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That Summer in Paris
(2025)
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Ayelet Dekel
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Valentine Cadic’s debut feature is quietly bold in its juxtaposition of the excitement of the 2024 Olympics in Paris with the narrative of an unconventional protagonist.
Posted Jan 22, 2026
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Rental Family
(2025)
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Ayelet Dekel
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Transactional relationships are given a positive spin in Hikari’s Rental Family, starring Brendan Fraser as Phillip Vanderploeg, an American actor living in Japan.
Posted Jan 18, 2026
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The Secret Agent
(2025)
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Ayelet Dekel
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Moving freely between different timelines and diverse genres, Mendonça takes the viewer on a provocative and intricate path, strewn with surprises.
Posted Jan 15, 2026
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Sound of Falling
(2025)
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Ayelet Dekel
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Sound of Falling is mesmerizing, vast, and mysterious... reminds the viewer from the start that our eyes can deceive us, that what we see is not necessarily what is true. Exquisitely detailed and assertively non-linear, the film drifts through time
Posted Dec 25, 2025
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Anaconda
(2025)
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Ayelet Dekel
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It’s a hilarious adventure and strikes a very precise chord in its evocation of the desire to relive the giddy exhilaration of creating something together with friends.
Posted Dec 25, 2025
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Eleanor the Great
(2025)
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Ayelet Dekel
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June Squibb is magnificent; I could watch her forever. There is a moment when she is in the midst of the great lie, when Eleanor says something true, and Squibb makes you feel it.
Posted Nov 06, 2025
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American Baby
(2025)
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Ayelet Dekel
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Ellen Rodnianski sensitively conveys the climate of our time through the experiences of Oli, a 15-year-old girl living in a small Texas town.
Posted Nov 03, 2025
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Left-Handed Girl
(2025)
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Ayelet Dekel
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Shih-Ching Tsou dazzles in her solo directorial feature debut, Left-Handed Girl. The film is suffused with the colors and flow of Taipei
Posted Oct 10, 2025
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Holy Cow
(2024)
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Ayelet Dekel
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a charming, warm-hearted coming-of-age film, grounded in the land and people of the Jura region of France.
Posted Jul 31, 2025
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Ballerina
(2025)
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Ayelet Dekel
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Elegant and lethal, Ana de Armas exudes John Wick worthy cool as Eve Macarro in this entertaining spin-off.
Posted Jun 07, 2025
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Lilo & Stitch
(2025)
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Ayelet Dekel
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Lilo & Stitch is a fun and heartwarming film on an intimate, rather than a grand scale, as well as being thoroughly entertaining.
Posted May 22, 2025
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Thunderbolts*
(2025)
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Ayelet Dekel
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Thunderbolts* enthusiastically delivers all the fast-paced action, intrigue, and adrenaline infused thrills one expects from the MCU, but just as compelling and integral to the narrative is the emotional force of the film.
Posted May 10, 2025
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A Nice Indian Boy
(2024)
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Ayelet Dekel
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Romance prevails in A Nice Indian Boy, a feel-good film with a sensitive and intelligent perspective on the complex intersections of cultural traditions, queerness, love and family.
Posted Apr 22, 2025
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Real Estate
(2023)
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Ayelet Dekel
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Malz, who wrote, directed, and edited the film, observes her characters with a piercing gaze that reveals all the rough edges and cracks, their strengths and vulnerabilities, the dazzling mystery of the human soul. She views them with humor and empathy
Posted Apr 20, 2025
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Captain America: Brave New World
(2025)
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Ayelet Dekel
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Mackie, as Wilson, expresses the human vulnerability of Captain America, bringing a different kind of suspense to the fight scenes, and an interesting philosophical twist to the superhero series.
Posted Feb 27, 2025
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Brief History of a Family
(2024)
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Ayelet Dekel
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Jianjie Lin’s Brief History of a Family explores the tensions, power struggles, dangers, and desires of family life... moving and suspenseful, with excellent performances from an ensemble cast.
Posted Feb 07, 2025
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A Complete Unknown
(2024)
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Ayelet Dekel
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An intense performance by Timothée Chalamet reveals Dylan through his songs...A Complete Unknown expresses the feeling of the music and its effect, and captures the essence of Dylan in letting Dylan remain somewhat mysterious.
Posted Feb 06, 2025
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September 5
(2024)
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Ayelet Dekel
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Suspenseful and taut, September 5 is a thriller marked by strong performances that is centered on true events, as well as ethical dilemmas that remain relevant to this day.
Posted Jan 29, 2025
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Souleymane's Story
(2024)
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Ayelet Dekel
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Souleymane’s Story is a moving, suspenseful, and visceral depiction of the immigrant experience
Posted Jan 17, 2025
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Moana 2
(2024)
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Ayelet Dekel
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Moana 2 is a visually appealing, entertaining, adventure, yet never goes beyond
Posted Nov 28, 2024
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Bad Genius
(2024)
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Ayelet Dekel
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Suspense, sheer fun, and social critique in an academic setting make Bad Genius the perfect film for back-to-school escapist pleasure.
Posted Sep 12, 2024
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Art College 1994
(2023)
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Ayelet Dekel
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a fond, yet discerning and humorous look at student life in a beautiful 2D animated film. Set, as the title indicates, in the mid-90s, the film expresses the aspirations, reflections, and feelings, of art and music students in a changing China.
Posted Sep 08, 2024
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There's Still Tomorrow
(2023)
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Ayelet Dekel
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Cortellesi makes use of cinematic cultural archetypes familiar to cinephiles and infuses those dramatic tropes with humor and artistic inventiveness...An outstanding directorial feature debut.
Posted Aug 16, 2024
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It Ends With Us
(2024)
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Ayelet Dekel
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The film’s emotional trajectory is gripping, and Blake Lively delivers a luminous performance as Lily.
Posted Aug 12, 2024
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Inside Out 2
(2024)
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Ayelet Dekel
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I’ve seen Inside Out 2 twice now, and although it didn’t sweep me off my feet the way that Inside Out did, it didn’t let me go.
Posted Jul 13, 2024
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Kinds of Kindness
(2024)
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Ayelet Dekel
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Kinds of Kindness is an unsettling film, riveting, disturbing, and with its own dark humor and quirky beauty.
Posted Jun 21, 2024
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IF
(2024)
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Ayelet Dekel
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IF has the same magical effect as a child’s drawing: the lines may be wobbly, the colors and proportions strange, but somehow, it fills your heart with warmth.
Posted May 30, 2024
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The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare
(2024)
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Ayelet Dekel
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Suspenseful and action-packed, the film scintillates with Ritchie’s flair for a sprinting pace spiked by comic panache and the occasional exquisite dissonance between Christopher Benstead’s jazzy score and overwhelming danger.
Posted Apr 18, 2024
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Bob Marley: One Love
(2024)
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Ayelet Dekel
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Ben-Adir portrays Marley with a radiant authenticity... watching the film one almost feels that he is Marley, especially in the concert scenes, as he is one with the music, his body a vessel, the music a spiritual storm moving through it.
Posted Feb 15, 2024
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Poor Things
(2023)
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Ayelet Dekel
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Yorgos Lanthimos fearlessly dives into the treacherous waters of ambivalence with Poor Things, a luxuriously textured film that revels in the bizarre, and touches the elusive, shifting truth of human feelings as they glimmer in the depths.
Posted Jan 25, 2024
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How to Have Sex
(2023)
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Ayelet Dekel
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captures the hedonistic, vibrant joy of being young and free, as well as the acute insecurities and fears of youth. Intelligently wrought, fast-paced, visually compelling, and hard-hitting, conveying the complex nuances of friendship, sex, and consent
Posted Jan 18, 2024
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Ferrari
(2023)
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Ayelet Dekel
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Adam Driver delivers a searing performance in his portrayal of a man who has built an empire, his controlled demeanor an act of powerful will, concealing the fire within. Mann’s film conveys the thrill of racing, always shadowed by death.
Posted Dec 31, 2023
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Cora Bora
(2023)
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Ayelet Dekel
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Stalter shines as Cora, with a terrific sense of timing, shifting from one turbulent emotion to another in the blink of an eye, as she bounds from one misadventure to the next
Posted Dec 27, 2023
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Killers of the Flower Moon
(2023)
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Ayelet Dekel
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a moving American epic that exposes the violence and injustice in the history of the nation, telling a gripping tale of systemic discrimination, greed, and murder...
Posted Dec 24, 2023
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May December
(2023)
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Ayelet Dekel
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May December, Todd Hayne’s riveting, comic, yet poignant look at the ghoulish curiosity of the human mind, the blurring of lines between performance and feeling, and the moral red lines we cross to achieve our desires.
Posted Nov 23, 2023
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Three Nights A Week
(2022)
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Ayelet Dekel
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It’s an incredibly feel-good movie, with a competition to be won, and a road trip, yet conveys the complexities of desire, sexuality, insecurities, and identity in relationships.
Posted Aug 16, 2023
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Maybe Someday
(2022)
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Ayelet Dekel
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it is a quietly powerful film – Ehlen dares to go deep, and it is resonant in its depiction of heartbreak, depression, friendship, love and healing. And it’s funny – imbued with Ehlen’s dry humor and the comedy of the human predicament.
Posted Aug 06, 2023
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Àma Gloria
(2023)
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Ayelet Dekel
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Àma Gloria tells a familiar story from a different perspective, with warmth and honesty...Cléo is vividly portrayed by Louise Mauroy-Panzani, whose eloquent gaze and body language convey the intricate, inner world of a child’s thoughts and feelings.
Posted Jul 22, 2023
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Joy Ride
(2023)
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Ayelet Dekel
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Joy Ride is the crazy wonderful fun that can happen onscreen when movies fully embrace diverse representation. Outrageous, bawdy, and hilarious, director Adele Lim puts an Asian, feminist, sex-positive spin on the “friends trip gone bizarre” film
Posted Jul 06, 2023
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No Hard Feelings
(2023)
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Ayelet Dekel
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No Hard Feelings is funny, silly, sexy, outrageous, at times creepy and cringe-inducing, and yet also surprisingly thought-provoking for a sex comedy. Jennifer Lawrence flexes her comedy muscles...Andrew Barth Feldman is a terrific discovery
Posted Jun 22, 2023
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Elemental
(2023)
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Ayelet Dekel
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Lively fun animation; an imaginative metaphor; a moving depiction of immigration and first-generation issues; and romance...so much fun to watch...full of humor, yet perhaps in trying to do so much, does not achieve the depth to which it aspires.
Posted Jun 15, 2023
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The Little Mermaid
(2023)
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Ayelet Dekel
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Halle Bailey brings the magic to The Little Mermaid, the enchantment of her voice compares to the most enticing of sirens, and in her gaze and smile she conveys Ariel’s curiosity and sense of adventure.
Posted May 25, 2023
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Pianoforte
(2023)
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Ayelet Dekel
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Pianoforte is a fascinating look behind the scenes of the competition, as seen primarily through the experiences of 6 competitors
Posted May 13, 2023
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Love to Love You, Donna Summer
(2023)
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Ayelet Dekel
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a daughter – Brooklyn – trying to understand her mother, and trying to reconcile the different, contradictory aspects of a woman also known as the “first lady of love” who, later in life, became a born-again Christian...a very engaging film.
Posted May 13, 2023
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Miúcha, the Voice of Bossa Nova
(2022)
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Ayelet Dekel
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based entirely on her own diaries, letters, recordings, and watercolors... The film follows the trajectory of Miúcha’s life in chronological order, and in her experiences one can also see a reflection of the changes in women’s lives during those times.
Posted May 13, 2023
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Guy Ritchie's The Covenant
(2023)
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Ayelet Dekel
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Guy Ritchie’s The Covenant delivers the action and suspense expected from the war movie genre and from Ritchie, yet ventures beyond expectations to create a moving drama.
Posted Apr 20, 2023
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Nelly & Nadine
(2022)
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Ayelet Dekel
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Nelly and Nadine’s story is a magnificent romance, as thrilling as any fiction, and all the more compelling in its truth. Omnia vincit amor.
Posted Apr 06, 2023
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Rosa's Wedding
(2020)
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Ayelet Dekel
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A light-hearted, whimsical film that takes on meaningful issues, Rosa’s Wedding (La boda de Rosa) is anchored by Candela Peña’s vibrant performance as Rosa.
Posted Mar 07, 2023
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Girl Picture
(2022)
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Ayelet Dekel
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The film is at its best in conveying the emotional ups and downs, intimacy, and support, as well as the awkward moments in teen relationships.
Posted Mar 04, 2023
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Dos Estaciones
(2022)
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Ayelet Dekel
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an eloquent portrait of an individual – María, the owner of a tequila factory, yet it is as much a portrait of the land and the community, as the three are so closely interconnected.
Posted Mar 03, 2023
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