Invention (2024)
94%
2.5/4
“Courtney Stephens’s film blends fiction and autobiography to fascinating implications.” –
Slant Magazine
Apr 13, 2025
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Direct action (2024)
3/4
“We sorely need documentaries like Direct Action that can show not only the real leverage that militant mass movements can exert, but how that power can be redirected from protest to the building of autonomous communities and back again.” –
Slant Magazine
Apr 6, 2025
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The Assessment (2024)
82%
2.5/4
“The Assessment works its way through intriguing conundrums about the motivations and qualifications of parenthood, as well as the power dynamics at play between parents and children.” –
Slant Magazine
Mar 17, 2025
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You Burn Me (2024)
3/4
“Matías Piñeiro’s film is an intimate, impressionistic meditation on love and desire, death and memory, silence and expression.” –
Slant Magazine
Mar 3, 2025
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The Empire (2024)
57%
2/4
“Notable as it is for evoking a kind of cosmic banality, writer-director Bruno Dumont’s anti-space opera The Empire runs into same the pitfall as many parodies of its kind.” –
Slant Magazine
Feb 26, 2025
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Bring Them Down (2024)
90%
2.5/4
“Even though Bring Them Down tells two sides of a story, those sides aren’t as counterposed as they might seem, leaving other facets of the narrative geometry turned to the side and feeling underserved.” –
Slant Magazine
Feb 2, 2025
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Oceans Are The Real Continents (2023)
100%
3.5/4
“With the film, Tommaso Santambrogio puts neorealism in the service of dream.” –
Slant Magazine
Jan 6, 2025
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Dream Team (2024)
2.5/4
“Dream Team’s absurdist brand flirts with an art-for-art’s-sake disengagement: the meaningless void as light entertainment, yet another opportunity for burying our heads in the sand.” –
Slant Magazine
Nov 12, 2024
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La Cocina (2024)
75%
2.5/4
“La Cocina goes further than recasting the American dream as a nightmare and the much sought-after visa as a ticket to infinite exploitation.” –
Slant Magazine
Oct 22, 2024
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Daaaaaali! (2023)
95%
3/4
“Quentin Dupieux melts the frames that separate dream, film, and reality until they become one plate of tangled spaghetti. ” –
Slant Magazine
Sep 30, 2024
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Caught by the Tides (2024)
97%
3/4
“Jia Zhang-ke’s Caught by the Tides attests to the fact that making art under the most adverse conditions can prove to be serendipitous.” –
Slant Magazine
Sep 20, 2024
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Meanwhile on Earth (2024)
81%
2/4
“The overbearing plot of the film sadly obscures the humanity of its characters.” –
Slant Magazine
Sep 11, 2024
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Mountains (2023)
97%
3/4
“Mountains interprets leisure not so much as the opposite of work or struggle, but a stance that can and should suffuse each moment of life, not discounting those we sell to make a living.” –
Slant Magazine
Aug 11, 2024
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Coup! (2023)
81%
2/4
“The film has little to add on the subject of the interplay of politics and infectious disease, then or now.” –
Slant Magazine
Jul 30, 2024
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Crossing (2024)
97%
2.5/4
“Crossing is never less than nobly intent on showing trans people as worthy of dignity, safety, and love.” –
Slant Magazine
Jul 15, 2024
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Mother, Couch (2023)
41%
2.5/4
“Other than a sort of wistful quirkiness, it’s not clear what Mother, Couch gains by skewing away from a more straightforward, streamlined family drama.” –
Slant Magazine
Jun 30, 2024
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Family Portrait (2023)
95%
3/4
“Family Portrait stands out for its profound mistrust, not just of images but of the sense of sight altogether.” –
Slant Magazine
Jun 24, 2024
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Sweet Dreams (2023)
100%
3/4
“The film captures the putrefaction of colonial rule with a morbid sense of humor.” –
Slant Magazine
Apr 7, 2024
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Omen (2023)
86%
2.5/4
“The patchwork structure is suited to the complexity a setting where characters switch between languages depending on who they want to keep in the dark. Yet it’s hard to shake that there are too many threads for a film of this length to do them justice.” –
Slant Magazine
Apr 7, 2024
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Limbo (2023)
91%
3/4
“The cinematography solidifies the film’s status as a noir grappling with corruption and probing moral grey areas, while at the same time echoing visually the stark divisions between white and Indigenous people in Australian society.” –
Slant Magazine
Mar 17, 2024
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Club Zero (2023)
65%
3/4
“No matter where audiences sit on the political spectrum, they’re liable find something discomfiting, if not enraging, in the film.” –
Slant Magazine
Mar 9, 2024
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She Is Conann (2023)
84%
3/4
“Decadent, hermetic, and gleefully hostile to realism, Bertrand Mandico’s film is the cinematic equivalent of a French Symbolist poem.” –
Slant Magazine
Jan 28, 2024
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Skin Deep (2022)
96%
3/4
“Though as fresh and conceptually far-reaching as a David Cronenberg film, it traffics in body ambivalence more than body horror, striking an eerie, wistful tone.” –
Slant Magazine
Jan 28, 2024
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They Shot the Piano Player (2023)
78%
2.5/4
“Unlike Waking Life, which takes advantage of rotoscoping to lend a unique style to the animation depending on who’s talking and about what, the film aims for more stylistic continuity than one would expect, given the free-wheeling soundtrack. ” –
Slant Magazine
Nov 20, 2023
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Black God, White Devil (1964)
100%
3/4
“Throughout, Glauber Rocha calls on us to imagine what we’d want a revolution to look like.” –
Slant Magazine
Nov 13, 2023
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