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Vadim Rizov Reverse Shot Jul 21, 2026 The text can take reinterpretation, but the effect doesn’t seem to land. Go to Full Review The Odyssey (2026) 94% - -

Adam Nayman Reverse Shot Dec 30, 2025 Whatever else one can say about No Other Choice, it is a formidable and frequently gobsmacking exercise in craft. Go to Full Review No Other Choice (2025) 97% - -

Chris Cassingham Reverse Shot Jul 12, 2025 The result is less a collective narrative of the ongoing war than a collage of impressions and feelings that guide the viewer across geographical terrain and reveal a country’s citizens processing their trauma in wildly different ways. Go to Full Review Songs of Slow Burning Earth (2024) - - - -

Savina Petkova Reverse Shot Mar 19, 2025 But there is more to those deferrals, stand-ins, and metaphors for paternal absence—there is rawness and optimism in the way Windless paints a double portrait: of a son’s past disappointments and of the man he hopes to be. Go to Full Review Windless (2024) - - - -

Bedatri D. Choudhury Reverse Shot Mar 11, 2025 On Becoming a Guinea Fowl is a complex film whose layers are so dense that they’d be impenetrable if not for Nyoni’s knack for dark humor, fantastic imagery, and her seething rage at a patriarchy that has co-opted women to be its foot soldiers. Go to Full Review On Becoming a Guinea Fowl (2024) 100% - -

Jourdain Searles Reverse Shot Dec 13, 2024 Oh, Canada, adapted from the novel Foregone by the late Russell Banks, is engrossing and confounding, telling a story that defies simple elucidation. Go to Full Review Oh Canada (2024) 66% - -

Adam Nayman Reverse Shot Nov 21, 2024 Here, adapted by Zemeckis with Eric Roth from Richard McGuire’s acclaimed 2014 graphic novel, is as flavorless and fungible as a freshly packaged loaf of Wonder Bread. Go to Full Review Here (2024) 35% - -

Matthew Eng Reverse Shot Oct 21, 2024 Through the vitality of Jean-Baptiste’s playing, Pansy’s wrath comes to function as a kind of wayward defiance, a fire-in-the-belly refusal to abide by society’s norms and niceties... Go to Full Review Hard Truths (2024) 95% - -

Jourdain Searles Reverse Shot Sep 22, 2024 Moore is the only element in this film of any substance at all. Go to Full Review The Substance (2024) 89% - -

Juan Barquin Reverse Shot Aug 13, 2024 Trap repeats itself over and over, introducing new obstacles for Cooper and allowing him to wriggle out of them. It’s a formula that is riveting for the grand majority of the film. Go to Full Review Trap (2024) 57% - -

Matthew Eng Reverse Shot Aug 13, 2024 Donaldson might have dwelled longer in her protagonist’s destabilizing uncertainty before delivering her film to its lightly vengeful conclusion, but the force of its final beat is undeniable. Go to Full Review Good One (2024) 98% - -

Jourdain Searles Reverse Shot Jun 30, 2024 Much like The Lobster and The Killing of a Sacred Deer, Kinds of Kindness frequently registers as a satire of society and the roles we’re each assigned to play. Go to Full Review Kinds of Kindness (2024) 71% - -

Juan Barquin Reverse Shot Apr 5, 2024 In Hedwig, transition is less about gender and more about how these myriad identities are all part of a whole. Go to Full Review Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001) 93% 93%

Adam Nayman Reverse Shot Mar 29, 2024 Just as The Wonders and Happy as Lazzaro indulged in pastoral beauty in order to contextualize its fragility in the face of progress, La Chimera regards its molten seaside environs with a mix of reverence and melancholy. Go to Full Review La Chimera (2023) 95% - -

Adam Nayman Reverse Shot Mar 21, 2024 In the parlance of our times: if Larry Fessenden has no more fans, then I am no longer on this Earth. Go to Full Review Blackout (2023) 75% - -

Caitlin Quinlan Reverse Shot Mar 18, 2024 Because Valadez and Rondero have so masterfully sustained tension and dread for the majority of the film’s runtime, this chapter of Sujo’s life in the capital never feels entirely free of threat. Go to Full Review Sujo (2024) 93% - -

Leonardo Goi Reverse Shot Feb 13, 2024 To peg [the director's] work as that of a miniaturist only lays bare the limited language we use to describe a film [...] Devos’s cinema is expansive, and that’s especially true in Here, possibly his biggest and most ambitious to date. Go to Full Review Here (2023) 95% - -

Jourdain Searles Reverse Shot Feb 5, 2024 There are no simple answers to these questions, and Savoca forces us to sit with our unease. Go to Full Review Household Saints (1993) 72% - -

Matthew Eng Reverse Shot Jan 26, 2024 It is this balance of pragmatism and fellow feeling that emblematizes the bonds between Avilés’s characters and makes her film such a graceful, luminous, and malleable portrait of love’s work amid mortal descent. Go to Full Review Tótem (2023) 97% - -

Kambole Campbell Reverse Shot Dec 13, 2023 It's one of [Miyazaki's] strangest and most ambitious films. It’s reassuring that the filmmaker can still surprise like this. Go to Full Review The Boy and the Heron (2023) 96% 33%