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  • A Different Man (2024)
    Review preview for A Different Man

    Slippery in terms of genre and form, the writer/director’s satire puts all his characters and, by extension, us under close scrutiny.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
    Aspiring actor Edward undergoes a radical medical trial to drastically transform his appearance. But his new dream face quickly turns into a nightmare.
  • Hair Wolf (2018)
    Review preview for Hair Wolf

    Something truly delightful.

    Andrew Robertson · 4.5 out of 5
    In a black hair salon in gentrifying Brooklyn, the local residents fend off a strange new monster: white women intent on sucking the lifeblood from black culture.
  • Josephine (2026)
    Review preview for Josephine

    De Araújo is particularly good at evoking the emotional turmoil Jo feels.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4.5 out of 5
    After 8-year-old Josephine accidentally witnesses a crime in Golden Gate Park, she acts out in search of a way to regain control of her safety while adults are helpless to console her.
  • Little Doors (2026)
    Review preview for Little Doors

    Answers are as thin on the ground as they are beside the point.

    Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
    Two socially awkward people find love and then define it for themselves in a barren, post-apocalyptic world before they discover a small, wooden door in the side of her body and decide whether or not to open it.
  • Soft & Quiet (2022)
    Review preview for Soft & Quiet

    The easy flow of de Araújo’s film and the intensity of its characters makes it easy to miss just what an impressive achievement it is at a technical level.

    Jennie Kermode · 5 out of 5
    An afternoon in the life of Emily, a female white supremacist and elementary school teacher.
  • The Unspeakable Act (2012)
    Review preview for The Unspeakable Act

    Sallitt brings an unusually stringent intellectual level to proceedings that marks his film out from the largely immature field of its peers.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3.5 out of 5
    Adolescent anxiety inspires a "love that dare not speak its name" in Dan Sallitt's frank and patient family drama.

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