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Vadim Rizov

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Echoes of the Orient (2025) EDIT “Echoes’s distinguishing features include its adept widescreen compositions—an aspect ratio unusual for this pocket of slow cinema—and its equally non-standard, lowkey but consistent sense of humor and extreme awareness of the present moment.” – Filmmaker Magazine Nov 22, 2025 Full Review Far in the Middle of the East (2025) EDIT “Well-executed, dramatically bracing and well-composed.” – Filmmaker Magazine Nov 22, 2025 Full Review Sermon to the Void (2025) EDIT “The film’s real business is the non-stop purveying of images you’ve never seen before, building off a strong foundation of material shot in a desert over the course of 11 months.” – Filmmaker Magazine Nov 21, 2025 Full Review Le Lac (2025) EDIT “The most stereotypically “Swiss” movie imaginable.” – Filmmaker Magazine Nov 21, 2025 Full Review Saikai Paradise (2025) EDIT “So determinedly “gentle” and “low-key” that it made me wonder how many Japanese movies I’ve seen that could be called Still Walking beyond Kore-eda Hirokazu’s tonal prototype.” – Filmmaker Magazine Nov 21, 2025 Full Review Fire of Wind (2024) EDIT “If "Fire" is familiar in both its austerity and quasi-revolutionary solidarity, Mateus's command of her craft is clear, and her service in maintaining a particular lineage of severity admirable.” – Filmmaker Magazine Oct 30, 2025 Full Review Gavagai (2025) EDIT “Köhler’s a sneaky filmmaker, using conventional visual language and fully fleshed-out plotting to wrongfoot expectations in ways you couldn’t see coming, and it’s a pleasure to have him back for his first film in six years (!).” – Filmmaker Magazine Oct 17, 2025 Full Review Duse (2025) 67% EDIT “Duse hit because of its core tenet: History is a real thing that actually exists.” – Filmmaker Magazine Oct 17, 2025 Full Review Strange River (2025) EDIT “Strange River is a fine but familiar coming-of-age saga.” – Filmmaker Magazine Oct 7, 2025 Full Review Gloaming in Luomu (2025) EDIT “The movie is basically never funny, nor is it especially pregnant with longing for a missing partner; it’s just inert.” – Filmmaker Magazine Oct 7, 2025 Full Review Black Rabbit, White Rabbit (2025) EDIT “For about an hour, Black Rabbit is great fun, but unfortunately Mokri’s film is 138 minutes long.” – Filmmaker Magazine Oct 7, 2025 Full Review The River That Holds Our Hands (2025) EDIT “The movie is what we’d call a “promising first feature,” full of slow cinema compositional skill but a little low on the ideas necessary to get to even 85 minutes.” – Filmmaker Magazine Oct 7, 2025 Full Review If On a Winter's Night (2025) EDIT “Both lead performers convincingly embody the lived-in quicksilver intimacy of an infatuated couple being slowly worn down, and watching the light slowly fade from their eyes is fairly devastating.” – Filmmaker Magazine Oct 7, 2025 Full Review To the Victory! (2025) EDIT “I found it all very funny and sharp.” – Filmmaker Magazine Oct 2, 2025 Full Review The Fence (2025) 70% EDIT “The Fence seems to be an inexplicably faithful adaptation of a bad play.” – Filmmaker Magazine Sep 24, 2025 Full Review The Wizard of the Kremlin (2025) 49% EDIT “I would describe the film’s political diagnosis as both accurate and unsurprising; its real meat is in further illuminating the contours of Assayas’s life-long project.” – Filmmaker Magazine Sep 15, 2025 Full Review Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (2025) 92% EDIT “I’m glad to see mystery scholarship-in-action continue to get such a lavish stage in all its sub-genre forms.” – Filmmaker Magazine Sep 15, 2025 Full Review Blue Moon (2025) 90% EDIT “Kaplow’s script is a curious example of the biopic, bucking convention in several ways.” – Filmmaker Magazine Sep 10, 2025 Full Review Mare's Nest (2025) EDIT “A lot of the film is unexceptional.” – Filmmaker Magazine Sep 10, 2025 Full Review Promise, I'll Be Fine (2024) EDIT “The film is a spritely piece of work, whose frequently moving camera renders spectacular kinetic views of mopeds racing through imposing forests.” – Filmmaker Magazine Jul 21, 2025 Full Review Dust Be My Destiny (1939) EDIT “Some "genius of the system" virtues include typically breathtaking black-and-white cinematography by James Wong Howe and a script by Robert Rossen of such dialogue pungency that it sometimes rises to Sweet Smell of Success levels of acridness.” – Filmmaker Magazine Jul 17, 2025 Full Review Sand City (2025) EDIT “Mountains of crushed glass and sand are constant attractions, and the film is adroit at exploiting scalar differences in its under-construction landscapes.” – Filmmaker Magazine Jul 17, 2025 Full Review The Luminous Life (2025) EDIT “Perhaps the film’s greatest pleasure is spending time with 24-year-olds who read books older than themselves and don’t pheremonally emit the desire to either produce or stream content.” – Filmmaker Magazine Jul 17, 2025 Full Review Broken Voices (2025) 80% EDIT “Provaznik introduces signs of barely articulated unease slowly but never lets them primarily drive the narrative until the very end.” – Filmmaker Magazine Jul 17, 2025 Full Review Out of Love (2025) EDIT “The film is a tearjerker semi-disguised as a nuanced psychological drama; Ambrosioni hits a few narrative beats repeatedly to diminishing effect.” – Filmmaker Magazine Jul 17, 2025 Full Review
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