Psychological drama Murina masterfully unfolds like a nightmare, as it follows an abusive father and the control he exhibits over his wife and daughter.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 18, 2024

A film of natural beauty and human ugliness, a slow burn of a psychological drama that uses volatile teenage emotions as its incendiary fuel.

Full Review | Dec 2, 2023

It makes subtle and impactful statements of female allegories, misogyny, and toxic manhood — a dramatic movie shot on a paradise island, with escalating tension and beautiful visuals.

Full Review | Sep 8, 2023

Murina is a coming-of-age story in the guise of a thriller. Kusijanović prioritizes emotional violence, which only escalates from start to finish, brought to life by a gifted cast, Gracija Filipović (a professional swimmer) above all.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | May 8, 2023

Murina slowly reveals the discrepancy between the beauty of the natural surroundings and the simmering tensions within a family that make their living by fishing.

Full Review | Original Score: 8/10 | Jan 2, 2023

Films like Murina make me incredibly happy. They are, to me, what cinema is meant to be about. Resonant stories full of rich emotion and complicated humanity.

Full Review | Dec 28, 2022

It's a predictable melodrama that turns out to be not so predictable.

Full Review | Original Score: B | Dec 15, 2022

Murina has an erotic charge similar to The Postman Always Rings Twice, the classic noir about a torrid affair between a charismatic outsider and the younger wife of a domineering man.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 3, 2022

Filipović is a real discovery: A rebel in a dazzling white swimsuit that’s like a middle finger raised to the patriarchy.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 23, 2022

An intense and well-acted psychodrama about misogyny.

Full Review | Original Score: 4.5/5 | Sep 21, 2022

Antoneta Alamat Kusijanovic’s debut film, Murina, is a gorgeous, thoughtful exploration of teenage girlhood, abuse, and finding your own way out of oppression.

Full Review | Sep 21, 2022

Croatian filmmaker Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović expertly breaks down the forced servitude and the brutal familial mechanisms of a certain kind of Balkan machismo.

Full Review | Sep 16, 2022

An excellent central performance and composed, unhurried handling make Murina a film to get lost in.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 10, 2022

Antoneta Alamat Kusijanovic’s Camera d’or winning feature debut recharges the coming-of-age story with multi-generational sexual heat and a constant threat of danger in a sun-splashed, Adriatic setting.

Full Review | Original Score: B+ | Aug 28, 2022

Murina has a terrific keep-you-guessing plot, and Filipović’s performance firmly establishes her as a talent to watch.

Full Review | Aug 3, 2022

e coming-of-age tropes used here (blossoming sexuality, overprotective fathers, desire for freedom) can be traced back to countless better movies.

Full Review | Original Score: C+ | Jul 30, 2022

First time Croatian co-writer/director Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović demonstrates a mature, profound insight into human psychology, male and female, young and middle-aged, in her feature film debut Murina.

Full Review | Jul 28, 2022

A slow-churning, disquieting tale of a young woman's revelation that her life could have been entirely different than what it is, and her empowerment to change her future.

Full Review | Jul 25, 2022

Wonderful scenery, some good performances, very moody and not quite as predictable as one would think when it starts out.

Full Review | Jul 22, 2022

Combines fervent ideas, literary-style symbolism, and an enthusiasm - almost a hunger - for transforming idiosyncratic locations and people into cinematic landscapes.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jul 22, 2022