Juxtaposes remembered interactions and still-life shots with a deliberate, elliptical precision, the minor-key notes building to a chord that resounds with the ache of lost time and unexpressed emotions.

| Sep 16, 2022

The Cathedral marries form to content in a striking way.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Sep 2, 2022

Part of the pleasure of “The Cathedral” is how D’Ambrose plays with — and gently destabilizes — narrative conventions by drawing from different realist traditions.

| Sep 1, 2022

The Cathedral is a deeply humanist film, but its also a relentlessly bleak exorcism of a familys intolerances.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Apr 22, 2022

The Cathedral is a quietly stunning jewel box of a film, filled with images that together form the captured memories of the main character, Jesse (played by various actors through his childhood and youth).

| Feb 3, 2022

A fervent memory piece, filled with haunting images of Jesse's visions. Amazingly, these scenes don't have the subjective feel of point-of-view shots; rather, they render memory as fact and present inner experience as an objective reality.

| Jan 29, 2022

D'Ambrose clearly has a confident, fascinating voice as a filmmaker, making a family drama that plays out almost like a memory.

| Jan 27, 2022

D'Ambrose has the technique and narrative instincts down; presumably next time we'll see what else he has on his mind.

| Jan 25, 2022