Sam Hobson, Journalist
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The Small Town
"The film itself (his first!) isn't as powerful as his most recent films, but it's a glorious movie nonetheless, and can definitely be read in scenes and gestures as a prototype of his later works."
Cemetery Of Splendour
"Cemetery Of Splendour continues the director's penchant for mixing the surreal with the real."
Ivy
"Things get deliciously metaphorical and hallucinatory, and the ship's looming, haunted architecture is really mined for all it's worth."
Sherpa
"Sherpa is a film that looks gorgeous until it's truly horrifying."
The Look Of Silence
"A film so tightly wound with rage and grief that watching it is just as exhausting as it is devastating."
Wild
"'Wild' finds Reese Witherspoon’s Cheryl Strayed turning to a three-month trek in a state of exhausted desperation."
Fireworks Wednesday
"A tactile and immensely fulfilling film, it finds truth and beauty in modest moments."
Black Coal, Thin Ice
"A genuinely difficult film to relax into, but a captivating watch nonetheless."
Angels Of Revolution
"Can be enjoyed as a spectacle of human creation nonetheless."
A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night
"There are some wonderfully stark images in the film."
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