This tapestry display of individual lives highlights the disparate gender inequality in Iran, but falls victim to its otherwise dry thematic explorations.
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Review: Reza
There’s an empty quality to this otherwise impressive, lyrical Persian drama about life after divorce.
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Review: Judy & Punch
Mirrah Foulkes’ audacious, violent debut puppeteers together tense domestic drama with a cartoonish shock comedy.
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Review: Blinded by the Light
Like its starry-eyed protagonist, Gurinder Chadha’s teen film is far too obsessed with Springsteen for its own good.
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Review: Beats
Brian Welsh injects this coming of age tale, set against the last hurrah of Scotland’s rave scene, with visual energy and electric nostalgia.
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Review: The Goldfinch
Donna Tartt’s modern classic is adapted faithfully ― and misguidedly ― in this bloated cinematic adaptation.
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Review: Buoyancy
This urgent, authentic coming-of-age tale that takes a devastating look at the exploitative Thai fishing industry is vital viewing.
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Review: The Souvenir
Joanna Hogg’s fragmentary portrait of an emotionally abusive relationship is both painful and distancing.
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Review: Alternate Endings: Six New Ways to Die in America
This HBO documentary offers up some alternative perspectives on death rituals, but remains limited by its Western perspectives.
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Review: Sequin in a Blue Room
A high schooler navigates the world of queer online dating in this hypnotic coming of age tale.
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Review: The Wild Goose Lake
Diao Yi’nan’s expressively shot Chinese neon-noir is a pointless exercise in hard-boiled posturing.
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Review: Hotel By The River
Two occupants reflect on their pasts in a sleepy, snow-side hotel in this gentle, even-handed entry into Hang Sang-soo’s oeuvre.
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Review: Present.Perfect.
Shengze Zhu foregrounds humanism in this pensive internet-age documentary about streaming and voyeurism.
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Review: The Day Shall Come
Chris Morris targets American intelligence with acid-laced humour in this off-kilter, spitfire satire.
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Review: In Fabric
Peter Strickland’s killer dress movie wears its influences proudly on its sleeve, but its competing stories are sloppily stitched together.
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Review: Beanpole
Kantemir Balagov’s sophomore feature hangs heavy with the maternal emptiness of post-war Russia.
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Review: The Invisible Life of Eurídice Gusmão
The colours, the colours, the colours.
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Review: House of Hummingbird
This languid, slice of life portrait feels like a memory deep inside.
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Review: The Grand Bizarre
Jodie Mack’s experimental quilt of sound and colour gives “life and agency” to inanimate fabric.
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Review: Ohong Village
The intergenerational tapestry of lies between a father and son takes centre stage in this melancholic Taiwanese drama.
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Review: Crawl
This high-concept girl vs. monster thriller is a shining light in 2019’s swamp water of reboots, remakes and rip-offs.
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Review: The Third Wife
A child bride navigates her newfound womanhood in this sensitively directed drama.
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Review: Parasite
Bong Joon-Ho’s slippery Palme d’Or winner is another sharp take on class conflict in modern day Korean society.
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Review: Monos
This chaotically evocative thriller is a sensory, obscure look at a unit of child soldiers set on a faraway Columbian mountaintop.
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Review: The Body Remembers When The World Broke Open
Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers and Kathleen Hepburn deftly navigate conflict and compassion between two Indigenous women with unparalleled care and intimacy.
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Review: Jesus
Japanese director Hiroshi Okuyama’s debut looks at a religious experience through a child’s eyes.
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Review: Depraved
Larry Fessenden’s human tale of broken bodies updates the Frankenstein story for the 21st century.
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Review: Her Smell
Elisabeth Moss is a riot (grrrl) in a dizzying and exhausting portrait of punk infamy.
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Review: Animals
Animals plays out like a memory: within the wine-fueled haze of love won, love lost, and uncertainty, you might just find yourself.
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Review: One Child Nation
Nanfu Wang and Jialing Zhang transform the political to personal as they lay bare the effects of China’s one child policy.
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Review: The Heart Dances
Kiwi filmmaker Rebacca Tansley offers an empathetic look at the conflict between different cultural and artistic perspectives during the production of a ballet in New Zealand.
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Review: The Miracle of the Little Prince
A documentary on Antoine de Saint-Exupery’s beloved children’s classic thoughtfully breaks down language barriers.
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Review: Monrovia, Indiana
Veteran documentarian Frederick Wiseman stitches together a covertly political portrait of a conservative town in rural America.
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Review: John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum
This video-game-esque fight-fest gives Keanu Reeves a bunch of knives and puts him in opposition with the best and worst elements of its predecessors.
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Review: Up the Mountain
A visually immaculate look at those living inside a Chinese mountain village immerses itself in the pleasures of creation.
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Review: Little Woods
Tessa Thompson and Lily James star as two sisters caught up in the cross-border smuggling trade of prescription drugs.
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Review: Top End Wedding
An Aboriginal woman’s homecoming to the Tiwi Islands is the romantic comedy that Australia has been missing out on.
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Review: 3 Faces
Jafar Panahi’s latest film bypasses explicit social critique for a more enjoyable, idiosyncratic journey through small-town Iran.
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Two takes on 1985: An empathetic and moving look at the AIDS Crisis
André Shannon and Debbie Zhou present two opinions on Yen Tan’s restrained and perceptive drama.
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Review: Thunder Road
This off-beat tragicomedy could be retitled “Man on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown”.
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Review: Transit
Christian Petzold’s wrenching melodrama is an aching journey of forgetfulness, forgiveness, and identity in flux.
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Within and Without: Poetry in Motion and Lee Chang-dong’s Burning
Claire White shares her lasting memories of Lee Chang-dong’s impressionistic mystery.
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Review: Us
Jordan Peele gives Get Out an evil twin with this loopier, looser horror follow-up.
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Review: Hotel Mumbai
Dev Patel and Armie Hammer star in a white lens fictional retelling of the 2008 Mumbai Attacks to disastrous, culturally insensitive effect.
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Review: Captain Marvel
Marvel’s first female superhero flies straight into a well-worn template that lacks gusto.
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Review: Revenge
This mischievous survival film attempts to reclaim the complicated rape-revenge narrative.
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Review: High Life
Claire Denis’ ambitious first English-language flight into space is brought crashing down by glaringly conventional representational issues.
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Review: Everybody Knows
Penélope Cruz and Javier Bardem reunite in Asghar Farhadi’s latest melodrama, where past merges with the present to unexpected results.
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Review: Sink or Swim
A makeshift heptad form a syncronised swimming team in this wryly offbeat, exposition-filled French dramedy.
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Review: Celebration: Yves Saint Laurent
Any celebratory spirit is scarce in this observational documentary centered on enigmatic fashion icon, Yves Saint Laurent.
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