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Fedor Tot

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UK-based critic, wide remit but specialising in Balkan and Eastern European cinema

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Juror #2 (2024) 93% A+ EDIT “A series of mirror images, many of them contradictory, combine to say something more meaningful than the sum of its parts.” – Vague Visages Jan 31, 2025 Full Review Who Do I Belong To (2024) 69% EDIT “Who Do I Belong To is social realist cinema at its stodgiest and most self-serious.” – Vague Visages Mar 2, 2024 Full Review Napoleon (2023) 58% EDIT “His willingness to play with the conventions of the genre, even with a mega-budget production, is precisely why this biopic is so refreshing, as Napoleon is very much a repudiation and a revolt against history’s “Great Men.”” – Vague Visages Nov 28, 2023 Full Review Branded to Kill (1967) 100% EDIT “Discordant, broken, berserk: Branded to Kill refuses all direct relations with geography in its depiction of a career hitman on the verge of losing control.” – Vague Visages Nov 7, 2023 Full Review Time and Tide (2000) 64% EDIT “Time and Tide seems to gaze both forward and backwards at once, its breaking down of editing structure creating a strange discombobulating effect.” – Vague Visages Nov 7, 2023 Full Review Twilight (1990) 93% EDIT “Fehér’s setting and use of cinematic space is key to Twilight’s mood.” – Vague Visages Nov 7, 2023 Full Review Detour (1945) 98% EDIT “Detour plays like a fever dream powered by guilt and dread; an existential noir about an American male lost in the nothingness and vastness of the country.” – Vague Visages Nov 7, 2023 Full Review Carriage to Vienna (1966) EDIT “The power of Coach to Vienna today rests in its mythic quality...” – Vague Visages Nov 7, 2023 Full Review Rimini (2022) 100% EDIT “By dint of the fact that Rimini showcases such a vast gulf between performance and direction, Seidl’s return to fictional filmmaking is, if nothing else, hugely interesting.” – Vague Visages Nov 7, 2023 Full Review The Last Ride of the Wolves (2022) EDIT “More moralistic viewers might question if The Last Ride of the Wolves is in reality glamorizing these men, but I think Di Michele is a couple of steps ahead, both embracing that glamorization and distancing the audience from it.” – Vague Visages Nov 7, 2023 Full Review The Story of a Three-Day Pass (1967) 100% EDIT “The constant juxtaposition between the sheer joy of an impromptu summer romance and the reality of the surrounding world is The Story of a Three-Day Pass’ enduring legacy.” – Vague Visages Nov 7, 2023 Full Review #Vader Jacob (2020) EDIT “Vader presents a nuanced and complex picture of fatherhood, as shaped by both individual personalities and wider social events.” – Vague Visages Nov 7, 2023 Full Review Underground (1995) 86% EDIT “Underground remains a controversial and wildly ambitious film, one that refuses to be pinned down. It's a never-ending hall of mirrors that reveals more about the audience than the narrative itself.” – Vague Visages Nov 7, 2023 Full Review Music (2023) 82% EDIT “The rhythms in Music — the shift from one image to the next — make sense in ways that defy obvious explanation, much like the film itself.” – Vague Visages Oct 27, 2023 Full Review The New Boy (2023) 76% EDIT “The New Boy is a film of deep, mystical qualities, and I can’t wait to revisit it.” – Vague Visages Oct 18, 2023 Full Review Housekeeping for Beginners (2023) 94% EDIT “Stolevski’s work has air and breath to it, like someone in love with the energy of simply creating.” – Vague Visages Oct 18, 2023 Full Review My Imaginary Country (2022) 94% 4/5 EDIT “Invigorating insights into a nation at a crossroads” – WeLoveCinema Sep 20, 2023 Full Review Hairspray (1988) 98% 4/5 EDIT “John Waters’ musical finds just the right balance of kitsch and sincerity.” – WeLoveCinema Sep 20, 2023 Full Review Pretty Red Dress (2022) 85% 3/5 EDIT “Alexandra Burke shines in an all-too-neat look at Black identity.” – WeLoveCinema Sep 20, 2023 Full Review Inland (2022) 47% 2/5 EDIT “Rickety Lynch riff only shows splashes of imagination” – WeLoveCinema Sep 20, 2023 Full Review The Super 8 Years (2022) 92% 4/5 EDIT “Astonishing diary film knits together the personal and political” – WeLoveCinema Sep 20, 2023 Full Review Small, Slow But Steady (2022) 100% 4/5 EDIT “Boxing biopic is an uppercut above the rest” – WeLoveCinema Sep 20, 2023 Full Review Smoking Causes Coughing (2022) 94% 4/5 EDIT “Quentin Dupieux pulls off another smart-stupid satire” – WeLoveCinema Sep 20, 2023 Full Review Shabu (2021) 91% 4/5 EDIT “Effortlessly breezy neighbourhood portrait is full of flair” – WeLoveCinema Sep 20, 2023 Full Review While We Watched (2022) 91% 3/5 EDIT “Electric account of what it means to be in the eye of a raging storm” – WeLoveCinema Sep 20, 2023 Full Review
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