The Visitor (2024)
94%
“With The Visitor, it feels that La Bruce is repeating himself through pastiche, reusing old ideas through older narratives, puncturing them with an empty provocation that grows tired far quicker, culminating in a fairly gruelling 100 minutes.” –
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Apr 3, 2025
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Yintah (2024)
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“Yintah’s exceptional proximity and montage, its resolute duty to confront the violation and expropriation ongoing, is reflected in the filmmakers’ unwavering ideology.” –
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Oct 18, 2024
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Solo (2023)
94%
“Filmmakers should be more thoughtfully reflexive of these means of production, but with Solo, Dupuis has, frustratingly, left us high and dry.” –
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May 22, 2024
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Rei (2024)
80%
“Tanaka’s debut is a disoriented work, one whose sundry of machinations fails to ever cohere.” –
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Apr 14, 2024
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Finestkind (2023)
28%
“Brian Helgeland’s Finestkind is an evasive conundrum, a hodgepodge of augmented dramaturgy that very poorly traverses what should be electric genre terrain.” –
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Dec 14, 2023
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Here (2023)
94%
“It does provide the very temporary warmth our central couple moves in and out of with a refined ease, framed within a very engineered serendipity...” –
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Sep 19, 2023
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Deep Sea (2023)
88%
“A work labored over by a thousand-strong team of animators over a seven-year period, the film’s animation is consistently imbued with wonder and grace, yet it all culminates in a grotesque dismissal of child abuse. ” –
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Jun 14, 2023
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Concerned Citizen (2022)
94%
“Such troubled perspective only derives from a failed schema, wherein secondary characters are positioned either as pawns with no discernible interiority or plot beats serving only to contextualize our protagonist.” –
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Jun 5, 2023
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Monica (2022)
84%
“Pallardo’s film has such stringent narrative goals, yet proceeds nowhere and with nothing. Its vague and enervating plot purports to signify profundity, but only accomplishes the desultory.” –
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May 12, 2023
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Onlookers (2023)
75%
“With everything here pitched as a signifier of the exact same thing, and the signified remaining woefully ignorant to the introduced contexts, Onlookers is a tired echo of polemics long abstracted into the institutionalized nether.
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Apr 3, 2023
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Gods of Mexico (2022)
85%
“This well-meaning survey of beauty and might quickly collapses into the ornamental. ” –
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Mar 6, 2023
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Cinema Sabaya (2021)
86%
“Seeing the infinite capacities of a medium as multifaceted and complex as the cinematic one reduced to meandering liberalism bodes tragedy — artistically, certainly, but more importantly one of ideological kindling, a refusal of meaningful introspection.” –
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Feb 10, 2023
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The Sleeping Negro (2021)
100%
“ It all plays out with a fumbling intentionality, where the disunity of the aesthetic whole very perfectly reflects the schism of our character and, assuming that our protagonist acts as an analogue to its performer, our director himself.” –
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Feb 4, 2023
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Heroic (2023)
81%
“Zonana has appropriated arthouse austerity into his compositional survey of this space wherein such violence seethes, but the director fails to cohere the institutional and the individual beyond expository pontification.” –
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Feb 4, 2023
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Jung_E (2023)
50%
“When all is said and done, we have a character piece that’s abstracted to the exact degree the world around her is, both in diegetic convolution and thematic hodgepodge.” –
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Jan 20, 2023
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Children of the Mist (2021)
95%
“What is being presented persists in the othering of the film’s subjects — the camera remains as a material breach into the lives it takes as subject.” –
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Dec 16, 2022
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Tantura (2022)
94%
“Schwarz’s documentary, conversely, provides enough political doublespeak to engage in it with caution and skepticism, but this all feels like a morbid PR stunt. ” –
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Dec 2, 2022
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The Corridors of Power (2022)
78%
“What we have here is a film that’s conceit lies in ideological ambivalence, which conclusively allows those with very determined imperial goals to design history around their perspective.” –
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Dec 1, 2022
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Four Samosas (2022)
66%
“Four Samosas clings to a straining aesthetic emulation — an ideologically regressive derivative of Wes Anderson — yet derisively so (and oblivious to it): its formal aspirations falter at the hands of more conventional characterization.” –
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Nov 17, 2022
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Four Winters: A Story of Jewish Partisan Resistance and Bravery in WWII (2020)
83%
“Four Winters is Julia Mintz’s attempt — one would assume — to create a cogent mosaic of this collective struggle. Unfortunately, the work is nothing but an exercise in reductionism.” –
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Sep 30, 2022
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The Maiden (2022)
79%
“Graham Foy’s The Maiden leaves me on the fence, for where there are glimpses of evocation in the tactility of night, there are just as many redundancies in the vague aura of day.” –
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Sep 16, 2022
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Autobiography (2022)
92%
“[Autobiography is merely] the tottered unfurling of reductionism and presumed dramaturgical virtuousness.” –
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Sep 8, 2022
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Luxembourg, Luxembourg (2022)
83%
“[Luxembourg, Luxembourg is] a trite conception of material/psychoanalytic relations with not much more to contemplate.” –
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Sep 8, 2022
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Girl Picture (2022)
97%
“It’s too timid filmmaking, too timid writing — Girl Picture is an embarrassment of riches for those seeking an exemplar of the cinematically inept, suggesting substance where only vapid fakery exists.” –
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Aug 15, 2022
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Murina (2021)
91%
“Overall ... there remains an unwelcome broadness to the catalysts of such questions, where not much of a dialectic can be formed, stunting the film from articulating anything much of its own.” –
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Jul 8, 2022
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