Manuela Lazic

Manuela Lazic Cinema Scope Feb 18, 2025 One is left with the impression that old wounds have been reopened for the spectators’ morbid curiosity at the detriment of the women concerned. Go to Full Review Holloway (2024) - - - -

Manuela Lazic Cinema Scope Feb 18, 2025 While the ideas it raises are worth exploring, Ink Wash is ultimately less than the sum of its parts. Go to Full Review Ink Wash (2024) - - - -

Manuela Lazic Cineuropa Feb 18, 2025 Humorous touches help alleviate a bleak picture of continued, if evolving, exploitation between nations, yet they also make Traffic more true to life. Go to Full Review Traffic (2024) - - - -

Manuela Lazic Cineuropa Feb 18, 2025 Schuster struggles to bring together the various strands of his story. Go to Full Review Chaos and Silence (2024) - - - -

Manuela Lazic Little White Lies Jan 24, 2025 4/5 Although its finale is a little awkward, Presence is refreshingly light on its feet even as it dives into the muddy waters of family relations and the afterlife. Go to Full Review Presence (2024) 87% - -

Manuela Lazic Cineuropa Jan 10, 2025 Refreshingly, King and Kingori oscillate between a straightforward presentation of hard data and historical facts, and more personal, philosophical and psychological questions regarding these workers and the consequences of this industry. Go to Full Review The Shadow Scholars (2024) - - - -

Manuela Lazic Cineuropa Nov 22, 2024 Freud’s stubbornness at times feels clichéd, and the script’s meandering structure doesn’t benefit either of the two leads. Go to Full Review Freud's Last Session (2023) 43% 47%

Manuela Lazic Cineuropa Nov 22, 2024 Gilbert doesn’t fully exploit the moral and emotional quandary that John and Mary are put in, as if the filmmaker were too nervous to get her hands dirty and have her characters be truly torn apart by this impossible situation. Go to Full Review Reawakening (2024) 82% - -

Manuela Lazic Cineuropa Nov 22, 2024 If the film's focus on the particular kind of oppression that queer South Asian people suffer is sadly too rare in cinema, its narrative progression is conventional and unadventurous... with more emphasis on the romance than the comedy. Go to Full Review Unicorns (2023) 78% - -

Manuela Lazic Cineuropa Nov 22, 2024 Bring Them Down however remains a promising debut feature, especially for its playfully constructed script that turns the thriller genre inside-out to place real human feeling at its centre. Go to Full Review Bring Them Down (2024) 90% - -

Manuela Lazic WeLoveCinema Jun 13, 2024 4/5 What Creton proposes is a more considered style, reminiscent of photography but which, somewhat paradoxically, brings out the aliveness of the characters he films and the landscapes they occupy. Go to Full Review A Prince (2023) 70% - -

Manuela Lazic WeLoveCinema Jun 13, 2024 4/5 The Book of Solutions is better enjoyed for its unbridled inventiveness than its commentary on filmmaking at large, as well as for Gondry's idiosyncrasies, back in full force. Go to Full Review The Book of Solutions (2023) 79% - -

Manuela Lazic WeLoveCinema Jun 13, 2024 5/5 Pictures of Ghosts is the best of what cinema can offer – at once grounded in lived experience and whimsical in just the right doses, with a final flight of fancy that makes reality, once again, beautifully cinematic. Go to Full Review Pictures of Ghosts (2023) 100% - -

Manuela Lazic WeLoveCinema Jun 13, 2024 4/5 Garrel walks a fine line between the tragic thriller and the hopeful family comedy, bridging the two with a dry, typically French sense of humour. Go to Full Review The Innocent (2022) 98% 86%

Manuela Lazic Bright Wall/Dark Room Jun 13, 2024 According to Ozon, obsession tends to go hand in hand with delusion—which is why it lends itself so well to cinema. Go to Full Review In the House (2012) 88% 84%

Manuela Lazic Cineuropa Jun 13, 2024 Convenient narrative turns deflate the film of its energy and make it predictable, yet it remains satisfying to see genre filmmaking repurposed to tell such a heartfelt, queer and happy story. Go to Full Review Queens of Drama (2024) 86% - -

Manuela Lazic The Ringer May 30, 2024 Considering how far and with how much conviction Costner has pushed it here, it seems unlikely that the cheesy style of this opus will be abandoned for something that’s more grounded and that spends less time glorifying both its star and ideas... Go to Full Review Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 1 (2024) 51% - -

Manuela Lazic The Ringer May 21, 2024 The film Hollywood doesn’t want you to see tries to cohere into something genuinely transcendent, but ultimately amounts to a banal vanity project. Go to Full Review Megalopolis (2024) 46% - -

Manuela Lazic The Ringer Apr 27, 2024 Hit Man perfectly demonstrates that the endless protest of the death of the movie star should instead be a rallying cry for the traditional theatrical release. Go to Full Review Hit Man (2023) 95% - -

Manuela Lazic The Ringer Jan 4, 2024 Maestro is a labor of love, and as its director and lead, Cooper has poured himself into it—but at some point all of the effort becomes noticeable, and all of Leonard Bernstein’s magic becomes lost. Go to Full Review Maestro (2023) 78% 63%