Marcelo Martinessi's debut film is a quiet, human portrait of connection in the face of a grand existential crisis in modern-day Paraguay.
Reviews
Joshua Brunsting
Joshua Reviews Franz Osten’s Shiraz: A Romance Of India
This legendary 1928 Indian silent epic is hitting theaters in a gorgeous new restoration thanks to upstart distribution company Juno Films.
Joshua Reviews Astra Taylor’s What Is Democracy [Theatrical Review]
Taylor returns with this deeply compelling essay film about the roots and current state of democratic politics.
Joshua Reviews Mike Wiluan’s Buffalo Boys [Theatrical Review]
Singapore's Best Foreign Language Film entry for the upcoming Oscar ceremony, Mike Wiluan's Buffalo Boys is a mixed bag of stale genre tropes and exciting action.
Joshua Reviews Adam McKay’s Vice [Theatrical Review]
Adam McKay returns with another political satire, this time skewering one of the most controversial figures pf post-2000 politics.
Joshua Reviews Pawel Pawlikowski’s Cold War [Theatrical Review]
Ida director Pawil Pawlikowski returns with a haunting film about doomed love under chaotic times.
Scott Reviews Paweł Pawlikowski’s Cold War [Theatrical Review]
Its slight 85-minute running time gives the further impression of time slipping away, how moments stretch out, only for you to blink and a year’s gone by.
Scott Nye
Joshua Reviews Wang Bing’s Dead Souls [Theatrical Review]
Despite being a nearly nine-hour documentary, Wang Bing returns with maybe 2018's most important and powerful non-fiction feature film.
Joshua Reviews Aleksey German’s Khrustalyov, My Car! [Theatrical Review]
20 years after its initial release, Aleksey German's 1998 masterpiece arrives in theaters in an essential new restoration from Arrow Films.
Joshua Reviews Anahi Berneri’s Alanis [Theatrical Review]
This humanist portrait of a woman on the brink of collapse is one of fall 2018's great discoveries.
Joshua Reviews Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Shoplifters [Theatrical Review]
The Still Walking filmmaker returns with one of his best films yet, a devastating look at what it truly means to be a family.
Joshua Reviews Claude Lanzmann’s Shoah: Four Sisters [Theatrical Review]
Lanzmann's final film is an epic, haunting look at life during the Holocaust.
Joshua Reviews Antonio Mendez Esparza’s Life And Nothing More [Theatrical Review]
Already a winner from March's awards circuit, Life and Nothing More is an Independent Spirit-winning drama that's one of the year's great American discoveries.
Joshua Reviews Margarethe von Trotta’s Searching For Ingmar Bergman [Theatrical Review]
Margarethe von Trotta's new documentary is a handsome, if occasionally thin, look at the work and life of one of cinema's great artists.
Joshua Reviews Melanie Laurent’s Galveston [Theatrical Review]
Actor-turned-filmmaker Melanie Laurent returns with this pulpy noir driven by two ace lead performances.