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Fedor Tot
Screen Slate
Aug 26, 2026
Cine-Guerrilas is the simpler of the two films and it is more coherent.
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Ciné-Guerrillas: Scenes from the Labudović Reels
(2023)
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Fedor Tot
Screen Slate
Aug 26, 2026
The movement’s origins represent a major feat of creative imagination and foreign policy, two fields which rarely intersect.
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Non-Aligned: Scenes from the Labudović Reels
(2023)
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Fedor Tot
Vague Visages
Jan 31, 2025
A+
A series of mirror images, many of them contradictory, combine to say something more meaningful than the sum of its parts.
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Juror #2
(2024)
93%
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Fedor Tot
Vague Visages
Mar 2, 2024
Who Do I Belong To is social realist cinema at its stodgiest and most self-serious.
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Who Do I Belong To
(2024)
69%
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Fedor Tot
Vague Visages
Nov 28, 2023
His willingness to play with the conventions of the genre, even with a mega-budget production, is precisely why this biopic is so refreshing, as Napoleon is very much a repudiation and a revolt against history’s “Great Men.”
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Napoleon
(2023)
58%
59%
Fedor Tot
Vague Visages
Nov 7, 2023
Discordant, broken, berserk: Branded to Kill refuses all direct relations with geography in its depiction of a career hitman on the verge of losing control.
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Branded to Kill
(1967)
100%
84%
Fedor Tot
Vague Visages
Nov 7, 2023
Time and Tide seems to gaze both forward and backwards at once, its breaking down of editing structure creating a strange discombobulating effect.
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Time and Tide
(2000)
67%
74%
Fedor Tot
Vague Visages
Nov 7, 2023
Fehér’s setting and use of cinematic space is key to Twilight’s mood.
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Twilight
(1990)
93%
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Fedor Tot
Vague Visages
Nov 7, 2023
Detour plays like a fever dream powered by guilt and dread; an existential noir about an American male lost in the nothingness and vastness of the country.
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Detour
(1945)
98%
78%
Fedor Tot
Vague Visages
Nov 7, 2023
The power of Coach to Vienna today rests in its mythic quality...
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Carriage to Vienna
(1966)
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Fedor Tot
Vague Visages
Nov 7, 2023
By dint of the fact that Rimini showcases such a vast gulf between performance and direction, Seidl’s return to fictional filmmaking is, if nothing else, hugely interesting.
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Rimini
(2022)
100%
63%
Fedor Tot
Vague Visages
Nov 7, 2023
More moralistic viewers might question if The Last Ride of the Wolves is in reality glamorizing these men, but I think Di Michele is a couple of steps ahead, both embracing that glamorization and distancing the audience from it.
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The Last Ride of the Wolves
(2022)
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Fedor Tot
Vague Visages
Nov 7, 2023
The constant juxtaposition between the sheer joy of an impromptu summer romance and the reality of the surrounding world is The Story of a Three-Day Pass’ enduring legacy.
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The Story of a Three-Day Pass
(1967)
100%
91%
Fedor Tot
Vague Visages
Nov 7, 2023
Vader presents a nuanced and complex picture of fatherhood, as shaped by both individual personalities and wider social events.
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#Vader Jacob
(2020)
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Fedor Tot
Vague Visages
Nov 7, 2023
Underground remains a controversial and wildly ambitious film, one that refuses to be pinned down. It's a never-ending hall of mirrors that reveals more about the audience than the narrative itself.
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Underground
(1995)
86%
96%
Fedor Tot
Vague Visages
Oct 27, 2023
The rhythms in Music — the shift from one image to the next — make sense in ways that defy obvious explanation, much like the film itself.
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Music
(2023)
83%
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Fedor Tot
Vague Visages
Oct 18, 2023
The New Boy is a film of deep, mystical qualities, and I can’t wait to revisit it.
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The New Boy
(2023)
77%
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Fedor Tot
Vague Visages
Oct 18, 2023
Stolevski’s work has air and breath to it, like someone in love with the energy of simply creating.
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Housekeeping for Beginners
(2023)
94%
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Fedor Tot
WeLoveCinema
Sep 20, 2023
4/5
Invigorating insights into a nation at a crossroads
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My Imaginary Country
(2022)
94%
89%
Fedor Tot
WeLoveCinema
Sep 20, 2023
4/5
John Waters’ musical finds just the right balance of kitsch and sincerity.
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Hairspray
(1988)
98%
80%
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