With “1982,” Mouaness gives viewers an immersive, ineffable sense of what it feels like to have the world shift under your feet before you even know it.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 7, 2022

Mouaness directs his debut feature with a sensitive hand, even if his script, based on his own experience, could have used a lighter touch.

| Jun 9, 2022

Mouaness skillfully gives the film a near-real-time feel, conveying a sense that the war is approaching through small-scale details...

| Jun 9, 2022

Imperfect as it is, this often-intuitive piece with a strong observational eye personifies the notion of the calm before the storm.

| Jan 19, 2021

Succeeds in accessing emotional truths that leave a lingering bittersweet melancholy.

| Dec 16, 2019

A sensitive slice-of-life drama.

| Sep 19, 2019

On a minute-to-minute basis it's mundane and cinematically ordinary.

| Sep 17, 2019