If marinating in paranoia is your idea of a good time, Fontana's beautifully executed debut is as good as it gets.

| Dec 21, 2021

Restraint and alarm are the film's keynotes, with a hint of wry black comedy in every exchange.

| Nov 13, 2021

Fontana's sinewy debut teems with unseen threat. He crafts an atmosphere of grubbiness despite all the polished surfaces.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 31, 2021

As with the concealing language of the dictatorship, death is everywhere, just not on screen.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Oct 29, 2021

This superb debut feature from Andreas Fontana puts an ingenious spin on the paranoid thriller: its main character is determined to behave as if he isn't in one.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Oct 28, 2021

Fontana models the surface of the film after Yvan: assertively calm. But the unease thrums, brilliantly evoked - as if in every scene, something nightmarish was always just out of shot. It is.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 28, 2021

A genuinely mysterious journey into the heart of darkness.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 27, 2021

It is a film that continues to echo mysteriously inside my head.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Oct 14, 2021

Although it's hard to think of a story about a banker being a real white knuckler, Fontana turns Azor into just that.

| Sep 24, 2021

A riddle wrapped in a mystery inside a junta...

| Sep 16, 2021

A slinky political thriller about deception, dissembling, and self-delusion...[with a] slow-release malefic mood...expertly calibrated.

| Sep 13, 2021

A quiet, unhurried, un-flashy film, and that's what makes it unnerving.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Sep 11, 2021

Written and directed by Andreas Fontana, making a formally precise, tonally perfect feature debut, "Azor" is a low-key shocker. It has you in its cool grip from the opening shot...

| Sep 9, 2021

How effective "Azor" is will likely depend on your appetite for an aesthetically pleasing slow-burn

| Original Score: B- | Sep 8, 2021

"Azor" is Fontana's first feature, and what's impressive is how coolly he avoids the temptation to put on a big show, preferring more delicate tactics.

| Sep 3, 2021

With its elegantly restrained cinematography, exquisitely understated performances, and quietly sumptuous production design, Azor embodies the same well-mannered urbanity as its protagonist.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 2, 2021

Even if this environment will be foreign to most viewers, "Azor" builds the mystery with such engrossing cleverness that the film should easily attract art-house audiences.

| Mar 12, 2021

The striking feature film debut from Andreas Fontana brings a prickly thriller sensibility to the closed world of high finance and a piquancy to the phrase 'dirty money'.

| Mar 3, 2021