far more resonant and complex drama.” –
The Arts Desk
Oct 28, 2019
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Varda by Agnès (2019)
98%
4/5
“Varda defines the three words important to her in making films as "inspiration, creation, sharing", and Varda by Agnès is testament to her special talent in that last category.” –
The Arts Desk
Jul 19, 2019
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Donbass (2018)
88%
4/5
“Loznitsa has worked impressively with a broad, surely largely non-professional ensemble cast -- singling anyone out seems almost impossible -- to create a grim but gripping film.” –
The Arts Desk
Apr 29, 2019
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Boy Erased (2018)
80%
3/5
“Edgerton's direction is subtly unassertive and the playing excellent all round.” –
The Arts Desk
Feb 6, 2019
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Tehran Taboo (2017)
97%
4/5
“The immediate consolation that Tehran Taboo offers is aesthetic.” –
The Arts Desk
Oct 7, 2018
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Faces Places (2017)
99%
5/5
“This is a journey that celebrates a life richly lived as well as the human interaction, the delight in the sheer richness of humanity, that has always been inseparable from that existence.” –
The Arts Desk
Sep 20, 2018
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Wajib (2017)
100%
4/5
“Wajib may appear to have narrowed its horizons, but in burrowing down to the essentials, allowing detail to speak volumes, [Jacir] proves, resoundingly, that less can be far, far more.” –
The Arts Desk
Sep 17, 2018
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The Miseducation of Cameron Post (2018)
86%
“It's to the director's credit that Cameron Post is a film that plays down opportunities for obvious drama in favour of something much more considered, more reflective.” –
The Arts Desk
Sep 10, 2018
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Summer 1993 (2017)
100%
5/5
“It's a profoundly humanistic film, bringing home powerfully the sheer achievement of parenthood, as well as how the surrounding society comes through to show its implicit tolerance...” –
The Arts Desk
Jul 13, 2018
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My Friend Dahmer (2017)
85%
4/5
“Avoiding the sensationalism that would have come so easily, the skill with which Meyers varies the tone of My Friend Dahmer, as he takes us from humour to darkness and back again, is simply compelling.” –
The Arts Desk
Jun 4, 2018
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On Chesil Beach (2017)
67%
3/5
“On Chesil Beach has been a film of close sensitivity, in which Saoirse Ronan - musician that she is - plays never less than exquisitely.” –
The Arts Desk
May 21, 2018
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Inxeba (2017)
91%
4/5
“The director is so receptive to the power of images and intonations over words, and his spare style comes close to that of Dogma in its fluid, frequently handheld camerawork and a rigorous avoidance of external effects.” –
The Arts Desk
Apr 27, 2018
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