Review: Paths of the Soul

It achieves an astonishing immediacy by simply allowing the prostration process to play out over and over with minimal aesthetic interference.

Review: The Mend

The film is defined by its staunch refusal to clarify its characters’ emotional issues, marooning them instead in the messes those emotions have wrought.

Review: Amnesiac

The film’s concern for the reclamation of identity is less important than the dull approximation of The Others’s stark haunted-house atmospherics.

Review: Samba

Even as Samba struggles to hold onto his identity, the film becomes entangled in an identity crisis of its own.

Review: Runoff

This emotionally affecting film never loses sight of the ethical complexity of forsaking a community in the name of an individual.

Review: Balls Out

This is a sports movie actually attuned to the knowledge that victory in an inconsequential game bears no meaning.

Review: October Gale

Ruba Nadda’s film begins as a moodily introspective drama about grief before implausibly morphing into a stale thriller.

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