Apples is its own creation, becoming stranger and richer and sweeter as it progresses.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 23, 2024

This is a distinct new voice within the film industry and I certainly cannot wait to see what he does next.

| Original Score: B | Mar 1, 2024

Nikou leverages 14842’s journey to illustrate that there is joy in embracing immense personal, past anguish over impersonal collateral sorrow at the hands of acquaintances and strangers.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 16, 2023

If the conclusion to [Christos] Nikou's debut doesn't land as effectively as it could, he casts an enchanting spell through deft direction combined with [Aris] Servetalis's consistently compelling performance.  

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 20, 2022

Christos Nikou’s film, rather ironically, lingers long in the mind following the end credits. Proving that at its core, Apples is an unforgettable debut.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Nov 12, 2022

A social parable about an individual's autonomy against a political or scientific authority imposing absolute control on the psyche after redesigning it. [Full review in Spanish]

| Sep 12, 2022

Aris is the riddle, subtly unlocked in a fable where forgetfulness is as much an unexplained incurable disease as it is a salve for painful memories.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 25, 2022

You can come away from Apples chewing not only on weighty themes related to pandemics and “do it for the ‘Gram” culture, but on how the fallible space between what we remember and forget is endlessly, essentially human.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 27, 2022

A moody, meditative drama about an epidemic of amnesia. this Greek drama raises nettlesome questions about identity and how we relate to each other.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jul 21, 2022

Apples won’t be to everyone’s taste, but if it hits you right, it’ll stay in your bones for days afterward.

| Jul 17, 2022

Dystopia settles into each gesture, each movement... Nikou teases out notions of how and why we are haunted... no answers, but many quizzical questions. (Plus dancing. There must always be dancing in Greek movies.) “Apples” is a small, but beautiful poem.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Jul 15, 2022

One of the most original, if understated, movies of the year, Nikou’s directorial debut relies upon the potency of the image above ponderous dialogue or showy close-ups.

| Jul 14, 2022

Nikou puts Aris on a profound journey as we wonder what our place is on this earth, and it pulls no punches.

| Jul 13, 2022

A gentle meditation on memory, being, belonging and abandonment, Apples is also a first feature from Greek director and co-writer Christos Nikou.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jul 12, 2022

Servetalis' stoic passivity is somehow endearing, the movie itself understated in a way that feels original if ambiguous...

| Jul 11, 2022

Nikou has taken some big risks for his directorial debut. Apples walks a line between humour and pathos that isn't easily definable. But his restrained and thoughtful approach results in a deeply rewarding film.

| Original Score: A-minus | Jul 8, 2022

We’re able to invest ourselves in Nikou’s world because we can so easily see ourselves in Servetalis’s character.

| Jul 7, 2022

Apples is a half-mocking parable of the individual invented realities in which we increasingly isolate ourselves.

| Jul 7, 2022

Pick 'Apples'. Christos Nikou’s eccentric, minimalist dramedy is one of the year's best films so far.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jul 5, 2022

The pleasure of Apples lies in being able to savor the sheen of a deceptively simple story and then bite into the delicious puzzle Christos Nikou has planted inside.

| Jul 4, 2022