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  • Beautiful Boy (2018)
    Review preview for Beautiful Boy

    The performances are a tribute to a screenplay that avoids the worst indulgences of the urban jungle.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3.5 out of 5
    A father tries to help his son break his cycle of drug addiction.
  • Belgica (2016)
    Review preview for Belgica

    Groeningen completely sells us the world of the bar, his immersive tracking and handheld camera leading us into the melee where coke and hedonism are served straight up and the music pounds to be let into your bloodstream.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3.5 out of 5
    Two brothers find their hedonistic bar business heading for trouble.
  • The Eight Mountains (2022)
    Review preview for The Eight Mountains

    In their quietly devastating manner, Groeningen and Vandermeersch examine the fluid nature of our confusion and confidence over our place in the world.

    Jeremy Mathews · 5 out of 5
    The Eight Mountains is the story of a friendship. Of children becoming men who try to erase the footprints of their fathers, but who, through the twists and turns they take, always end up returning home.

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