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Alexandra Heller-Nicholas

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Sayara (2024) EDIT “A blood-soaked, visceral revenge film that centers women and their fight for empowerment without surrendering to reductive two-dimensional girl boss cliches. ” – Film International Nov 8, 2025 Full Review Every Heavy Thing (2025) EDIT “The real magic of Every Heavy Thing – like all of Reece’s films – is less the story itself than the unrelentingly charming and idiosyncratic way he chooses to tell it” – Film International Nov 8, 2025 Full Review Redux Redux (2025) 98% EDIT “Redux Redux might not have quite the same spirit of ambient poetry as The Block Island Sound, but in its own way it is just as strange, sad and compelling” – AWFJ.org Jun 17, 2025 Full Review It Ends (2025) 100% EDIT “A film elegant in its simplicity that garners much of its oomph from the solid individual performances and the undeniable spark between them, It Ends is the kind of bold, original movie that low budget horror cinema at its best provides a perfect home for” – AWFJ.org Jun 17, 2025 Full Review The Home (2025) EDIT “The Home is a challenging, tragic film that never surrenders to cliche or easy ethical binaries, and one that grants dementia a serious, considered focus, albeit told through the lens of supernatural fantasy” – AWFJ.org Jun 17, 2025 Full Review Re-Creation (2025) 71% EDIT “Sheridan’s ambitions here are enormous, and while a fun courtroom drama in and of itself, I ultimately remain largely unsure of whether this wild swing truly paid off when it comes to these bigger, heftier moral questions” – AWFJ.org Jun 10, 2025 Full Review Man Finds Tape (2025) 82% EDIT “A disturbing little horror movie made with remarkable confidence and insight, Man Finds Tape is a reminder of how in horror, a good idea and a band of supportive collaborators is all you ever really need.” – AWFJ.org Jun 9, 2025 Full Review Inside (2024) 97% EDIT “While Inside offers a suffocatingly powerful instance of the Australian prison drama, it is also about something far greater than the country’s oft-demonstrated fascination with its own penal past” – AWFJ.org Jun 8, 2025 Full Review All You Need Is Death (2023) 88% EDIT “Duane doesn’t so much direct this film as he orchestrates it, and something about its ethereal beats render it a movie that you feel in an almost visceral way as much as you process intellectually” – AWFJ.org Jun 7, 2025 Full Review The Surrender (2025) 85% EDIT “The Surrender is a solid horror film, but where it truly excels is in its wholly singular, authentic and deeply empathetic portrait of palliative caregiving, which – as anyone who has ever done it knows – is a nightmare in and of itself” – AWFJ.org May 18, 2025 Full Review Sister Midnight (2024) 98% EDIT “Boisterous and heady, Sister Midnight verily pulses with a dynamic, kinetic thrum as Apte’s electric presence bursts off the screen in every single scene” – AWFJ.org Apr 30, 2025 Full Review Fréwaka (2024) 96% EDIT “Guaranteed to make more than a couple of end-of-year top ten horror lists, with Fréwaka Clarke offers something culturally unique yet with a broader charm that speaks well beyond its immediate national borders” – AWFJ.org Apr 16, 2025 Full Review Darkest Miriam (2024) 86% EDIT “Darkest Miriam is a quiet marvel” – AWFJ.org Mar 27, 2025 Full Review Cannibal Mukbang (2023) 93% EDIT “I liked watching Cannibal Mukbang: at its best, it is fun, it is sexy, and it gives the tried-and-true blood-and-guts soaked horror-comedy a lovely romcom twist. ” – AWFJ.org Mar 20, 2025 Full Review Body Odyssey (2023) EDIT “Body Odyssey is a kind of futuristic, sci-fi inflected feminist Toby Dammit, where Fellini’s focus on movie stardom is replaced here with bodybuilding – and yes, it’s as good as that sounds.” – AWFJ.org Feb 21, 2025 Full Review Dead Lover (2025) 83% EDIT “Glowicki’s film is a singular, strange concoction very much the unique product of its delightfully deranged creatrix” – AWFJ.org Feb 6, 2025 Full Review The Girl With the Needle (2024) 92% EDIT “The Girl with the Needle is no color-by-numbers true crime film, and rather is a captivating, desperate portrait of a young woman whose agency regarding her reproductive rights is effectively non-existent. ” – AWFJ.org Oct 29, 2024 Full Review The Substance (2024) 89% EDIT “A vision of hope, a statement of vindication, and an acknowledgement that the fleshy meat of our human selves – whatever shape it takes – is in a constant state of ever-moving, ever-changing flux. ” – Film International Sep 3, 2024 Full Review Hoard  (2023) 94% EDIT “Luna Carmoon is such a unique, strong filmmaker and Hoard feels like it is just a small peek into the kinds of stories she is capable of sharing with us – all, no doubt, just as special, just as singular, and just as magical. ” – AWFJ.org Aug 29, 2024 Full Review On Becoming a Guinea Fowl (2024) 100% EDIT “With On Becoming a Guinea Fowl Nyoni demonstrates that the majesty of I Am Not a Witch was no one-off fluke.” – AWFJ.org Aug 26, 2024 Full Review Janet Planet (2023) 85% EDIT “Nostalgic but never naff, Janet Planet fills the screen with warmth and compassion for its charming, flawed and very human characters.” – AWFJ.org Aug 26, 2024 Full Review Good One (2024) 98% EDIT “A quiet yet powerful film about learning how you want to be in the world, Good One is an impressive calling card for both Donaldson and Collias herself.” – AWFJ.org Aug 26, 2024 Full Review Green Border (2023) 94% EDIT “Green Border is not an easy watch, but it is an indescribably important one, and one of Holland’s most humane and compassionate works yet.” – AWFJ.org Aug 26, 2024 Full Review Thelma (2024) 98% EDIT “A playful, light-hearted film at is core, in every single frame Margolin foregrounds Thelma’s subjectivity and experience, brought to life so vividly by Squibb ” – AWFJ.org Aug 26, 2024 Full Review Universal Language (2024) 95% EDIT “Wholly original and brought to life with an overwhelming sense of charm and sincerity, Universal Language is a film like no other.” – AWFJ.org Aug 26, 2024 Full Review
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