Neil Young
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The Arc of Oblivion (2023) |
A likeably offbeat and disarmingly self-aware documentary essay on how humans deal with the immutable transience of the universe, Ian Cheney’s globetrotting Arc Of Oblivion should leave a trace in the minds of receptive viewers. - Screen International
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| Posted Mar 21, 2023
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Munch (2023) |
Unusual in structure if disappointingly conventional in content. - Screen International
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| Posted Jan 25, 2023
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Displaced in Heaven (2018) |
Stands out for its raw, propulsive immediacy. - Screen International
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| Posted Nov 23, 2022
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My Lost Country (2022) |
Tender and empathetic on this personal level, with several particularly effective examples of fluent montage, the film gains extra relevance as a tribute to the stoic humanism of individuals like Mohsen Yasin. - Screen International
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| Posted Nov 23, 2022
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Journey Through Our World (2022) |
This is an irresistibly warm work of solid humanism. - Screen International
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| Posted Nov 22, 2022
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Apolonia, Apolonia (2022) |
The absorbingly intimate portrait of an artist as a young woman over the transformative span of 13 years. - Screen International
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| Posted Nov 21, 2022
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Personality Crisis: One Night Only (2022) |
While finding him in solid enough voice, the film is an even more effective showcase for his spoken-word talents as sharp, amiable raconteur and rambunctious comic. - Screen International
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| Posted Nov 17, 2022
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The Last Dolphin King (2022) |
Illuminatingly sketches the often-murky background of the dolphin business and its finances... - Screen International
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| Posted Nov 17, 2022
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Alteration (2022) |
Built around a nuanced performance by Uraev, the film successfully navigates styles and moods to match the very different phases of Rustam’s highly eventful life. - Screen International
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| Posted Oct 21, 2022
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The Continuing Land (2022) |
A quietly accomplished fiction-feature debut. - Screen International
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| Posted Oct 19, 2022
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Big Sleep (2022) |
An impressive, potentially star-making turn from leading man Kim Young-sung is the main — but by no means only — reason to see Big Sleep, a textured and absorbing fiction-feature debut from South Korean writer-director Kim Tae-hoon. - Screen International
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| Posted Oct 15, 2022
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Peafowl (2022) |
Writer-director Byun Sung-bin amply confirms the promise of award-laden 2020 short God’s Daughter Dances with his thematically-related debut feature Peafowl. - Screen International
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| Posted Oct 15, 2022
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Greenhouse (2022) |
A spirallingly implausible but engrossing psychological drama with aspects of thriller and undertones of dark comedy... - Screen International
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| Posted Oct 15, 2022
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A Wild Roomer (2022) |
A good-looking but indulgently overextended affair which only partially rewards the patience it demands from audiences. - Screen International
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| Posted Oct 12, 2022
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Memento Mori: Earth (2022) |
It walks a hazardous line between the tearful and the lachrymose, although sensitive viewers who succumb to its ethereal spell will find the film an emotionally moving experience. - Screen International
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| Posted Oct 12, 2022
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Blue Again (2022) |
This epic-sized canvas inadvertently accentuates Loosuwan’s deficiencies rather than her strengths. - Screen International
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| Posted Oct 12, 2022
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Six Characters (2022) |
Lushly-appointed visualisations help to open out what is necessarily and inevitably quite stagy material. - Screen International
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| Posted Oct 12, 2022
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Thousand and One Nights (2022) |
A gently-paced character-study of two women brought together by their shared experience of husbands who have gone missing. - Screen International
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| Posted Oct 12, 2022
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The Chalice. Of Sons and Daughters (2022) |
An empathetic immersion into a fascinating, colourful and sometimes disturbing European subculture... - Screen International
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| Posted Aug 23, 2022
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I Have Electric Dreams (2022) |
The tough, sensual, spiky feature-length debut by Costa Rican writer-director Valentina Maurel. - Screen International
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| Posted Aug 22, 2022
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Serviam: I Will Serve (2022) |
The climax... amps up the threateningly sinister mood to a nerve-rattling degree but then frustratingly fails to deliver the kind of Grand Guignol catharsis — see Paul Verhoeven’s Benedetta — which the viewer has been led to expect. - Screen International
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| Posted Aug 19, 2022
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Riders (2022) |
Adjectives such as promising and auspicious don’t quite cut it: the picture... feels very much like the arrival of a fully-formed new European talent. - Screen International
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| Posted Aug 18, 2022
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Safe Place (2022) |
The bonds of brothers are claustrophically evoked in Safe Place, a prickly and unsettling feature debut from Croatian writer-director Juraj Lerotic. - Screen International
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| Posted Aug 18, 2022
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You Will Not Have My Hate (2022) |
A sensitive and cumulatively moving account of private grief in the aftermath of very public atrocity. - Screen International
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| Posted Aug 18, 2022
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A Ballad (2022) |
This empathetic character study seeks to breathe life into a soap-opera-like storyline with stylistic flights of fancy — most of which land awkwardly. - Screen International
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| Posted Aug 18, 2022
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Men of Deeds (2022) |
A slow-burning and likeable pitch-dark comedy from Romanian director Paul Negoescu. - Screen International
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| Posted Aug 17, 2022
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Rule 34 (2022) |
Boasts a strong central performance by newcomer Sol Miranda that retains interest and sympathy throughout. - Screen International
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| Posted Aug 17, 2022
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Matter Out of Place (2022) |
A typically sober, observational and engrossing work of ecological-anthropological documentary from Austrian maestro Nikolaus Geyrhalter. - Screen International
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| Posted Aug 12, 2022
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Astrakan (2022) |
For most of its length a sober, elliptically observational study of a smart, wayward teenager in foster care, which takes an unexpected formal left turn in its final minutes. - Screen International
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| Posted Aug 10, 2022
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Tommy Guns (2022) |
Along the way there are occasional horror-movie touches, prefiguring an action-heavy Grand Guignol climax that provides a satisfying payoff to the picture’s interlocking enigmas.
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| Posted Aug 09, 2022
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Human Flowers of Flesh (2022) |
A poetic, elliptical and deliberately elusive affair... - Screen International
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| Posted Aug 09, 2022
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Fairytale (2022) |
While Fairytale stretches the viewer’s indulgent patience even at a relatively brief 78 minutes, surrendering to its odd, oneiric flow can often prove an experience more pleasurable than purgatorial. - Screen International
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| Posted Aug 09, 2022
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My Neighbor Adolf (2022) |
The old-fashioned star power of septuagenarian German cult-actor Udo Kier elevates and ultimately salvages My Neighbor Adolf... - Screen International
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| Posted Aug 09, 2022
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A Provincial Hospital (2022) |
A decade after his feature-length debut Sofia’s Last Ambulance, Bulgarian director Ilian Metev returns to his country’s healthcare system with another empathetic, observational documentary. - Screen International
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| Posted Jul 12, 2022
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Summer with Hope (2022) |
[An] exceptionally good-looking snapshot of a controllingly conservative society in microcosmic action... - Screen International
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| Posted Jul 11, 2022
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A Room of My Own (2022) |
Confirming the promise of his 2021 debut Otar’s Death, Bliadze has composed a sensitive study of a meek 24-year-old woman’s gradual emergence from her shell under the mercurial influence of a hedonistic flatmate. - Screen International
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| Posted Jul 07, 2022
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America (2022) |
While heart-tugging sentiment is not entirely shunned... it is handled with sufficient tact and sensitivity to heighten rather than cheapen the story’s overall impact. - Screen International
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| Posted Jul 06, 2022
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Fucking Bornholm (2022) |
[Distinguishes] itself from predecessors in the particular, perennially popular relationships-on-the-rocks sub-genre via its confident stylistic approach. - Screen International
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| Posted Jul 06, 2022
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Arm Wrestler (2022) |
An absorbingly unfussy, fly-on-the-wall character-study... - Screen International
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| Posted Mar 23, 2022
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The Invitation (2022) |
Working as his own cinematographer, Maltese displays a veteran’s eye for effective composition; colour-correction by Kim El Ouardi is the finishing touch to a work of consistent visual splendour.
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| Posted Mar 22, 2022
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Sirens (2022) |
A roof-raising rock-doc with heart to match its decibels... - Screen International
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| Posted Mar 22, 2022
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The Other Half (2022) |
A dozen years of photo-journalism on the frontlines of Fortress Europe are condensed into 72 briskly engrossing minutes in The Other Half, an accomplished big-screen debut by renowned photographer Giorgos Moutafis. - Screen International
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| Posted Mar 22, 2022
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Long Live My Happy Head (2021) |
A tender but determinedly unsentimental chronicle of love in the midst of a death foretold. - Screen International
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| Posted Mar 18, 2022
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Off the Rails (2022) |
A bracingly kinetic snapshot of contemporary British urban youth, Off the Rails is infused by the daredevil energy of its adrenalin-junkie subjects. - Screen International
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| Posted Mar 16, 2022
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The City and the City (2022) |
An absorbing and appropriately disturbing indictment of man’s inhumanity to man. - Screen International
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| Posted Feb 17, 2022
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1341 Frames of Love and War (2022) |
Israeli war-photographer Micha Bar-Am looks back on his nine eventful decades in Ran Tal’s persuasively admiring documentary 1341 Frames Of Love And War. - Screen International
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| Posted Feb 13, 2022
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To Love Again (2022) |
An exercise in subtle restraint which demands and rewards patient attention. - Screen International
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| Posted Feb 05, 2022
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Shabu (2021) |
A crowdpleasing evocation of the Dutch city during one sun-dappled summer. - Screen International
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| Posted Feb 04, 2022
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Excess Will Save Us (2022) |
Working with experienced editors Patrik Forsell and Carl Javer, the director maintains an engaging pace over 100 minutes, even if her control of tone and mood can sometimes be wayward. - Screen International
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| Posted Feb 03, 2022
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Silver Bird and Rainbow Fish (2022) |
Enlivens archival materials by manipulating and distorting domestic snaps and widely-disseminated propaganda images into kinetic, pop-art collages. - Screen International
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| Posted Feb 02, 2022
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