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The Eternal Memory
(2023)
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Tomris Laffly
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Get tissues ready to witness one of the most selfless and patient forms of love that graced our screens, shared and magnified through pockets of joy that Alberdi’s camera celebrates with a generous side of empathy and sense of humor.
Posted Feb 15, 2023
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Rye Lane
(2023)
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Tomris Laffly
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Just when everyone’s too eager to declare the eternal demise of rom-coms comes along Raine Allen-Miller’s shimmering Rye Lane, a witty London-set genre entry where the vibrant outfits are as stylish and free-spirited as the movie they dress.
Posted Feb 15, 2023
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Past Lives
(2023)
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Tomris Laffly
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Telling a delicate tale about missed connections, what ifs and the parts of ourselves we keep buried within, Past Lives might just be the most singularly exquisite film of this year’s Sundance.
Posted Feb 15, 2023
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Smoke Sauna Sisterhood
(2023)
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Tomris Laffly
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Hypnotic, intimate and blisteringly honest. No topic is off limits to [the film's] spiritual sisters as they sweat to cleanse their souls and bodies while also purifying the essence of their viewers.
Posted Feb 15, 2023
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KOKOMO CITY
(2023)
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Tomris Laffly
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As a Black and trans filmmaker, Smith refreshingly creates the space for [her subjects] to be provocative, raw and daringly glamorous in her taboo-breaking work filmed in gleaming black-and-white and edited with a fiery spirit.
Posted Feb 15, 2023
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Flora and Son
(2023)
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Tomris Laffly
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An old-school, old-fashioned and beautiful telling of a long-distance romance, but not without something new to say on kinships built in the digital age. This beautiful film will make your heart sing.
Posted Feb 14, 2023
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Fancy Dance
(2023)
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Tomris Laffly
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Erica Tremblay’s bold and confident debut Fancy Dance immediately cements her as a brand-new Debra Granik or Taylor Sheridan, with an assured voice entirely her own.
Posted Feb 14, 2023
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birth/rebirth
(2023)
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Tomris Laffly
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A fiendish and atmospheric riff on classic monster legends and a welcome addition to a certain horror sub-genre propelled by brawny but burdened mamas.
Posted Feb 14, 2023
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Beyond Utopia
(2023)
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Tomris Laffly
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Unforgiving, high-stakes and clear-eyed about the devastatingly brainwashing powers of elongated oppression, Beyond Utopia will be talked about well into the awards season with its extraordinary vision.
Posted Feb 14, 2023
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20 Days in Mariupol
(2023)
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Tomris Laffly
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Watching Chernov’s film is a humanitarian duty.
Posted Feb 14, 2023
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All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt
(2023)
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Tomris Laffly
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An expressive tone poem and a rural visual tapestry of dreamy richness, Raven Jackson’s unusually assured feature debut grabs you by the heart.
Posted Feb 14, 2023
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Speak No Evil
(2022)
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Tomris Laffly
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Critiquing forced pleasantries as much as a certain style of parenting guided by kids' irrational tantrums, Tafdrup cements that the age-old parental advice was indeed a very good one: Never talk to strangers.
Posted Feb 02, 2022
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Palm Trees and Power Lines
(2022)
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Tomris Laffly
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Palm Trees and Power Lines goes somewhere even darker than Andrea Arnold's Fish Tank, with a brave query into the notion of consent and a gut-wrenching parting note that feels like a scream stuck in one's throat.
Posted Feb 02, 2022
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Piggy
(2022)
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Tomris Laffly
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Pereda fashions a startling character study that veers into grand questions around morality, dejection, revenge, and justice, but one that smartly refuses to deliver easy answers.
Posted Feb 02, 2022
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Mija
(2022)
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Tomris Laffly
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An aching valentine to the strength of hardworking, undocumented immigrants, as well as a compassionate validation of the pressure their American-born offspring feel on the road to their parents' hard-earned citizenship.
Posted Feb 02, 2022
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Navalny
(2022)
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Tomris Laffly
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They don't make espionage pictures like they used to. Then again, here's Navalny, which could easily pass for a Costa-Gavras political thriller or the next Bourne chapter.
Posted Feb 02, 2022
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Cha Cha Real Smooth
(2022)
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Tomris Laffly
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This delicate and unadulteratedly pro-romance film makes the ultimate statement on the idea of soul mates, mourning the tragedy of letting go of one with an abundant side of optimism.
Posted Feb 02, 2022
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Fire of Love
(2022)
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Tomris Laffly
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With its quirky New Wave-adjacent cadences, Sara Dosa's sizzling Fire of Love proves that no one can narrate a fiery romance better than Miranda July's airily ethereal voice.
Posted Feb 02, 2022
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Descendant
(2022)
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Tomris Laffly
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A disquieting film with enduring significance [that] brings a sense of historical closure and validation to its [subjects].
Posted Feb 02, 2022
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All That Breathes
(2022)
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Tomris Laffly
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Humanity comes in its most selfless in All That Breathes, [which adopts] the interconnectedness of nature and mankind as a guiding principle.
Posted Feb 02, 2022
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After Yang
(2021)
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Tomris Laffly
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A meditative, low-key sci-fi of soulful gestures and grand existential probes.
Posted Feb 02, 2022
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Watcher
(2022)
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Tomris Laffly
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A stunning gaslighting whodunit, [with] a blood-curdling villain for the ages.
Posted Feb 02, 2022
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A House Made of Splinters
(2022)
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Tomris Laffly
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With a camera that feels both urgent and unassuming, Wilmont proves he's unambiguously earned the trust of his tiny subjects of colossal worries-a feat on so many different levels that concerns both outstanding filmmaking and exemplary humanism.
Posted Feb 02, 2022
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A Love Song
(2022)
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Tomris Laffly
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Both Dickey and Studi deliver deeply spiritual performances, harmonizing their gazes and bodily moves in an achingly restrained dance, against nature's mystical grandeur.
Posted Feb 02, 2022
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5/5
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William Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet
(1996)
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Yasmin Omar
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This glitter bomb of a film explodes the play and builds it back up again... result[ing] in a truly unforgettable cinematic experience.
Posted Nov 05, 2021
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4/5
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Spencer
(2021)
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Yasmin Omar
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The film is a celebration of a woman who refused to colour within the lines and let her rainbow shine forth, consequences be damned.
Posted Nov 05, 2021
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3/5
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Last Night in Soho
(2021)
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Yasmin Omar
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A thoroughly entertaining descent into the squalor lurking behind London's thrumming nightlife.
Posted Oct 29, 2021
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3/5
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Black Widow
(2021)
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Yasmin Omar
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Black Widow is not a bad film, nevertheless it feels like a wasted opportunity.
Posted Jul 05, 2021
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4/5
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Bridesmaids
(2011)
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Yasmin Omar
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With laugh-out-loud displays of pettiness, pride and passive-aggression, the movie incisively examines the delicate dynamics of a female friendship group.
Posted Jun 25, 2021
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3.5/5
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Girls Trip
(2017)
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Yasmin Omar
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Expect start-to-finish hilarity, of both a sexual and scatological nature.
Posted Jun 25, 2021
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5/5
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Lady Bird
(2017)
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Yasmin Omar
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Saoirse Ronan's stunning portrayal of adolescence is completely lacking in vanity.
Posted Jun 25, 2021
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5/5
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Call Me by Your Name
(2017)
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Yasmin Omar
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The blossoming romance between these two men, that unfurls over six sun-dappled weeks in northern Italy, is utterly ravishing.
Posted Jun 25, 2021
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4/5
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The Shape of Water
(2017)
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Yasmin Omar
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Without making a sound, Hawkins delivers a moving, entirely gestural performance that has charmed critics.
Posted Jun 25, 2021
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4/5
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The Post
(2017)
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Yasmin Omar
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Meryl Streep, as we have come to expect, is a force to be reckoned with in The Post, spitting out mile-a-minute dialogue and wrestling with the moral dilemma of printing the Pentagon Papers.
Posted Jun 25, 2021
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4.5/5
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Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
(2010)
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Yasmin Omar
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This is a flashy filmic landscape of expertly choreographed fight sequences and bubble-written onomatopoeia splattered across frames.
Posted Jun 25, 2021
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5/5
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An Education
(2009)
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Yasmin Omar
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Soundtracked by the sensuous jazz of the Swinging Sixties, the film is at once stylish and soul-searching, a thoughtful meditation on the pitfalls of grasping for adulthood too soon.
Posted Jun 25, 2021
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4/5
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I Killed My Mother
(2009)
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Yasmin Omar
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I Killed My Mother faithfully renders the love-hate tug-of-war between mothers and sons: smashed crockery and all.
Posted Jun 25, 2021
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4/5
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Blue Is the Warmest Color
(2013)
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Yasmin Omar
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Blue is the Warmest Colour is a teenager's deeply personal odyssey of self-discovery as she traverses the boundary of girlhood to enter womanhood.
Posted Jun 25, 2021
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4/5
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Appropriate Behavior
(2014)
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Yasmin Omar
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The movie feels like a feature-length episode of Girls (in which Akhavan would later guest-star), awash with bratty outbursts, awkward threesomes and sloppy physical comedy.
Posted Jun 25, 2021
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5/5
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The Diary of a Teenage Girl
(2015)
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Yasmin Omar
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Frank, pure and beautiful, The Diary of a Teenage Girl is a candid ode to growing up.
Posted Jun 25, 2021
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4/5
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Carrie Pilby
(2016)
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Yasmin Omar
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Carrie Pilby is an upbeat comedy that is a comfort to anyone who has ever felt alone in the city.
Posted Jun 25, 2021
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5/5
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Get Out
(2017)
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Yasmin Omar
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Its sucker punch to the status quo has ensured it's impossible to forget.
Posted Jun 25, 2021
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5/5
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Juno
(2007)
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Yasmin Omar
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The stripper-turned-screenwriter Diablo Cody can be credited with much of the film's enduring genius.
Posted Jun 25, 2021
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4/5
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Easy A
(2010)
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Yasmin Omar
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With scintillating wit and endlessly quotable dialogue, Easy A is a potent critique of retrograde attitudes towards female sexuality.
Posted Jun 25, 2021
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5/5
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Boyhood
(2014)
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Yasmin Omar
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Boyhood exudes a verisimilitude seldom seen in cinema, an open-ended, fly-on-the-wall naturalness that appears unscripted.
Posted Jun 25, 2021
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2.5/5
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Share
(2019)
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Yasmin Omar
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Pippa Bianco's feature directorial debut Share is a sombre snapshot of how easily digital content can be weaponised.
Posted Jun 25, 2021
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4/5
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Little Joe
(2019)
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Yasmin Omar
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Little Joe is an absorbing tangle of protocol breaches and relentless percussion that emotively interrogates the ethics of scientific advancement.
Posted Jun 25, 2021
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2.5/5
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Port Authority
(2019)
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Yasmin Omar
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Danielle Lessovitz's Port Authority is an unlikely love story that collides two antithetical worlds, then rummages through the romantic fallout.
Posted Jun 25, 2021
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4/5
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Can You Ever Forgive Me?
(2018)
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Yasmin Omar
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Can You Ever Forgive Me? is a charming, understated movie that peers into the inner lives of two recluses.
Posted Jun 25, 2021
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3/5
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Boy Erased
(2018)
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Yasmin Omar
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Boy Erased is, sadly, of-the-moment.
Posted Jun 25, 2021
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