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Melbourne International Film Festival, Reviews

Review: ‘The Macaluso Sisters’ paints the slow passage of grief

Emma Dante’s unconventional Sicily-set drama poignantly captures, over decades, the mourning between sisters after a tragic accident.

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Melbourne International Film Festival, Reviews

Review: ‘Corpus Christi’ is a Clear-Eyed Drama about Faith and Fraud

There are no simple truths in this bittersweet, confronting film of a delinquent Polish youth masquerading as a Catholic priest.

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Melbourne International Film Festival, Reviews

Review: The Dread of Waiting in ‘La Llorona’

This slow-burning Guatemalan ghost story deals with heavy questions about complicity and justice.

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Reviews, Sydney Film Festival

Review: ‘Descent’ is a Cathartic Deep Dive That Takes Your Breath Away

Nays Baghai crafts an empathetic portrait of ice freediver Kiki Bosch, exploring how the traumas of her past led her to the extreme sport.

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Reviews, Sydney Film Festival

Review: ‘The Weather Diaries’ Speaks to Parenting in an Environmental Crisis

In her documentary, Kathy Drayton affectingly examines the climate crisis in Australia and its influence on her relationship with her daughter.

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Reviews

Review: How ‘The Last Thing He Wanted’ Went Wrong

Dee Rees’ highly-anticipated Joan Didion adaptation frustrates through what it chooses to keep, ignore, and change from the source novel.

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Melbourne International Film Festival, Reviews

Review: The Souvenir

Joanna Hogg’s fragmentary portrait of an emotionally abusive relationship is both painful and distancing.

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