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Review

Cette Maison

by Marina Ashioti

Miryam Charles’ debut is a stunning drama that takes direct inspiration from her cousin’s unexpected death.

3
Anticipation
5
Enjoyment
5
In Retrospect
Two people, a man and a woman, standing in a rural landscape with vegetation in the background.
Review

Return to Dust

by David Jenkins

Li Ruijun’s tender, thought-provoking drama is a story about love expressed through action rather than reaction.

3
Anticipation
3
Enjoyment
4
In Retrospect
Two men, one with glasses and a beard and the other with long hair, standing together and looking thoughtful.
Review

Something in the Dirt

by Anton Bitel

Filmmaking duo Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead discover an ominous paranormal entity in their meta fifth feature.

4
Anticipation
4
Enjoyment
5
In Retrospect
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Review

Neptune Frost

by Charles Bramesco

A group of coltan miners form an anti-colonialist computer hacker collective in Saul Williams and Anisia Uzeyman’s Afrofuturist musical.

3
Anticipation
4
Enjoyment
4
In Retrospect
Woman in blue dress and grey shawl stands amidst old wooden crosses in grassy field, with mountains in the background.
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The Wonder

by Lillian Crawford

Sebastián Lelio’s 19th-century drama dwells in the gothic-bucolic as a nurse watches over a girl who has survived months without food.

3
Anticipation
4
Enjoyment
3
In Retrospect
A Mars rover on a rocky, dusty landscape against an orange sky.
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Good Night Oppy

by David Jenkins

Underwhelming and detail-light account of the plucky Mars rover that outlived NASA’s wildest predictions.

3
Anticipation
3
Enjoyment
2
In Retrospect
A man in a suit and tie speaks on a phone inside a dark car, illuminated by the dashboard lights.
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Hunt

by Josh Slater-Williams

Squid Game star Lee Jung-jae stars in his directorial debut, a high-voltage espionage thriller set in 1980s South Korea.

3
Anticipation
4
Enjoyment
4
In Retrospect
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Review

Call Jane

by Leila Latif

Chicago’s Underground Abortion Network and a housewife’s unwanted pregnancy lie at the centre of Phyllis Nagy’s directorial debut.

3
Anticipation
3
Enjoyment
3
In Retrospect
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Review

Living

by Ella Kemp

Oliver Hermanus teams up with Kazuo Ishiguro and Bill Nighy for a British reimagining of Akira Kurosawa’s 1952 masterpiece, Ikiru.

3
Anticipation
4
Enjoyment
4
In Retrospect
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Review

Bros

by Hannah Strong

Billy Eichner and Nicholas Stoller’s gay rom-com isn’t as groundbreaking or as romantic as it likes to think it is.

3
Anticipation
2
Enjoyment