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Light Pillar ★★½
Immobility, introversion, and isolation make for a timely, if occasionally exhausting, focus for Xu Zao‘s dreamlike debut feature Light Pillar.Continue Reading
My Wife Cries ★
To anyone who made it through the roughly one and a half hours of Angela Schanelec‘s contrived conversation piece, itContinue Reading
Young Mothers ★★★
The Dardenne brothers have dedicated their filmography to telling stories about marginalized individuals within European society. Their latest, Young Mothers,Continue Reading
The Secret Agent ★★★½
The Secret Agent is a time machine transporting viewers to 1977 Brazil. The sights, sounds, and feeling, all come toContinue Reading
The Plague ★★★½
Teenage boys are horrifying. That much is clear from The Plague and its opening scene. A swimming pool is filmedContinue Reading
Trial of Hein ★★½
There is a strange stage-like quality to Kai Stänicke‘s first feature Trial of Hein, premiering in the 76th Berlinale’s PerspectivesContinue Reading
Chronicles from the Siege ★★★½
Life continues in spite of death in Abdallah Al-Khatib‘s visceral feature debut that turns to moments of absurdist humor andContinue Reading
The River Train ★★★
Dream, drama, and documentary intertwine in Lorenzo Ferro and Lucas A. Vignale‘s ambitious, though often arcane coming-of-age tale, premiering atContinue Reading
Lali ★★½
Making its own little bit of cinematic history as the first fully Pakistani production to be selected for Berlinale’s PanoramaContinue Reading
Not a Hero ★★½
After Village Rockstars in 2017 and the following year’s Bulbul Can Sing, Rima Das returns to Berlinale’s Generation section—dedicated toContinue Reading
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