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David Katz

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Sometimes I Think About Dying (2023) 82% EDIT “Sometimes I Think About Dying is arguably slight, and never beckons too many difficult questions of its subject matter, yet it deftly handles something sensitive, and true: a hard-won argument for living. ” – Sight & Sound Dec 31, 2025 Full Review Youth (Hard Times) (2024) 94% EDIT “Hard Times doesn’t stand on its own as successfully as its more self-contained predecessor, but is an essential part of a triptych that establishes Wang as China’s foremost cine-sociologist.” – Sight & Sound Dec 19, 2025 Full Review Dreams (2024) 90% EDIT “Dreams (Sex Love) is an invitation to spend time with and think alongside Haugerud’s liberated characters, and it’s a welcome one, however artificial and unlikely his framing can sometimes feel. ” – Sight & Sound Nov 5, 2025 Full Review One Battle After Another (2025) 94% EDIT “[PTA has] made a largely thrilling populist action movie with some of his most spectacular cinematic formalism, and disciplined, linear storytelling, but lacking the dark beauty and profundity of his best work. ” – The Film Stage Sep 19, 2025 Full Review Megadoc (2025) 98% EDIT “Watching MEGADOC, we wonder what Figgis wasn’t legally permitted to show, yet his project is key to understanding what Megalopolis is and what hamstrung it, and maybe, also, that greatness wasn’t its destiny. ” – The Film Stage Aug 28, 2025 Full Review Fuori (2025) 57% B EDIT “Politics, autofiction, progressive rock, jail -- that’s the “Fuori” mindset.” – IndieWire May 21, 2025 Full Review The Love That Remains (2025) 94% B- EDIT “[Hlynur Pálmason] braids various fragments to relate a time-honored story of love lost, yet the immaculacy of the construction doesn’t help us feel it as viscerally as he’d like. Here, still waters run a bit shallow. ” – IndieWire May 19, 2025 Full Review Sirāt (2025) 93% A- EDIT “It’s the kind of film that Cannes attendees from far and wide come to the festival for: sui generis and evading any classification, emanating from a wholly personal vision of cinema while not resisting galvanizing, and sometimes crowd-pleasing, pleasures.” – IndieWire May 16, 2025 Full Review Two Prosecutors (2025) 95% B+ EDIT “Ultimately, “Two Prosecutors”’ is like a perfect 50-50 cocktail of dread and dialogue, the vodka being whichever you’d choose, making the inevitable feel capable of deferment, before it strikes more devastatingly than you’d even think.” – IndieWire May 16, 2025 Full Review Reflection in a Dead Diamond (2025) 84% B EDIT “It often looks beautiful, yet that beauty also has an ostentatious quality. Ultimately, it’s a case in point for how an impeccably styled arthouse-grindhouse crossover can feel both dense with signifiers to unpack, but also fleet, frothy and fun.” – IndieWire Mar 17, 2025 Full Review Idiotka (2025) 83% C+ EDIT “Popov is meditating on relevant themes, but what she diagnoses about the superficiality of the self-serving media and fashion worlds is already received wisdom, rather than the lethal satire she’s aiming for.” – IndieWire Mar 12, 2025 Full Review You Burn Me (2024) EDIT “You Burn Me cements Piñeiro as having one of the most far-reaching imaginations in current experimental film, beckoning us to follow even if he’s many intellectual steps ahead.” – The Film Stage Mar 7, 2025 Full Review Blue Moon (2025) 91% EDIT “Blue Moon is another beautifully personal work from Linklater, full of authorial idiosyncrasies and tics, but distinguishing the film from his corpus is it being the kind you can only make at a mature career stage.” – The Film Stage Feb 20, 2025 Full Review Paul (2025) B+ EDIT “It’s all just so wonderfully Québécois and alt-Montréal: the empowerment of letting your freak flag fly at full mast.” – IndieWire Feb 19, 2025 Full Review The Ballad of Suzanne Césaire (2024) 87% B EDIT “The Ballad of Suzanne Césaire aims to foreground its primary literary material and historical context, but instead directs more attention to its oneiric touches and environmental phenomena––the “wind in the trees,” so to speak.” – The Film Stage Oct 9, 2024 Full Review Afternoons of Solitude (2024) 88% B+ EDIT “We’re very sensitized to the constructed and artificial nature of documentary now, but Serra’s prime achievement here is to achieve an objectivity of perspective. ” – The Film Stage Oct 2, 2024 Full Review Pavements (2024) 95% A- EDIT “Perry’s film, one of his most accomplished and complete-feeling to date, exists in both a past and conditional tense. It gives a brilliant précis of one of indie music’s most influential artists.” – The Film Stage Sep 4, 2024 Full Review The Seed of the Sacred Fig (2024) 97% B+ EDIT “The mere impact is palpable: that his movie stumbles from lucidity into ugly chaos and spontaneous fight-or-flight behaviors is right. ” – The Film Stage Aug 27, 2024 Full Review By the Stream (2024) 100% B+ EDIT “By the Stream is a bit of a comfortable cradle for bad men, for difficult men, who’ve faced opprobrium in the court of public opinion, but of course there’s nothing didactic about this.” – The Film Stage Aug 21, 2024 Full Review To a Land Unknown (2024) 98% B+ EDIT “With inspiration taken from the somber wave of ’70s American buddy movies, To a Land Unknown will comfortably endear itself to audiences, avoiding anything overly discursive so it can thrive provoking anger and pathos.” – The Film Stage May 22, 2024 Full Review The Crime Is Mine (2023) 98% B- EDIT “There’s a self-satisfied tidiness to the script’s trajectory, although some darkly funny lines provide compensation.” – The Film Stage Dec 23, 2023 Full Review Memory (2023) 85% B+ EDIT “Chastain and Sarsgaard are just fantastic, and find an ideal emotional register for Franco’s dramatic somersaults.” – The Film Stage Sep 15, 2023 Full Review The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial (2023) 95% B+ EDIT “The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial is an action film with words, its cutting and command of space as sharp and rhythmic as the continuity edits splicing wides and close-ups in his car chases.” – The Film Stage Sep 12, 2023 Full Review Coup de Chance (2023) 84% B EDIT “Rather pleasurable in and of itself: a parlor game for long-suffering Woodyheads to tick off the typical tics and reflexes while marveling at how consistent and industrious his story-construction skills (if not other literary faculties) remain. ” – The Film Stage Sep 8, 2023 Full Review The Beast (2023) 86% A- EDIT “For what a discomforting and despairing experience much of The Beast is, when I’ve thought back to it, its moments of real, uncomplicated cinematic pleasure, its verve and sense of joyousness, are what mark my memories. ” – The Film Stage Sep 5, 2023 Full Review
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