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Ayelet Dekel

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That Summer in Paris (2025) EDIT “Valentine Cadic’s debut feature is quietly bold in its juxtaposition of the excitement of the 2024 Olympics in Paris with the narrative of an unconventional protagonist.” – Midnight East Jan 22, 2026 Full Review Rental Family (2025) 87% EDIT “Transactional relationships are given a positive spin in Hikari’s Rental Family, starring Brendan Fraser as Phillip Vanderploeg, an American actor living in Japan.” – Midnight East Jan 18, 2026 Full Review The Secret Agent (2025) 98% EDIT “Moving freely between different timelines and diverse genres, Mendonça takes the viewer on a provocative and intricate path, strewn with surprises.” – Midnight East Jan 15, 2026 Full Review Sound of Falling (2025) 95% EDIT “Sound of Falling is mesmerizing, vast, and mysterious... reminds the viewer from the start that our eyes can deceive us, that what we see is not necessarily what is true. Exquisitely detailed and assertively non-linear, the film drifts through time ” – Midnight East Dec 25, 2025 Full Review Anaconda (2025) 48% EDIT “ It’s a hilarious adventure and strikes a very precise chord in its evocation of the desire to relive the giddy exhilaration of creating something together with friends.” – Midnight East Dec 25, 2025 Full Review Eleanor the Great (2025) 67% EDIT “June Squibb is magnificent; I could watch her forever. There is a moment when she is in the midst of the great lie, when Eleanor says something true, and Squibb makes you feel it.” – Midnight East Nov 6, 2025 Full Review American Baby (2025) EDIT “Ellen Rodnianski sensitively conveys the climate of our time through the experiences of Oli, a 15-year-old girl living in a small Texas town.” – Midnight East Nov 3, 2025 Full Review Left-Handed Girl (2025) 98% EDIT “Shih-Ching Tsou dazzles in her solo directorial feature debut, Left-Handed Girl. The film is suffused with the colors and flow of Taipei ” – Midnight East Oct 10, 2025 Full Review Holy Cow (2024) 98% EDIT “a charming, warm-hearted coming-of-age film, grounded in the land and people of the Jura region of France.” – Midnight East Jul 31, 2025 Full Review Ballerina (2025) 75% EDIT “Elegant and lethal, Ana de Armas exudes John Wick worthy cool as Eve Macarro in this entertaining spin-off.” – Midnight East Jun 7, 2025 Full Review Lilo & Stitch (2025) 72% EDIT “Lilo & Stitch is a fun and heartwarming film on an intimate, rather than a grand scale, as well as being thoroughly entertaining.” – Midnight East May 22, 2025 Full Review Thunderbolts* (2025) 88% EDIT “Thunderbolts* enthusiastically delivers all the fast-paced action, intrigue, and adrenaline infused thrills one expects from the MCU, but just as compelling and integral to the narrative is the emotional force of the film. ” – Midnight East May 10, 2025 Full Review A Nice Indian Boy (2024) 95% EDIT “Romance prevails in A Nice Indian Boy, a feel-good film with a sensitive and intelligent perspective on the complex intersections of cultural traditions, queerness, love and family. ” – Midnight East Apr 22, 2025 Full Review Real Estate (2023) EDIT “Malz, who wrote, directed, and edited the film, observes her characters with a piercing gaze that reveals all the rough edges and cracks, their strengths and vulnerabilities, the dazzling mystery of the human soul. She views them with humor and empathy” – Midnight East Apr 20, 2025 Full Review Captain America: Brave New World (2025) 46% EDIT “Mackie, as Wilson, expresses the human vulnerability of Captain America, bringing a different kind of suspense to the fight scenes, and an interesting philosophical twist to the superhero series.” – Midnight East Feb 27, 2025 Full Review Brief History of a Family (2024) 92% EDIT “Jianjie Lin’s Brief History of a Family explores the tensions, power struggles, dangers, and desires of family life... moving and suspenseful, with excellent performances from an ensemble cast.” – Midnight East Feb 7, 2025 Full Review A Complete Unknown (2024) 82% EDIT “An intense performance by Timothée Chalamet reveals Dylan through his songs...A Complete Unknown expresses the feeling of the music and its effect, and captures the essence of Dylan in letting Dylan remain somewhat mysterious.” – Midnight East Feb 6, 2025 Full Review September 5 (2024) 92% EDIT “Suspenseful and taut, September 5 is a thriller marked by strong performances that is centered on true events, as well as ethical dilemmas that remain relevant to this day. ” – Midnight East Jan 29, 2025 Full Review Souleymane's Story (2024) 100% EDIT “Souleymane’s Story is a moving, suspenseful, and visceral depiction of the immigrant experience” – Midnight East Jan 17, 2025 Full Review Moana 2 (2024) 60% EDIT “Moana 2 is a visually appealing, entertaining, adventure, yet never goes beyond” – Midnight East Nov 28, 2024 Full Review Bad Genius (2024) 72% EDIT “Suspense, sheer fun, and social critique in an academic setting make Bad Genius the perfect film for back-to-school escapist pleasure.” – Midnight East Sep 12, 2024 Full Review Art College 1994 (2023) 90% EDIT “a fond, yet discerning and humorous look at student life in a beautiful 2D animated film. Set, as the title indicates, in the mid-90s, the film expresses the aspirations, reflections, and feelings, of art and music students in a changing China.” – Midnight East Sep 8, 2024 Full Review There's Still Tomorrow (2023) 89% EDIT “Cortellesi makes use of cinematic cultural archetypes familiar to cinephiles and infuses those dramatic tropes with humor and artistic inventiveness...An outstanding directorial feature debut.” – Midnight East Aug 16, 2024 Full Review It Ends With Us (2024) 55% EDIT “The film’s emotional trajectory is gripping, and Blake Lively delivers a luminous performance as Lily.” – Midnight East Aug 12, 2024 Full Review Inside Out 2 (2024) 91% EDIT “ I’ve seen Inside Out 2 twice now, and although it didn’t sweep me off my feet the way that Inside Out did, it didn’t let me go.” – Midnight East Jul 13, 2024 Full Review
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