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Sweat (2020) 96% EDIT “Whether viewers will be swayed by such patness is certainly an open question, but Sweat does manage to introduce a few intriguing discomforts, before it rushes to blot them away.” – Sight & Sound May 14, 2026 Full Review Censor (2021) 89% EDIT “Bond presciently taps into the fact that violence has been such a deeply entrenched threat in women’s worlds that it permeates and inflects all human interactions. Trauma isn’t just an individual event, it’s a psychosomatic experience on a social scale.” – Sight & Sound May 13, 2026 Full Review Souad (2020) 89% EDIT “The ambivalence about where to assign guilt is the film’s theme and its narrative strength. ” – Sight & Sound May 13, 2026 Full Review The Secret Agent (2025) 98% EDIT “The film's earlier scenes binding sensuality and archives, while seeming quirky, have a real psychological pay-off... The film conveys the sense that, while the vulnerability of archives lies in their fragmentation, their power is in being unfinished.” – Frieze May 6, 2026 Full Review Last Summer (2023) 87% EDIT “The genius of Breillat’s storytelling and visual concept, with cinematography that bathes Anne in benign light, lies in the fact that her morality is impossible to pin down. ” – Sight & Sound Dec 31, 2025 Full Review Bird (2024) 86% EDIT “Newcomer Nykiya Adams triumphs as Bailey, commingling edginess, tenderness, and introspection; so do Barry Keoghan, whose Bug is as big-hearted and droll as he is hapless, and Rogowski, who delivers Bird’s stoic poise with a wispy softness. ” – Sight & Sound Dec 31, 2025 Full Review Kinds of Kindness (2024) 71% EDIT “Lanthimos follows up Poor Things (2023) with some far darker social experiments in this chilling portmanteau featuring brilliant, shapeshifting performances. ” – Sight & Sound Dec 31, 2025 Full Review Lula (2024) 64% EDIT “Centred on Oliver Stone’s extensive interview with Brazil’s charismatic left-wing President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, this engaging documentary exploration of the politician’s dramatic career feels a little too safe. ” – Sight & Sound Dec 31, 2025 Full Review Familiar Touch (2024) 98% EDIT “Sarah Friedland explores the human mind in all its frailness and glory with her exquisite drama about a woman with dementia adjusting to a new life at an assisted living facility. ” – Sight & Sound Dec 18, 2025 Full Review And Their Children After Them (2024) 82% EDIT “With lush cinematography and a throbbing 1990s-rock soundtrack, this sweet yet melancholic film establishes the Boukherma brothers as passionate chroniclers of their generation’s increasing sense of socioeconomic entrapment.” – Frieze Jan 3, 2025 Full Review Bestiaries, Herbaria, Lapidaries (2024) EDIT “As a whole, the film is as much a quiet condemnation of man’s extractivist attitudes as it is a cinematic dirge for humankind’s impending exit.” – Frieze Jan 3, 2025 Full Review Babygirl (2024) 76% EDIT “Highly refreshing... Kidman plays out kink scenes with a disarming mixture of vulnerability, hilarity and edginess.” – Frieze Jan 3, 2025 Full Review The Brutalist (2024) 93% EDIT “[The Brutalist] at times meandering and over-indulgent, misses the opportunity to illuminate how the architectural style emerged from the chaos and destruction of war. Nonetheless, the film is uplifted by Brody’s flinty performance.” – Frieze Jan 3, 2025 Full Review Murina (2021) 91% EDIT “Kusijanović articulates poignantly the heartbreak of familial love crudely bound up in the performance of power.” – Reverse Shot Mar 17, 2022 Full Review The Power of the Dog (2021) 94% EDIT “Campion handles such psychological denseness with virtuoso control, often whittling scenes to snippets of emotion and innuendo.” – Hyperallergic Dec 13, 2021 Full Review The Woman Who Ran (2019) 98% EDIT “More than any filmmaker of recent years, Hang-soo reminds his audience that such social performativity isn't without its perils.” – Sight & Sound Dec 5, 2021 Full Review What Do We See When We Look at the Sky? (2021) 90% EDIT “It's astounding how much fun Koberidze has with such a dire scenario.” – Sight & Sound Nov 13, 2021 Full Review Întregalde (2021) 89% EDIT “One need not have had any arduous alpine experience to appreciate the film's entertaining plot or Muntean's richly layered storytelling.” – Reverse Shot Oct 8, 2021 Full Review Unclenching the Fists (2021) 88% EDIT “The constant push-pull can at times seem like Kovalenko’s characters are wearing each other down, their lives one incessant wrestling match. However discomfiting, this wrangling is also riveting.” – Reverse Shot Oct 7, 2021 Full Review Never Gonna Snow Again (2020) 95% EDIT “Szumowska combines the social realism she's known for - marked by a dry, laconic tone - with a mystical plot.” – Hyperallergic Aug 3, 2021 Full Review Nina Wu (2019) 81% EDIT “In its desire to avoid cliches, Nina Wu skips over the more complex fallout of sexual trauma.” – Hyperallergic Aug 3, 2021 Full Review Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn (2021) 91% EDIT “Radu Jude's latest meets and defies all and any expectations in a flurry of comedy and porn.” – MUBI May 17, 2021 Full Review Rocks (2019) 97% EDIT “A compassionate, finely observed portrait of a young woman's gradual breaking down, as the usual buffers, including brotherly love and friendships, strain under her crushing responsibility.” – Sight & Sound Feb 14, 2021 Full Review Goodbye, Dragon Inn (2003) 81% EDIT “You'd never think a spacious, mostly empty movie theater could feel so tight.” – Hyperallergic Feb 8, 2021 Full Review Song Without a Name (2019) 93% EDIT “Its majestic, emotionally charged imagery, and stark vision of unredeemed humanity, are immensely engrossing.” – Hyperallergic Nov 17, 2020 Full Review
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