Psychological drama Murina masterfully unfolds like a nightmare, as it follows an abusive father and the control he exhibits over his wife and daughter.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 18, 2024

A film of natural beauty and human ugliness, a slow burn of a psychological drama that uses volatile teenage emotions as its incendiary fuel.

| Dec 2, 2023

It makes subtle and impactful statements of female allegories, misogyny, and toxic manhood — a dramatic movie shot on a paradise island, with escalating tension and beautiful visuals.

| Sep 8, 2023

Murina is a coming-of-age story in the guise of a thriller. Kusijanović prioritizes emotional violence, which only escalates from start to finish, brought to life by a gifted cast, Gracija Filipović (a professional swimmer) above all.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | May 8, 2023

Murina slowly reveals the discrepancy between the beauty of the natural surroundings and the simmering tensions within a family that make their living by fishing.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Jan 2, 2023

Films like Murina make me incredibly happy. They are, to me, what cinema is meant to be about. Resonant stories full of rich emotion and complicated humanity.

| Dec 28, 2022

It's a predictable melodrama that turns out to be not so predictable.

| Original Score: B | Dec 15, 2022

Murina has an erotic charge similar to The Postman Always Rings Twice, the classic noir about a torrid affair between a charismatic outsider and the younger wife of a domineering man.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 3, 2022

Filipović is a real discovery: A rebel in a dazzling white swimsuit that’s like a middle finger raised to the patriarchy.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 23, 2022

An intense and well-acted psychodrama about misogyny.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Sep 21, 2022

Antoneta Alamat Kusijanovic’s debut film, Murina, is a gorgeous, thoughtful exploration of teenage girlhood, abuse, and finding your own way out of oppression.

| Sep 21, 2022

Croatian filmmaker Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović expertly breaks down the forced servitude and the brutal familial mechanisms of a certain kind of Balkan machismo.

| Sep 16, 2022

An excellent central performance and composed, unhurried handling make Murina a film to get lost in.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 10, 2022

Antoneta Alamat Kusijanovic’s Camera d’or winning feature debut recharges the coming-of-age story with multi-generational sexual heat and a constant threat of danger in a sun-splashed, Adriatic setting.

| Original Score: B+ | Aug 28, 2022

Murina has a terrific keep-you-guessing plot, and Filipović’s performance firmly establishes her as a talent to watch.

| Aug 3, 2022

e coming-of-age tropes used here (blossoming sexuality, overprotective fathers, desire for freedom) can be traced back to countless better movies.

| Original Score: C+ | Jul 30, 2022

First time Croatian co-writer/director Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović demonstrates a mature, profound insight into human psychology, male and female, young and middle-aged, in her feature film debut Murina.

| Jul 28, 2022

A slow-churning, disquieting tale of a young woman's revelation that her life could have been entirely different than what it is, and her empowerment to change her future.

| Jul 25, 2022

Wonderful scenery, some good performances, very moody and not quite as predictable as one would think when it starts out.

| Jul 22, 2022

Combines fervent ideas, literary-style symbolism, and an enthusiasm - almost a hunger - for transforming idiosyncratic locations and people into cinematic landscapes.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jul 22, 2022