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Jonathan Holland

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Three Goodbyes (2025) EDIT “[Has] a judicious, low-key approach to the performances and presentation of this potentially soppy material; careful attention to the truthfulness of the relationships; and a quietly devastating final act.” – Screen International Nov 20, 2025 Full Review The Captive (2025) 71% EDIT “The film’s key relationship between Cervantes and the governor, Amenabar’s one radical twist on the author’s story, never really takes flight. His Cervantes thus remains somewhat generic.” – Screen International Sep 11, 2025 Full Review Irvine Welsh: Reality Is Not Enough (2025) EDIT “Some nostalgists might resent the material successes of their favourite punk writer so shamelessly embracing the trappings of fame, but what it in fact adds up to is an entertaining and thoughtful portrait of a man who, after everything, has chosen life.” – Screen International Aug 21, 2025 Full Review A Poet (2025) 100% EDIT “This is very much Oscar’s film, and Rios plays him to perfection. ” – Screen International May 29, 2025 Full Review Sleepless City (2025) 86% EDIT “It succeeds brilliantly in bringing centre stage a small, much misunderstood world which too often remains conveniently hidden from view.” – Screen International May 20, 2025 Full Review Little Amélie or the Character of Rain (2025) 98% EDIT “Little Amelie is, despite occasional inevitable lapses into sentimentality, visually engrossing and thought-provoking fare that ranges daringly across emotions ranging from pure delight to fear and horror.” – Screen International May 20, 2025 Full Review Olmo (2025) EDIT “Spare, minimalist treatment, compassion and wry, deadpan humour define this story about the tragicomic efforts of the titular teenager to make his way, against all the odds, to a party. ” – Screen International Mar 17, 2025 Full Review The Devil Smokes (2025) EDIT “Potent atmospherics and stellar performances from its mainly sub-teen cast are the main takeaways from an item that should generate further festival interest.” – Screen International Mar 17, 2025 Full Review Deaf (2025) 100% EDIT “The film authentically explores the challenges faced by deaf individuals in a hearing world without ever feeling patronising or preachy. A low-key crowd pleaser, Deaf should travel after its Berlin Panorama premiere.” – Screen International Feb 15, 2025 Full Review Cutting Through Rocks (2025) 100% EDIT “Husband-and-wife team Sara Khaki and Mohammadreza Eyni document the first glimmers of social change with honesty, subtlety and guarded optimism, and their compelling film looks set to cut through.” – Screen International Jan 28, 2025 Full Review Mad Bills to Pay (or Destiny, dile que no soy malo) (2025) 85% EDIT “This amiable, down-to-earth take on a young New Yorker’s struggles to find a role for himself has its flaws, but they can be forgiven on account of Rico (Juan Collado), its shambolic, supremely chill and ever-present protagonist. ” – Screen International Jan 27, 2025 Full Review A Missing Part (2024) 100% EDIT “Jay reflects the film itself -- its leanness, tautness, and efficiency will, we feel, be unable to contain the messiness of the emotions carrying it along, and the result is tense and very rewarding.” – Screen International Nov 13, 2024 Full Review The Antique (2024) EDIT “This carefully crafted, darkly surreal and politically engaged film subtly depicts how state power moulds us, its deceptively amiable mood simmering with underlying violence from the very first frame before it later ignites. ” – Screen International Nov 12, 2024 Full Review Alpha. (2024) EDIT “[Alpha.] is itself rather cold in its detachment and refusal to engage viewer emotions. But Alpha’s careful structuring and formal daring, and its often-subtle take on the tricky issue of masculine identity, make it ideal festival fare. ” – Screen International Nov 11, 2024 Full Review Salve Maria (2024) EDIT “Remains a powerful and sensitive take on a tremendously difficult subject, one that is often flirted with in film but rarely addressed so directly. ” – Screen International Oct 26, 2024 Full Review Rita (2024) EDIT “Rita’s authentic attention to detail, fine performances and carefully honed atmospherics make it work, merging the child’s-eye view with the adult perspective on that childhood. ” – Screen International Oct 23, 2024 Full Review Párvulos: Children of the Apocalypse (2024) 88% EDIT “Parvulos is a visually stylish film, shot largely in monochrome tones but with moments of colour reserved for special moments.” – Screen International Sep 30, 2024 Full Review They Will Be Dust (2024) 100% EDIT “An admirably unsentimental and involving end-of-life drama that comes, unusually, peppered with dance sequences. The film could have perfectly well been played as straight drama, carried by performances from veterans Angela Molina and Alfredo Castro. ” – Screen International Sep 18, 2024 Full Review Anywhere Anytime (2024) 90% EDIT “It is at moments like these that Anywhere Anytime shows it is a truly worthy successor of, and not just a homage to, the de Sica classic [Bicycle Thieves] that is always looking over its shoulder.” – Screen International Sep 1, 2024 Full Review Xibalba Monster (2024) EDIT “A fascinating fusion of light and darkness, rooted in a striking central performance by the young Rogelio Ojeda. Although it crams a little too much into its short running time, it represents a distinctive calling card for first-timer Irene.” – Screen International Aug 28, 2024 Full Review Baby (2024) 100% EDIT “Baby can be defined by the terrific job it does in eking out gentleness from the most unexpected of places.” – Screen International May 21, 2024 Full Review The Other Way Around (2024) 91% EDIT “Aside from all the cinematographic playfulness and philosophical flirtation, viewers need a relationship and characters they can invest in, and the winsome Ale/Alex tandem delivers. ” – Screen International May 20, 2024 Full Review Savanna and the Mountain (2024) 88% EDIT “The result is an unusually gentle David and Goliath tale, a winsome, slow-burning charmer whose warm heart means it can be forgiven for failing to address some of the large climate change issues that it is implicitly raising. ” – Screen International May 19, 2024 Full Review The Hyperboreans (2024) 100% EDIT “Parts of The Hyberboreans... are stunning, other parts are tiresome and pretentious; but none of it is boring, and it looks set to consolidate the directors’ reputation as producers of a distinctive, politically provocative form of animation. ” – Screen International May 19, 2024 Full Review Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed (2024) 100% EDIT “The fallout of running a clandestine gambling business on a Buenos Aires family is explored to compelling and intense effect in Hernan Rosselli’s second feature, Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed.” – Screen International May 16, 2024 Full Review
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