Contributions from Rafa Sales Ross | Little White Lies

Contributor Rafa Sales Ross

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The Quiet Son – first-look review

by Rafa Sales Ross

Vin­cent Lin­don stars as a wid­ow­er try­ing to steer his young song away from the far right in the Coulin Sis­ters’ frus­trat­ing drama.
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I’m Still Here – first-look review

by Rafa Sales Ross

Wal­ter Salles returns to nar­ra­tive film­mak­ing with a sen­si­tive depic­tion of the forced dis­ap­pear­ance of for­mer con­gress­man Rubens Pai­va, and the dev­as­ta­tion his fam­i­ly faced.
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The Order – first-look review

by Rafa Sales Ross

Justin Kurzel heads to Amer­i­ca for his lat­est ripped-from-the-head­lines dra­ma, about the white suprema­cist group found­ed in the Pacif­ic North­west by Robert Jay Math­ews and respon­si­ble for numer­ous ter­ror­ist acts through­out the 1980s.
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Disclaimer – first-look review

by Rafa Sales Ross

Alfon­so Cuarón’s lim­it­ed series star­ring Cate Blanchett as a famous doc­u­men­tar­i­an with a dark secret is a sur­pris­ing show­case for Kevin Kline.
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Motel Destino – first-look review

by Rafa Sales Ross

A young enforcer for a Brazil­ian gang­ster finds him­self hid­ing out at a sleazy sex hotel in Karim Aïnouz’s neo-noir.
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Lula – first-look review

by Rafa Sales Ross

Oliv­er Stone’s por­trait of Brazil’s beloved pres­i­dent sad­ly fails to real­ly cap­ture what it is that makes Lula da Sil­va such a gal­vanis­ing polit­i­cal force.
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Four Daughters review – successfully bypasses the traps of the gratuitous

by Rafa Sales Ross

The lat­est doc­u­men­tary from Tunisian direc­tor Kaouther Ben Hania cen­ters a quar­tet of young women whose lives are changed for­ev­er when two of them join ISIS.

3
Anticipation
3
Enjoyment
3
In Retrospect
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Menus-Plaisirs Les Troisgros – first-look review

by Rafa Sales Ross

In his lat­est doc­u­men­tary, the Amer­i­can mas­ter Fred­er­ick Wise­man observes the rou­tines of the Trois­gros fam­i­ly and their three fine din­ing restau­rants in France.
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Housekeeping for Beginners – first-look review

by Rafa Sales Ross

Goran Stolevski’s third fea­ture is a sto­ry of queer sol­i­dar­i­ty in North­ern Mace­do­nia that does­n’t quite come together.
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Past Lives review – unravels as a marvel

by Rafa Sales Ross

Celine Song’s fea­ture debut is a ten­der explo­ration of mul­ti­eth­nic romance, com­pli­ment­ed by nuanced per­for­mances from Gre­ta Lee and John Magaro.

4
Anticipation
4
Enjoyment
4
In Retrospect