Rating: 2.5★
There's a version of She Paradise that I think would have been genuinely special. You can feel it in the bones of the thing, in its colours and its music and above all in the young woman at its centre. Director Maya Cozier clearly has a gift for
Rating: 1.5★
There's a version of Pacifiction that I would have loved. A French colonial administrator drifting through the bars, beaches and clubs of Tahiti, wielding soft power with a smile, colliding with locals in ways that expose something ugly and true about privilege and empire. That film sounds genuinely
Rating: 1.0★
Twenty minutes. That's all it asks of you. And yet somehow, Candomblé in Togo still manages to feel like an imposition. Directed by José Agripino de Paula, this 1972 short is, by any honest measure, barely a film. What you get is handheld footage of traditional Candomblé dancing,
Rating: 3.5★
There's a question at the heart of Simón that I couldn't shake long after the credits rolled: what does it actually mean to fight for something? Not in the abstract, flag-waving sense, but in the grinding, personal, what-do-I-owe-this-cause sense. Diego
Rating: 3.0★
There's a particular kind of documentary that doesn't try to dazzle you, doesn't reach for a grand rhetorical flourish, and doesn't resolve into a satisfying conclusion. Island Soldier is that kind of film, and I mean that as both a compliment and
Rating: 4.0★
There's a moment in Cachada: The Opportunity when you realise the film you're watching has quietly become something else entirely. What started as a modest community project, five female street vendors gathering for a spot of amateur dramatics framed as a lighthearted empowerment exercise, has turned
Rating: 3.0★
There's a moment early in You Won't Be Alone where the landscape itself feels like a character, brooding and enormous and indifferent to the tiny, violent lives being lived across it. That image lodged in my head. It's the kind of film that gets
Rating: 3.5★
There are films you see at the right moment in your life that hit like a thunderclap, and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon was exactly that for me. I was a wide-eyed teenager picking up what felt like a "decent" rental, and what I got was something closer
Rating: 2.5★
There's a version of When Evil Lurks that could have been one of the great modern horror films. The practical effects alone are worth acknowledging: grotesque, inventive, and crafted with a genuine commitment to physical horror that puts most studio genre fare to shame. The makeup work is
Rating: 3.5★
There's a moment early in Ema where the camera just sits with its subject as she moves through a neon-lit Santiago street, reggaeton thumping beneath her, and you realise you're not going to be given any easy way into this woman. She's magnetic
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I watched a film from every country on Earth. Now it is time to find out which one wins in a head to head knockout tournament.
Rating: 3.0★
There's a specific kind of heartbreak that comes not from a dramatic falling out or a grand betrayal, but from the quiet, creeping realisation that time is running out. That's the feeling I'm Drunk, I Love You is chasing, and for the most part,
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