Filmmakers Antonio Santini and Dan Sickles mostly let the couple's routines and journeys paint their own emotionally dappled picture.

| Apr 2, 2020

Sweet without being sappy, the film extends an uncommon empathy to two characters that colder films (and, as we see, people) would treat as a punchline.

| Dec 14, 2017

Dina is a story about resilience and a woman's indomitable will to seek out her best life.

| Nov 30, 2017

There are moments of humour in a gently affecting story that celebrates the ordinariness of its subjects.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 3, 2017

Co-directors Antonio Santini and Dan Sickles tell the story gracefully, doling out Dina's tragic backstory in excellent increments.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Nov 3, 2017

Sickles and Santini excel at constructing a respectful (but never cold or clinical) distance from their subject, using long takes to let her explain herself in her own words.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 22, 2017

Sickles and Santini's documentary is intimate, unvarnished and hugely touching, finding universal truths in its two subjects' unconventional romance.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 21, 2017

Dina offers it's audience far more than they bargained for without being moralising or predictable.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 20, 2017

Powerful film-making, executed with subtle style.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 20, 2017

Even if approached with more than a few misgivings, "Dina" is valuable if only to offer viewers an honest, touching, ultimately optimistic portrait of people embracing intimacy and honesty the best way they know how.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 19, 2017

It is a beautifully shot, coolly composed movie, in which the principals emerge as intensely likable and intelligent.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 19, 2017

A poignant snapshot of marginalised lives.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 19, 2017

[Antonio] Santini and [Dan] Sickles make us care deeply for Dina and Scott, so close is their access.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Oct 19, 2017

Although there may be no fairy-tale endings, by the movie's end it's impossible not to wish one for Dina and Scott.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 18, 2017

It's rare for filmmakers to get so close to any couple, but a special sort of caution comes with watching the lives of people whose view of the world might be far from our own.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 18, 2017

From the mundane to the eventful, the movie takes a fairly unflinching, yet respectful view of Dina and Scott's world, which includes family, friends, hobbies, home life, trips, rituals and old Top 40 songs.

| Oct 12, 2017

The film is mostly happy to stay in its sweetly mundane lane, but not without keeping a couple dramatic and moving bumps waiting down the road.

| Oct 6, 2017

There are some extremely dark moments in Dina, and these are even more powerful because of Santini and Sickles' humanistic approach. Their care for Dina and Scott is clear in every frame.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Oct 6, 2017

What redeems Dina is the fullness of the woman herself, who's managed her disability and survived a mortal threat in order to open up to the possibility of a long-term relationship.

| Oct 5, 2017

They are a sweet couple whom you want to root for, and their conditions and circumstances have imbued them with personalities that some might perceive as quirky.

| Oct 5, 2017