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Ben Nicholson

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Omen (2023) 87% EDIT “Omen blends complicated relationships, complex societal issues and spiky political allusions with verve and swagger.” – Sight & Sound Dec 31, 2025 Full Review It Was Just an Accident (2025) 97% 4/5 EDIT “Revenge has rarely felt as searingly political, ethically complex, or unabashedly absurd as in Jafar Panahi’s It Was Just An Accident.” – The Skinny Dec 2, 2025 Full Review Zodiac Killer Project (2025) 90% EDIT “The result is Shackleton very much having his cake and eating it. He’s managed to describe the thrilling, possibly sensationalised film never made within the confines of an experimental documentary.” – Sight & Sound Dec 1, 2025 Full Review The Return (2024) 78% EDIT “Eschewing the fantastical voyages not only allows Pasolini to ground his version of the story in a more realistic setting but brings the psychology of the characters to the fore. ” – Sight & Sound Nov 5, 2025 Full Review Souleymane's Story (2024) 100% EDIT “As the script teases out the details of what he’s been through, it acutely humanises this young single male who has come to Europe in a boat. The effect is profound.” – Sight & Sound Oct 17, 2025 Full Review Good Boy (2025) 90% 4/5 EDIT “A nerve-jangling haunted house story with one of the all-time great canine performances.” – The Skinny Oct 6, 2025 Full Review A Big Bold Beautiful Journey (2025) 36% EDIT “Rather than a sweeping romance, Kogonada and his stars have crafted an earnest and heartfelt modern love story, albeit one lacking in ardour.” – Sight & Sound Sep 26, 2025 Full Review Memoir of a Snail (2024) 95% 4/5 EDIT “Memoir of a Snail feels freewheeling and playful even in its darker moments. Its harshly grotesque world is crammed full of odd asides, deft observations, and moments of genuine warmth.” – The Skinny Feb 6, 2025 Full Review All We Imagine as Light (2024) 100% 5/5 EDIT “Expressive but subtle, All We Imagine as Light has a keen eye for the blueish ennui of the city and for the gestures and glances that proffer connections, whether fleeting or quietly profound.” – The Skinny Nov 25, 2024 Full Review About Dry Grasses (2023) 92% 4/5 EDIT “About Dry Grasses patiently follows the stilted flows and elliptical eddies of its characters’ lives to deepen our understanding of their discontent.” – The Skinny Jul 22, 2024 Full Review Fallen Leaves (2023) 97% 4/5 EDIT “Perhaps what is most gratifying about Kaurismäki’s work is the way that he is able to balance his po-faced ironic tone with a genuine, and acutely tender, melancholy.” – The Skinny Feb 7, 2024 Full Review Catch Me Daddy (2014) 93% 3/5 EDIT “An electrifying debut.” – The Skinny Dec 26, 2023 Full Review Utama (2022) 96% 4/5 EDIT “Letting go can often be the hardest thing to do and although Utama allows itself the odd flourish of magical realism, it is in the underlying truth of these experiences that the film hits home the hardest.” – CineVue Nov 29, 2022 Full Review Black Bear (2020) 89% 3/5 EDIT “The whole doesn't quite equal the sum of its still highly enjoyable parts.” – Little White Lies Apr 22, 2021 Full Review The Cat Returns (2002) 88% 4/5 EDIT “Miya-san may have said "sayounara" but the films made during his time will continue to inspire and delight.” – CineVue Dec 28, 2020 Full Review Spring in a Small Town (1948) 100% 5/5 EDIT “Mu truly has crafted one of Chinese cinema's quietly devastating landmarks...” – CineVue Oct 30, 2020 Full Review Here for Life (2019) 67% EDIT “Zimmerman and Jackson's film challenges us to become 'spectactors' and engage with and interrogate the stories we're told about those people on the periphery of society.” – Sight & Sound Dec 27, 2019 Full Review Aquarela (2018) 87% EDIT “In this vision, water feels like a very old god: a pagan one that is volatile, wrathful, impassive to the perils of man and yet majestic and serene.” – Sight & Sound Dec 11, 2019 Full Review Stones Have Laws (2018) 100% EDIT “Through collective authoring and by blending the telling of traditional stories into more typically observational ethnographic documentary practices, Stones Have Laws feels like a genuine attempt to honour the Maroon way of passing knowledge.” – Sight & Sound Aug 8, 2019 Full Review Monsoon (2019) 87% EDIT “Monsoon feels like a precisely considered expression of the untethered experience of migration.” – Sight & Sound Jul 20, 2019 Full Review Diamantino (2018) 87% 4/5 EDIT “Form, tone, narrative and gender all slide around the backseat as Abrantes and Schmidt career down various winding roads; the result is an absolutely joyous ride brimming with charm and humanity.” – The Skinny Jul 12, 2019 Full Review Multiple Maniacs (1970) 100% 3/5 EDIT “More than forty-five years after it made its bow on Baltimore's underground scene, this cult classic's trashy profanity retains its spark.” – CineVue Jun 7, 2019 Full Review The Propaganda Game (2015) 93% 3/5 EDIT “This is a snapshot accompanied by counter-claims that lacks any real digging into either. It all means that The Propaganda Game feels strangely inconsequential.” – CineVue Apr 8, 2019 Full Review The Benefactor (2015) 26% 2/5 EDIT “At the heart of Andrew Renzi's directorial debut The Benefactor is a kernel of an intriguing character study... Surrounding it is a tangled mass of loose narrative threads, none of which offer any real satisfaction.” – CineVue Apr 8, 2019 Full Review The American Dreamer (1971) 88% 3/5 EDIT “The American Dreamer may fail as a definitive portrait of icon or movement, but works as a Polaroid snapshot of a fascinating man in a very specific place and time.” – CineVue Apr 8, 2019 Full Review
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