Florid ★★★
The voices are always there. From the first scene they follow Jamal (Jonathan Jules) around, whispering in his and theContinue Reading
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Cute ½
As a story with a pedophile parent as its main character—with whom the audience is apparently supposed to empathize, atContinue Reading
Bajañi (documentary) ★★
It’s odd for a theatrical film to not truly require any moving images. But this is the case with FernandoContinue Reading
Sometimes Happy, Sometimes Rebellion (documentary) ★½
Yet another hybrid of fiction and documentary at the San Sebastián International Film Festival, María Aparicio‘s cinematic city tour throughContinue Reading
Body of Glass ★★½
Grief as an individual experience has become a widely accepted reality, polar to Naëmi Ada‘s dramatic scenario that looks atContinue Reading
Will You Still Be My Friend ★★★
Economic and ecological priorities are at the core of Lu Po-Shun‘s classic but also a tad conventional coming-of-age tale ofContinue Reading
Lovers Sleep Alone ★★★
Physical presence is only a painful provisory in Massih Parsaei‘s tender first-time feature, circling with its lonely protagonist through aContinue Reading
The World Before ★★★
Set over a languid summer on a remote Korean island, Yoon Dan-bi weaves a tender tale of the threshold fromContinue Reading
Heart of the Beast ★★
Is the title of David Ayer‘s sentimental survival epic a reference to animalistic qualities in humans, or to human qualitiesContinue Reading
