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Venice 2024: Harvest

Harvest could almost be a fable, its dreamlike quality rendered sharply by the decision to shoot this on 16mm film

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Venice 2024: Joker: Folie à Deux

Caught between elevated expectations and concerns that it would not live up to its predecessor, Joker: Folie à Deux tries to break free from both

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Venice 2024: The Room Next Door

The impeccable performances by Julianne Moore and Tilda Swinton undoubtedly carry the film

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Venice 2024: Maria

Pablo Larraín returns to Venice with a non-biopic on another iconic female public figure

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Venice 2024: Nonostante (Feeling Better)

Nonostante offers a quiet and unassuming reflection on life, death, and the space in-between

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Annecy 2024: Diplodocus

It is hard to imagine anyone watching Diplodocus and not having a great time.

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Berlinale 2024: A Different Man

A Different Man is downright ingenious

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Berlinale 2024: Cuckoo

Like the best genre films of the ‘80s, Cuckoo is a set-piece machine

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Berlinale 2024: Love Lies Bleeding

Love Lies Bleeding is unashamedly weird, violent, sexy, and hopeful

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Slamdance 2024: Chaperone

Chaperone is a worthy piece of cinematic exploration that sees a wonderful debut for Zoe Eisenberg!

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SDAFF 2023: Egghead & Twinkie

While the story behind Egghead & Twinkie is wonderful, the actual film itself is a more mixed result.

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SDAFF 2023: Waiting for the Light to Change

Waiting for the Light to Change is one of the most powerful films of the year.

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AFI Fest 2023: Freud’s Last Session

While there is clear potential within Freud’s Last Session, the film gets lost in its ambition and various perspectives.

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TIFF 2023: How to Have Sex

The layers, restraint, emotional depth and ultimately execution of this venture is exemplary to a degree that it’s almost astonishing to note

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San Sebastian 2023: Gamma Rays

Gamma Rays is a feature that doesn’t shy away from severity and seriousness

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TIFF 2023: The Settlers ‘Los Colons’

Los Colons is the atypical feature from a film festival

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Venice 2023: Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person

A surprisingly soulful outing that twists the conventional tale and lore of its subject with authentic and ironic human endeavours

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Venice 2023: Vivants

It is quite hard to tell what Vivants is and wants to say

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Venice 2023: The Captain

Provides a fresh and much-needed new take on the theme of migration

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Venice 2023: God is a Woman (Dieu est une femme)

God is a Woman is genuinely breathtaking to witness