Reviews by Edin Custo

Order by: Date, A–Z

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  Late Shift (2025)

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  One of the most telling details is how human warmth becomes a luxury item.

  Drama following a nurse on a late shift at a busy hospital.
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  All That's Left Of You (2025)

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  Dabis controls revelation with discipline, letting meaning accumulate rather than announcing itself, so that what finally emerges feels earned rather than engineered.

  After a Palestinian teen confronts Israeli soldiers at a West Bank protest, his mother recounts the series of events that led him to that fateful moment, starting with his grandfather’s forced displacement.
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  Homebound (2025)

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  Too much of the social grammar remains out of reach unless viewers are willing to research afterwards, and a drama this grounded in real structures shouldn’t require homework to fully land.

  Two childhood friends from a small North Indian village chase a police job that promises them the dignity they’ve long been denied. But as they inch closer to their dream, mounting desperation threatens the bond that holds them together.
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  Left-Handed Girl (2025)

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  The title stops being metaphor and becomes a wound you can watch forming in real time.

  A single mother and her two daughters return to Taipei to open a night market stand. Three generations of family secrets begin to unravel after the youngest daughter who’s left-handed is told by her traditional grandfather to never use her "devil hand”.
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  No Other Choice (2025)

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  Park keeps inviting us to laugh, then forcing us to confront what, exactly, we’re laughing at.

  When a man loses his job he finds himself drifting before deciding to take things into his own hands...
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  Hamnet (2025)

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  The adaptation feels oddly timid and selective.

  William and Agnes Shakespeare struggle to come to terms with the loss of their son.
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  The Dashed Lines (2025)

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  Modest in scale but rich in mood.

  Bea is a 50-year-old woman going through a divorce, and Denís is a 28-year-old trans man struggling with job insecurity. An unexpected incident brings them together, and this encounter will change their lives forever.
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  Versalles (2025)

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  Clariond is less interested in political intrigue than in what happens when a wounded ego with power is left alone with his own myth.

  A fallen politician and his wife reinvent themselves as monarchs, taking inspiration from Louis XIV, the Sun King.
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  La Carn (2025)

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  The genre elements never quite lock into a clean payoff, but the refusal to resolve things neatly leaves the viewer in a similarly unstable, hyper-vigilant state.

  Lluís Garau, a young dancer, has created a performance inspired by Chatroulette, a platform that connects strangers at random via video call. In his restless search for connection and meaning, he becomes entangled in a series of increasingly unsettling encounters.
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  Edge Of The Night (2025)

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  Loginov lets the city drift in and out of focus until dusk and dawn blur, and night stops feeling like a time of day and becomes a state of mind.

  As the sun sets, director Vladimir Loginov takes audiences to a Tallinn far from the postcard-perfect spires of the medieval Old Town. Venturing into its hidden underbelly, he reveals complex realities and vibrant subcultures.
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  Patty Is Such A Girly Name (2025)

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  The ambition is admirable; the execution uneven.

  Coming-of-age drama sees a teenage judo athlete try to pursue her dreams.
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  A Useful Ghost (2025)

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  The comic relief goes a long way to diffuse the intensity of the emotional gravity.

  March is mourning his wife Nat who has recently passed away due to dust pollution. He discovers her spirit has returned by possessing the vacuum cleaner. But to become a useful ghost, she first needs to get rid of the useless ones.
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  Solomamma (2025)

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  A predictable trajectory to an inevitable end.

  When a single mother discovers the identity of her sperm donor, her pursuit of truth blurs the boundaries between love, ethics, and self-deception.