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  • Mary and Max
  • Saint Omer
  • What Happened Was...
  • Soulmate

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  • Here Before

    ★★★

  • The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse

    ★★★★

  • Before I Disappear

    ★★★★½

  • Talk to Her

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  • Here Before

    Here Before

    ★★★

    A grieving mother. A lost daughter. A girl who feels too familiar. And a mind that starts to slip.

    Psychological thrillers are fun, even more so with good storytelling and strong acting. Andrea Riseborough doesn’t just perform, she inhabits. She makes everything believable. Everything intriguing. Everything convincing. Her presence lingers, haunts, unsettles.

    There are plenty of shots I like. Some moments that stay with me. But as much as I wanted to love it, something holds me back. The tension builds, but the payoff fades. What starts as hypnotic and absorbing becomes messy and underwhelming by the end. Well-acted, well-crafted but not quite enough. Not quite.

  • The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse

    The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse

    ★★★★

    Picked this as a bedtime story. Just something soft to fall asleep to. Instead, I ended up out of bed, reaching for tissues.

    I grew up loving books about friendship, about love, about chosen family. And maybe that’s why I love the way I do now (passionately.) So, it got me thinking what if every kid got to see stories like this, got to hear them, got to feel them. What if every kid learned early how wonderful it is…

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  • Anora

    Anora

    ★★½

    First of all, I hate this film. But I know it’s valuable. I don’t judge people who love eating lobsters, but I hate lobsters. I’m allergic to lobsters. And I hate the inventor of this fucking lobster. Okay, let’s fucking start.

    The film is called Anora, her birth name. But she prefers Ani. And she refuses to speak Russian, despite knowing it and having Russian heritage. Her accent is poor, probably on purpose. I assume she doesn’t want to be…

  • Valparaiso

    Valparaiso

    ★★★★★

    A film that doesn’t just show life, it pulses with it. Poetic, poetic…. poetry in motion. A city: alive, breathing, shifting. People living, simply living. Stairs that lead somewhere, nowhere, everywhere. A vision so pure it aches, so real it soars. It keeps me here. It keeps me alive.

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