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Siddhant Adlakha Truthdig Jun 5, 2026 With voiceovers that balance lyrical imagery with bone-dry wit, "Time and Water" threads a delicate needle between cultural and lithologic memory. Go to Full Review Time and Water (2026) 91% - -

Siddhant Adlakha Truthdig Mar 31, 2026 Through droll, static direction and political caricature, Jude constructs a typically acerbic social satire and his most character-focused work to date. Go to Full Review Kontinental '25 (2025) 92% - -

Siddhant Adlakha Truthdig Jan 30, 2026 There’s an intentionally unvarnished quality to "A Poet," Simón Mesa Soto’s zany, occasionally slapstick comedy-drama about a waning artiste and the student he mentors. Go to Full Review A Poet (2025) 100% - -

Siddhant Adlakha Truthdig Jan 9, 2026 Sheds its didacticism to become a harrowing multigenerational tale of a Palestinian family’s nakbas. Go to Full Review All That's Left of You (2025) 100% - -

Siddhant Adlakha Truthdig Dec 18, 2025 At turns reverential and critical. Go to Full Review Cover-Up (2025) 98% - -

Siddhant Adlakha Truthdig Nov 16, 2025 Few films this year have felt so consistently foreboding. Go to Full Review Sirāt (2025) 90% - -

Siddhant Adlakha Truthdig Oct 16, 2025 Olsson has produced one of the most complete cinematic documents about a political conflict in recent memory. Go to Full Review Israel Palestine on Swedish TV 1958-1989 (2024) 91% - -

Siddhant Adlakha Truthdig Sep 19, 2025 A collision of intimacy and bombast, Anderson’s “One Battle After Another” is the rare American studio film that captures the revolutionary spirit, balancing energizing tableaus of rebellion with sobering realities about who and what is at stake. Go to Full Review One Battle After Another (2025) 94% - -

Siddhant Adlakha Truthdig Sep 10, 2025 A coming-of-age story that feels like something genuinely new in nouveau queer cinema. Go to Full Review Dreams (2024) 91% - -

Siddhant Adlakha Truthdig Sep 3, 2025 In the Quays’ lucid cinematic dream world, nightmares are populated by dead-eyed dolls placed at the brink of their own demise, forced to confront the human condition, in all its mystery and horrific beauty. Go to Full Review Sanatorium under the Sign of the Hourglass (2024) 82% - -

Siddhant Adlakha Truthdig Aug 20, 2025 A corrective to the [western's] mythmaking, told in naturalistic hues that blur the boundaries of drama and documentary Go to Full Review East of Wall (2025) 95% - -

Siddhant Adlakha Truthdig Aug 8, 2025 Subverts the confessional nature of [Hong's] recent work. The narrative — a straightforward tale of university students putting on a stage play — smuggles an inside-out analysis of Hong and Kim’s public controversy in the form of dramatic introspection Go to Full Review By the Stream (2024) 100% - -

Siddhant Adlakha Truthdig Jul 17, 2025 Tackles the politics of Brazilian evangelicalism with tools redolent of a true crime story. But for all of its forensic analysis, it falls dispiritingly short of a hard-boiled exposé, failing to interrogate its underlying mechanics and visceral allure. Go to Full Review Apocalypse in the Tropics (2024) 91% - -

Siddhant Adlakha Truthdig Jul 9, 2025 A wryly conceived tale of masculinity in crisis Go to Full Review Sex (2024) 85% - -

Siddhant Adlakha Truthdig Jul 9, 2025 The movie’s conversational nature makes for a deceptively comforting watch, aided by Haugerud and cinematographer Cecilie Semec casual visual approach, in which dialogue dictates the movie’s rhythm. Go to Full Review Love (2024) 96% - -

Siddhant Adlakha Truthdig Jul 8, 2025 The filmmakers use techniques normally meant to transition between scenes, but they hold on these shots instead of cutting away, turning them into a central focus. Go to Full Review Emergent City (2024) 100% - -

Siddhant Adlakha Truthdig Jun 26, 2025 Tackles uncomfortable material with self-effacing humor, confident wit and a compassionate cinematic eye for how the body keeps the score. Go to Full Review Sorry, Baby (2025) 97% - -

Siddhant Adlakha Truthdig May 28, 2025 Captures the difficult process of looking for places to direct one’s anger as it festers — even when it might seem futile. Ultimately, it paints this sense of defeat as a necessary aspect of living under authoritarianism, and eventually, outliving it. Go to Full Review It Was Just an Accident (2025) 98% - -

Siddhant Adlakha Truthdig Apr 25, 2025 In streamlining the novel’s structure, Hur ends up taking a considerable amount of time to illuminate its central drama Go to Full Review A Normal Family (2023) 89% - -

Siddhant Adlakha Truthdig Mar 6, 2025 Picture a version of the esoteric sci-fi masterpiece “2001: A Space Odyssey” made after a cartoon anvil has landed on Stanley Kubrick’s head, causing animated canaries to circle overhead. The resulting film would probably look a lot like “L’Empire.” Go to Full Review The Empire (2024) 58% - -