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Deborah Young

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20,000 Species of Bees (2023) 93% EDIT “By showing this as a process of growth, albeit one fraught with emotional obstacles, Urresolo Sologuren adds something new to the discourse, while young Otero’s entrancing debut holds the attention even without major dramatic quakes.” – The Film Verdict Jun 21, 2024 Full Review Shonibar Bikel (Saturday Afternoon) (2019) 80% EDIT “As breathless as the narrative is, Farooki's direction has an easy confidence that, amid all the camera pyrotechnics, keeps the drama in focus.” – The Hollywood Reporter Jan 12, 2023 Full Review Nostalgia (2022) 89% EDIT “Shot with feeling for its subject and without the hard theatrical-intellectual veneer that keeps audiences at arm’s length from many of Mario Martone’s films, it ranks as one of the prolific director’s most accessible works.” – The Film Verdict May 25, 2022 Full Review Father & Soldier (2022) 75% EDIT “Mathieu Vadepied’s affecting portrait of paternal love hinges on intensely involving performances by Omar Sy and Alassane Diong.” – The Film Verdict May 20, 2022 Full Review Armageddon Time (2022) 77% EDIT “This small-scale, closely observed story is one of Gray’s very best.” – The Film Verdict May 20, 2022 Full Review Drive My Car (2021) 97% EDIT “Hamaguchi's long, measured, ultimately mesmerizing examination of the human soul.” – The Film Verdict Jan 19, 2022 Full Review The Four Walls (2021) EDIT “Ghobadi also sounds a full register of genre keys, from the blackest tragedy and furious drama to paradoxical humor, but with more ambition than conviction. One is left wondering how to react to Boran's drama.” – The Film Verdict Nov 14, 2021 Full Review Clara Sola (2021) 91% EDIT “Costa Rica dancer Wendy Chinchilla Araya gives an eerie, riveting perf but it only goes so far in this unstructured tale of magic realism and female power from debuting director Nathalie Alvarez Mesen.” – The Film Verdict Oct 29, 2021 Full Review Compartment No. 6 (2021) 93% EDIT “An engrossingly offbeat rail movie (...) Fully modulated yet natural performances by the two leads, Seidi Haarla and Yuriy Borisov, walk us through the human condition with the nuances of a big Russian novel.” – The Film Verdict Oct 29, 2021 Full Review Invisible Demons (2021) 100% EDIT “An apocalyptic vision of Delhi's life-threatening pollution that floods the screen with present-day disasters.” – The Film Verdict Oct 29, 2021 Full Review Life of Ivanna (2022) EDIT “Documaker Renato Borrayo Serrano offers eye-opening glimpses into the harrowing and chaotic life of a modern Nenets woman that overturn stereotypes about Arctic life.” – The Film Verdict Oct 25, 2021 Full Review Murina (2021) 91% EDIT “Extols female rebellion but walks a dangerous tightrope connecting the male gaze with the body of a rebellious 17-year-old girl.” – The Film Verdict Oct 25, 2021 Full Review One Second (2020) 100% EDIT “Zhang Yimou ironically salutes the movies and their fervent audiences during China's Cultural Revolution, in a stylistic pastiche that drags a little.” – The Film Verdict Oct 15, 2021 Full Review Prayers for the Stolen (2021) 96% EDIT “Tatiana Huezo makes her dazzling feature fiction debut with the unforgettable Prayers for the Stolen.” – The Film Verdict Oct 15, 2021 Full Review Rhino: Ukrainian Godfather (2021) 82% EDIT “The thing is, they don't really know why they're so bad or what they're after - and the film offers precious few clues. (...) Many viewers of this Venice Horizons films will wonder what the point is.” – The Film Verdict Oct 15, 2021 Full Review Django & Django (2021) 75% EDIT “Tarantino explains his love for Sergio Corbucci's Spaghetti Westerns and reveals a lot about his own work in the process in Luca Rea's irresistible, eye-opening documentary.” – The Film Verdict Oct 15, 2021 Full Review America Latina (2021) 29% EDIT “If the narrative thread is frustrating, Elio Germano (he played one of the off-the-wall parents in Favolacce) keeps you guessing.” – The Film Verdict Oct 15, 2021 Full Review Maixabel (2021) 100% EDIT “Icair Bollain chillingly dramatizes the real-life encounter between a strong-minded widow and the repentant Basque terrorists who murdered her husband.” – The Film Verdict Oct 15, 2021 Full Review Karmalink (2021) 89% EDIT “An ambitious sci-fi mystery and teenage adventure yarn set in the near future in Buddhist Cambodia.” – The Film Verdict Oct 15, 2021 Full Review Captain Volkonogov Escaped (2021) 100% EDIT “A grotesque comedy set in the 1930s that gives full vent to the Russian lust for metaphor, mysticism and visual expressionism. (...) A coherent stylistic choice that pays off handsomely in the final moments.” – The Film Verdict Oct 15, 2021 Full Review The Blind Man Who Did Not Want to See Titanic (2021) 93% EDIT “Finnish filmmaker Teemu Nikki's story about disability moves you for a long list of complicated reasons.” – The Film Verdict Oct 15, 2021 Full Review The Catholic School (2021) 14% EDIT “A paradoxical conclusion that's not at all convincing in a film that elides social and historical analysis and lays an uncomfortable amount of the responsibility on school and family for a terrible true crime.” – The Film Verdict Oct 15, 2021 Full Review The Good Boss (2021) 92% EDIT “Javier Bardem is the main attraction as a smooth-talking factory owner in Fernando Leon de Aranoa's drawing room social satire about modern labor.” – The Film Verdict Oct 15, 2021 Full Review Blue Moon (2021) 67% EDIT “An assured and absorbing first feature; another gift from contemporary Romanian cinema.” – The Film Verdict Oct 15, 2021 Full Review Last Night in Soho (2021) 75% EDIT “A girl's exhilarating mind-trip through swinging London of the Sixties turns wild and woolly and full of zombies in Edgar Wright's multi-genre treat.” – The Film Verdict Oct 15, 2021 Full Review
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