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Pacifiction (2022) 88% EDIT “Ultimately, the film’s greatest feat is in providing moments for delightful reverie through its sumptuous visuals while constantly making clear the colonialist reality of the island...” – Chicago Reader Feb 17, 2023 Full Review Anonymous Club (2021) 86% EDIT “These raw depictions of one’s everyday mental health struggles are occasionally stirring, but Anonymous Club rarely aims to be anything more than that.” – In Review Online Jul 15, 2022 Full Review My Love Affair with Marriage (2022) 90% EDIT “...its ideas are too shallow to be stimulating, and both its scientific passages and animation styles try but fail to paper over that reality. ” – In Review Online Jun 18, 2022 Full Review Naked Gardens (2022) 60% EDIT “Bresnan & Lucas’ approach to cinéma vérité is ultimately lazy, bereft of any imagination or creativity to instill their images with anything beyond banal pseudo-profundity.” – In Review Online Jun 15, 2022 Full Review Mother and Son (2022) 83% EDIT “What’s upsetting about Mother and Son's constant desire for every action to have a point is that everything feels too labored.” – In Review Online May 30, 2022 Full Review Little Nicholas (2022) 94% EDIT “Little Nicholas — Happy as Can Be’s biggest fault is that it’s never as purely pleasurable as the material it draws from.” – In Review Online May 28, 2022 Full Review Getting It Back: The Story of Cymande (2022) 70% EDIT “Mackenzie-Smith is far more interested in blandly explaining obvious revelations than actually revealing them through the strength of images and song.” – In Review Online Mar 14, 2022 Full Review The Novelist's Film (2022) 100% EDIT “In following his own path, and in finding confidence to simply document life, Hong has found a rejuvenating joy thats extended his creative appetite and is palpably life-affirming.” – In Review Online Feb 24, 2022 Full Review The United States of America (2022) EDIT “Theres an impressiveness to the deceit he employs, and its a delight to see Benning deploy a longform gag, but most important is how it highlights the truth underlining the entire movie.” – In Review Online Feb 22, 2022 Full Review We Met in Virtual Reality (2022) 94% EDIT “The ultimate joy of [We Met in Virtual Reality] is how it never removes the viewer from the epistemological reality of those onscreen.” – In Review Online Jan 26, 2022 Full Review TikTok, Boom. (2022) 72% EDIT “There are far too many ideas tackled, and all have been written about countless times ... watching this feels like speed-reading any dozen articles about the app from the past few years.” – In Review Online Jan 24, 2022 Full Review The Velvet Queen (2021) 100% EDIT “The Velvet Queen is instructive ... in having viewers embrace the beauty of a mode of thinking where humans don't have supremacy over the rest of the world.” – In Review Online Dec 21, 2021 Full Review Isolation (2021) 67% EDIT “Isolation never gets past its gimmick, as contrived premises are shoehorned and presented without nuance, failing to capture any real emotions or experiences.” – In Review Online Nov 24, 2021 Full Review Three Minutes - A Lengthening (2021) 100% EDIT “Three Minutes ultimately serves as an adept filmic take on the book it's informed by, functioning as an important, loving memorial.” – In Review Online Nov 16, 2021 Full Review The Killing of Two Lovers (2020) 93% EDIT “Robert Machoian constructs a difficult balance between simple-yet-impressive visual techniques and more frenzied audio compositions to drive an underwhelming narrative.” – In Review Online Jun 6, 2021 Full Review Decade of Fire (2019) 100% 3/4 EDIT “Decade of Fire's purpose is to make known how those in the Bronx must continue to fight even today against forces hellbent on their erasure.” – Slant Magazine May 1, 2019 Full Review Kraben rahu (2018) 100% 3/4 EDIT “Manta Ray functions as an oblique portrait of writer-director Phuttiphong Aroonpheng's anger about the Rohingya refugee crisis in Thailand.” – Slant Magazine Mar 27, 2019 Full Review
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