Movie Review: Dreaming & Dying
Screened at El Gouna Film Festival 2023 One-liner: While modest, disconnected, naive and outlandish, this is an absurb, quirky, original
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Movie Review: Q
Screened at El Gouna Film Festival 2023 One-liner: While distant and obscured, this remains a haunting, intimate and wistful family
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Movie Review: Hollywoodgate
Screened at El Gouna Film Festival 2023 One-liner: A bold, entertaining, unsettling, thought-provoking and unprecedented fly-on-the-wall war documentary and cautionary
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Movie Review: Anatomy of a Fall
Screened at El Gouna Film Festival 2023 One-liner: A nuanced lead performance elevates this elegant, well-acted, intricately written and powerful
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Movie Review: Runs in the Family
One-liner: While modest and familiar even, this is a charming, entertaining, layered, well-acted and surprisingly heartfelt road movie. Runs in
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Movie Review: The Miracle Club
One-liner: solid performances, immersive storytelling and powerful themes anchor this blandly amusing coming-of-age drama. The Miracle Club is a small
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Movie Review: Past Lives
One-liner: While familiar, this is a beautifully composed, gentle, haunting, nostalgic, powerful, tender and well-acted romance drama portrait. It’s written
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Movie Review: Killers of the Flower Moon
Following displacement, the native American Osage bought their own reservation, retaining mineral rights to the bare acres of Oklahoma land
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Movie Review: The Eight Mountains
One-liner: While aloof and overlong, this haunting and spirited adventure drama soars on majestic visuals, earnest performances and powerful themes.
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Movie Review: Hans Steek die Rubicon Oor
One-liner: While lightweight and thinly scripted, this plucky, quirky, stellar and visually-captivating comedy adaptation remains entertaining, fun and upbeat. Hans
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