Deborah Young

Deborah Young The Film Verdict Jun 21, 2024 By showing this as a process of growth, albeit one fraught with emotional obstacles, Urresolo Sologuren adds something new to the discourse, while young Otero’s entrancing debut holds the attention even without major dramatic quakes. Go to Full Review 20,000 Species of Bees (2023) 93% - -

Deborah Young The Hollywood Reporter Jan 12, 2023 As breathless as the narrative is, Farooki's direction has an easy confidence that, amid all the camera pyrotechnics, keeps the drama in focus. Go to Full Review Shonibar Bikel (Saturday Afternoon) (2019) 80% 60%

Deborah Young The Film Verdict May 25, 2022 Shot with feeling for its subject and without the hard theatrical-intellectual veneer that keeps audiences at arm’s length from many of Mario Martone’s films, it ranks as one of the prolific director’s most accessible works. Go to Full Review Nostalgia (2022) 89% 73%

Deborah Young The Film Verdict May 20, 2022 Mathieu Vadepied’s affecting portrait of paternal love hinges on intensely involving performances by Omar Sy and Alassane Diong. Go to Full Review Father & Soldier (2022) 75% - -

Deborah Young The Film Verdict May 20, 2022 This small-scale, closely observed story is one of Gray’s very best. Go to Full Review Armageddon Time (2022) 76% 48%

Deborah Young The Film Verdict Jan 19, 2022 Hamaguchi's long, measured, ultimately mesmerizing examination of the human soul. Go to Full Review Drive My Car (2021) 97% 78%

Deborah Young The Film Verdict Nov 14, 2021 Ghobadi also sounds a full register of genre keys, from the blackest tragedy and furious drama to paradoxical humor, but with more ambition than conviction. One is left wondering how to react to Boran's drama. Go to Full Review The Four Walls (2021) - - - -

Deborah Young The Film Verdict Oct 29, 2021 Costa Rica dancer Wendy Chinchilla Araya gives an eerie, riveting perf but it only goes so far in this unstructured tale of magic realism and female power from debuting director Nathalie Alvarez Mesen. Go to Full Review Clara Sola (2021) 91% 86%

Deborah Young The Film Verdict Oct 29, 2021 An engrossingly offbeat rail movie (...) Fully modulated yet natural performances by the two leads, Seidi Haarla and Yuriy Borisov, walk us through the human condition with the nuances of a big Russian novel. Go to Full Review Compartment No. 6 (2021) 93% 82%

Deborah Young The Film Verdict Oct 29, 2021 An apocalyptic vision of Delhi's life-threatening pollution that floods the screen with present-day disasters. Go to Full Review Invisible Demons (2021) 100% 50%

Deborah Young The Film Verdict Oct 25, 2021 Documaker Renato Borrayo Serrano offers eye-opening glimpses into the harrowing and chaotic life of a modern Nenets woman that overturn stereotypes about Arctic life. Go to Full Review Life of Ivanna (2022) - - - -

Deborah Young The Film Verdict Oct 25, 2021 Extols female rebellion but walks a dangerous tightrope connecting the male gaze with the body of a rebellious 17-year-old girl. Go to Full Review Murina (2021) 91% 68%

Deborah Young The Film Verdict Oct 15, 2021 Zhang Yimou ironically salutes the movies and their fervent audiences during China's Cultural Revolution, in a stylistic pastiche that drags a little. Go to Full Review One Second (2020) 100% 89%

Deborah Young The Film Verdict Oct 15, 2021 Tatiana Huezo makes her dazzling feature fiction debut with the unforgettable Prayers for the Stolen. Go to Full Review Prayers for the Stolen (2021) 96% 90%

Deborah Young The Film Verdict Oct 15, 2021 The thing is, they don't really know why they're so bad or what they're after - and the film offers precious few clues. (...) Many viewers of this Venice Horizons films will wonder what the point is. Go to Full Review Rhino: Ukrainian Godfather (2021) 82% - -

Deborah Young The Film Verdict Oct 15, 2021 Tarantino explains his love for Sergio Corbucci's Spaghetti Westerns and reveals a lot about his own work in the process in Luca Rea's irresistible, eye-opening documentary. Go to Full Review Django & Django (2021) 75% 60%

Deborah Young The Film Verdict Oct 15, 2021 If the narrative thread is frustrating, Elio Germano (he played one of the off-the-wall parents in Favolacce) keeps you guessing. Go to Full Review America Latina (2021) 29% - -

Deborah Young The Film Verdict Oct 15, 2021 Icair Bollain chillingly dramatizes the real-life encounter between a strong-minded widow and the repentant Basque terrorists who murdered her husband. Go to Full Review Maixabel (2021) 100% 73%

Deborah Young The Film Verdict Oct 15, 2021 An ambitious sci-fi mystery and teenage adventure yarn set in the near future in Buddhist Cambodia. Go to Full Review Karmalink (2021) 89% 80%

Deborah Young The Film Verdict Oct 15, 2021 A grotesque comedy set in the 1930s that gives full vent to the Russian lust for metaphor, mysticism and visual expressionism. (...) A coherent stylistic choice that pays off handsomely in the final moments. Go to Full Review Captain Volkonogov Escaped (2021) 100% 100%