The film ultimately doesn’t discover very much unexplored thematic space of its own.
The effect of Diop’s documentary is haunting and powerful.
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The film may be the first to find a sweet spot between Dumb and Dumber and a nature doc.
Unable to commit to realism or absurdity, the film fails to live up to the promise of its title.
Visually and aurally, it’s easy to get as caught up in the world of the film as its characters do.
Assayas’s film is a gently smart and warm-spirited look at love in a time of stasis.
The at times meticulous realism of Tim Mielant’s film eventually gives way to hokey drama.
Throughout Chan’s film, comic irreverence intermingles with cosmic coincidences.
Paul B. Preciado’s documentary quite aptly languishes in an undefinable interstitial space.
The film deploys genre cues only to sidestep their expected payoffs and moral resolutions.
Bas Devos’s trademark placidity and restraint constitutes a challenge to narrative convention.
The series displays some of the inevitable wear of a concept that has already gotten more mileage than anticipated.
The first season of gets an image/sound presentation that’s practically beyond reproach.
The show’s second season is structured less around storylines than around feelings.
The show’s second season exudes even more of the breezy freshness of a back-to-basics TV series than the first.
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The film interrogates both the state of our world and the lines between fiction and document.
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The film captures the textures of a life that’s not defined solely by anti-trans oppression.
Like Petite Maman itself, Criterion’s Blu-ray is deceptively simple but packed with riches.
The film invites us to read between the lines, to infer story from indirect signifiers.
Afire captures complex human interactions with a clear-minded sobriety.