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GREEN BORDER: Intention Versus Execution
GREEN BORDER: Intention Versus Execution

All these errors in execution aside, Green Border should raise international awareness of what’s happening to these refugees on the European border.

Cannes Film Festival 2024: THE GIRL WITH THE NEEDLE & WILD DIAMOND
Cannes Film Festival 2024: THE GIRL WITH THE NEEDLE & WILD DIAMOND

From Cannes Film Festival, Wilson Kwong reviews
Magnus von Horn’s The Girl with the Needle and Agathe Riedinger’s Wild Diamond.

KUBRICK ON KUBRICK: I's Wide Open
KUBRICK ON KUBRICK: I’s Wide Open

For Monro’s Kubrick on Kubrick, decoding Kubrick’s films with the director’s own words serves as an excellent chance to write his own artful tale

APOLONIA, APOLONIA: Portrait Of An Artist By A Filmmaker
APOLONIA, APOLONIA: Portrait Of An Artist By A Filmmaker

Apolonia Apolonia manages to paint a fairly engaging portrait of an artist discovering the intimate balance between success and her freedoms as an artist.

New York Film Festival 2023: THE ZONE OF INTEREST
New York Film Festival 2023: THE ZONE OF INTEREST

Jonathon Glazer’s The Zone of Interest is a hauntingly reverberating film that will stick with its audience long after the film has concluded.

Fantastic Fest 2023: MUSHROOMS
Fantastic Fest 2023: MUSHROOMS

Mushrooms is a dark fairy tale, reverberating elements of the Brothers Grimm while grounding its revelations in modern horror.

Tribeca Film Festival 2023: APOLONIA, APOLONIA
Tribeca Film Festival 2023: APOLONIA, APOLONIA

What results is an engrossing, often painful, always warm portrait of the challenges of wanting to make art in a world hostile to the prospect.

MY NEIGHBOUR ADOLF: Uneven And Tonally Unsure
MY NEIGHBOUR ADOLF: Uneven And Tonally Unsure

My Neighbour Adolf had within its DNA the potential for something good, but alas an inability to strike a consistent tone means the talents of its stars.

NYFF 2022: EO
New York Film Festival 2022: EO

At times a deeply moving portrait of our treatment of animals, while other times a sense of existential realism, EO proves itself to be full of heart.

APPLES: A Dry And Colorless Dark Comedy
APPLES: A Dry And Colorless Dark Comedy

Despite its humorous undertones, Christos Nikou’s Apples can’t overcome a frustratingly muted and opaque style.

KILL IT AND LEAVE THIS TOWN: A Markedly Somber & Mesmerizing Animated Journey
KILL IT AND LEAVE THIS TOWN: A Markedly Somber & Mesmerizing Animated Journey

Mariusz Wilczynski’s Kill It and Leave This Town is art in its purest form; sincere, evocative, and intimate.

Toronto International Film Festival 2020: APPLES: A Mesmerising Exploration Of Identity, Memory and Grief
Toronto International Film Festival 2020: APPLES: A Mesmerising Exploration Of Identity, Memory and Grief

Apples is a gritty, subversive take on identity, memory and grief and an outstanding first feature from Greek director Christos Nikou.

“Without This Kind of Journalism, Democracy Won’t Survive”: Interview with Agnieszka Holland, Director of MR. JONES
“Without This Kind Of Journalism, Democracy Won’t Survive”: Interview With Agnieszka Holland, Director Of MR. JONES

Lee Jutton spoke with Agnieszka Holland about her film Mr. Jones, the most surprising thing she learned while making the film, and the role of journalism in keeping democracy alive today.

MR. JONES: There’s Danger to Be Found in the Truth
MR. JONES: There’s Danger To Be Found In The Truth

Mr. Jones highlights the need for investigative journalism even in a world where hard evidence can be met with accusations of untruth.

YOUNG AHMED + CORPUS CHRISTI : Paths of Light and Dark
Religion In YOUNG AHMED And CORPUS CHRISTI: Paths Of Light & Dark

Young Ahmed and Corpus Christi both examine religion and its grip on the individual. Soham Gadre reviews both.