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Hannah McGill

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Return to Seoul (2022) 97% EDIT “It is in that gap – between self-protection and exposure; between theory and reality – that this spirited, stimulating film finds its resonance.” – Sight & Sound Jun 8, 2023 Full Review Dick Johnson Is Dead (2020) 99% EDIT “Rather than positing better ways of processing death, this film celebrates our inability to do so: inventive as we are, we are no match for it.” – Sight & Sound Feb 7, 2021 Full Review Tehran: City of Love (2018) 6 EDIT “There's a sense of energy bubbling under but being quashed by restrictive tone and format.” – Sight & Sound Oct 15, 2019 Full Review Girl (2018) 84% EDIT “This film makes a gentle point of the fact that transitioning isn't trouble-free even if most of the people around you are broadly sympathetic to the undertaking.” – Sight & Sound Apr 3, 2019 Full Review Distant Constellation (2017) 85% EDIT “it's characteristic of the restless verve and spirit of Mizrahi's filmmaking that she doesn't let his piece settle into fatalism or sentimentality.” – Sight & Sound Dec 28, 2018 Full Review Shoplifters (2018) 99% 4/5 EDIT “Not only is it warmly accessible thanks to the pulsing humanity of its performances, but its story goes far beyond tender-hearted social realism into darker and more morally challenging territory.” – The List Nov 19, 2018 Full Review What Richard Did (2012) 91% EDIT “As smoothly shot as a classy ad, slow-moving and short on spark, What Richard Did compels with its sensitivity and technical diligence, but crawls along in terms of onscreen energy and narrative tension.” – Sight & Sound Jul 31, 2018 Full Review Le Havre (2011) 99% EDIT “Le Havre is brought to life by its raw, hopeful humanity; it feels close and real despite its deliberate distance.” – Sight & Sound Jul 9, 2018 Full Review Jeune femme (2017) 95% 6 EDIT “Is the woman whose adult capabilities are a thin veneer over hysteria a rebellious threat to patriarchal expectations, or a perfect product thereof?” – Sight & Sound Jun 18, 2018 Full Review Gook (2017) 94% 3/5 EDIT “The spirit of early Spike Lee infuses this patchy but energetic sophomore feature by writer-actor-director Justin Chon.” – The List Mar 12, 2018 Full Review The Prince of Nothingwood (2017) 100% 3/5 EDIT “The film is a fun and sporadically revealing fly-on-the-wall piece about a movie eccentric, but it could have done with some more solid background, both about its subject and the film world in which he operates.” – The List Dec 11, 2017 Full Review Menashe (2017) 95% 4/5 EDIT “The effort to raise a child, Menashe reminds us, is as likely to confront us with our own childishness as it is to bring out our maturity and responsibility.” – The List Dec 4, 2017 Full Review Beach Rats (2017) 84% EDIT “The film's mix of murky, up-close realism and dreamy vagueness is reminiscent of Gus Van Sant's and Larry Clark's detailed, faintly voyeuristic depictions of teen life, as well Matt Porterfield's unvarnished but elegant portraits of urban disaffection.” – Sight & Sound Nov 28, 2017 Full Review Bitch (2017) 66% 3/5 EDIT “If Bitch has some rough edges, Palka's wit and daring never cease to sparkle from the screen; and one leaves the film, if not entirely satisfied, certainly curious as to where this wild intelligence will wander next.” – The List Oct 9, 2017 Full Review Quest (2017) 98% EDIT “This is loving, humane, substantial stuff, with the richness of a fat novel rather than the sensationalism and cruelty of reality TV.” – Sight & Sound Sep 19, 2017 Full Review Goon: Last of the Enforcers (2017) 43% 3/5 EDIT “The film doesn't over-rely on aimless improvisation for laughs - and even allows its female characters to be funny.” – The List Sep 4, 2017 Full Review Insyriated (2017) 89% 3/5 EDIT “A film which uses the time-honoured devices of the most manipulative of genres - the melodrama and the home-invasion horror - to lend cinematic shape to the shapeless misery ongoing in Syria.” – The List Sep 4, 2017 Full Review Edith Walks (2017) 100% EDIT “This whole project is in large part a lark; and it's Ktting's mixing of fairly serious intellectual conjecture with guesswork, whimsy, jokes and gossip that gives it its approachability and life.” – Sight & Sound Jun 23, 2017 Full Review My Life as a Zucchini (2016) 99% EDIT “The upfront acknowledgement in My Life as a Courgette that many childhoods play out with nary a hint of magic, sparkle or sugar to help the medicine go down feels unorthodox and bracing.” – Sight & Sound Jun 5, 2017 Full Review The Shepherd (2016) 93% 3/5 EDIT “This Spanish drama / thriller gathers a gradual head of steam until its atmosphere is more reminiscent of the bloodier breed of western.” – The List May 30, 2017 Full Review I Am Not Madame Bovary (2016) 85% 3/5 EDIT “As plots go, it's on the Byzantine side - and director Feng Xiaogang renders things still more elaborate with an unusual visual style that sees the picture largely confined to small circular frames.” – The List May 22, 2017 Full Review Inversion (2016) 93% 3/5 EDIT “If its literal context is specific to Iran, the film also speaks to all of us about what happens when what we want clashes with what is expected of us.” – The List May 15, 2017 Full Review Harmonium (2016) 100% 4/5 EDIT “Showing tremendous assurance, writer-director Kji Fukada deploys an attention-grabbing narrative structure that involves a daring leap part-way through.” – The List May 1, 2017 Full Review The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki (2016) 98% EDIT “...Olli Mki bucks the cinematic convention of sporting self-sacrifice with one bracingly simple suggestion: that finding, being with and caring for the person you love might be more important than running yourself ragged in pursuit of passing glory.” – Sight & Sound Apr 20, 2017 Full Review The Transfiguration (2016) 86% 4/5 EDIT “The Transfiguration may prove too tender for horror fans and too grim for indie purists; but it slides between genres with a good deal of imagination, sensitivity and grace.” – The List Apr 20, 2017 Full Review
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