Hamnet ★★★½
Part of the artistic achievement of Chloé Zhao‘s absorbing account of genius and the personal grammar of grief is notContinue Reading
Author: Lida Bach
Magellan ★★★★
For centuries, Ferdinand Magellan’s legacy lived in the shadows of that of more prominent and popular explorers such as ChristopherContinue Reading
The Sea ★★★
For a film among those which prominently provoked Israel’s culture minister Miki Zohar to threaten that he would cut offContinue Reading
Good Boy ★★½
Among the countless fictions viewing their world through the eyes of an animal protagonist, only a few share the commitmentContinue Reading
Everything I Don’t Know ★★½
With a strong performance at its center and a sense for the subtle dynamics of family obligations, Ana Lambarri TellaecheContinue Reading
San Simón ★★★
Contributing to the growing body of Spanish cinema dealing with the unresolved legacies of the Civil War and Francoist repression,Continue Reading
The Sleeper. The Lost Caravaggio (documentary) ★★
Caravaggio has become a rockstar of painting, comments one of the art experts hunting after a formerly unknown work byContinue Reading
As We Breathe ★★★
A slow-burning film in more than one sense, Seyhmus Altun‘s somber debut feature, screening in the New Directors section atContinue Reading
The Son and The Sea ★★★
The inability to communicate one’s inner state and feelings is at the core of Stroma Cairns‘ emotionally eloquent debut feature,Continue Reading
White Flowers and Fruits ★★★
Ghosts, grief, and growing up form a melancholic mêlée in Sakamoto Yukari‘s directorial debut about characters quite literally haunted byContinue Reading
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