It's doubtlessly true, relentlessly dreary and certainly part of the modern conversation. The question is: Does it add anything to that conversation?

| Original Score: C+ | Oct 19, 2018

Araby is unmistakably contemporary in its fashions, settings, and physical behavior; the similarities to the past seem found rather than manufactured.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 16, 2018

A beautifully turned Brazilian movie that carries on as if a social-cause documentary and a folk song confessional had entered into a poignant embrace.

| Aug 9, 2018

The filmmakers dramatize, thinly but ardently, the rise of self-consciousness, of a revolution in the soul that hints at political action.

| Jul 5, 2018

It's a life out of an outlaw country song, with the spaces between the notes expressing working-class yearning-not least for the lost promise of Brazil's stalled socialist project.

| Jun 29, 2018

Araby may not seem to tell much of a story, in the usual sense: it seems to be one damn thing after another, but that, the film persuasively demonstrates, is precisely what life is.

| Jun 28, 2018

Thanks to Mr. de Sousa's superb performance, the movie often convincingly portrays not just the exploited condition of laborers such as Cristiano, but the nagging sadness of life itself.

| Jun 21, 2018

This is a beautiful bummer, giving voice to someone who's barely a number, but only to remind us that most of us are OK not thinking about numbers at all.

| Jun 20, 2018

The film is far less than the sum of its possibilities.

| Original Score: C+ | Jun 19, 2018