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  • Magnus (2016)
    Review preview for Magnus

    Ree embraces the music as a collaborator, a voice that can channel the feelings of both the character and the story.

    Paul Risker · 4 out of 5
    Documenting the 'Mozart of Chess'.
  • The Painter And The Thief (2020)
    Review preview for The Painter And The Thief

    Filled with humanism and raw emotion, the film builds as the double portrait that its title suggests, with Ree and his editor Robert Stengård employing a flexible structure that sometimes shifts backwards in time so that our perspective is also being cons

    Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
    An artist befriends the drug addict and thief who stole her paintings and an unusual relationship begins

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