Reviews by Edin Custo

Order by: Date, A–Z

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  The River Train (2026)

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  The River Train lets language do what plot will not always do, it gives a child’s abstract longings a body.

  Nine-year-old Milo lives in a remote Argentinian village where he studies the Malambo, a folk dance full of bravura. He is an excellent dancer, but Milo’s only desire is to escape the countryside on a train for the Buenos Aires of his dreams.
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  Sentient (2026)

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  It doesn’t posture about whether primates are sentient. It treats that as the baseline fact, then asks what kind of civilisation keeps behaving as if it isn’t?

  An investigation into laboratory research on animals exposes a hidden world in which it’s not just the animals getting hurt. The story of Dr. Lisa Jones Engel, a primatologist turned animal welfare advocate, asks whether harming animals and ourselves in science’s name is justified.
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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.
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  To Hold A Mountain (2026)

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  Filmed over seven seasons, the co-directors make time tactile.

  In the remote highlands of Montenegro, a shepherd mother and daughter proudly defend their ancestral mountain from the threat of becoming a NATO military training ground, stirring memories of the violence that shattered their family.
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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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  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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  We Are Aliens (2026)

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  Small movements – the awkwardness of a child shrinking into himself, the hesitation before speaking, the forced confidence of fitting in – gain an almost painful realism.

  The story follows Tsubasa, a quiet boy, and Akitarō, a child prodigy. Jealousy and misunderstanding sever their childhood bond. Years later, as their lives take different directions, each must make a decision when the weight of the past resurfaces.
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  We Are Stardust (2026)

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  Rasmussen understands that what makes this quest cinematic is not merely its oddity, but its scale.

  Story of a hobby scientist who believed it was possible to find stardust in unlikely places on Earth.
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  What Will I Become? (2026)

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  It does not explain trans pain from the outside. It sits with it, listens to it, and tries to make room for it without exploiting it.

  Kyler Prescott and Blake Brockington were just two high-profile examples of approximately 50% of trans boys in the US who did not survive a suicide attempt. This film highlights the importance of combating prejudice and prioritising prevention among trans youth.
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  Where To? (2026)

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  Where To? keeps mistaking centrist posture for moral courage.

  A middle-aged Palestinian Uber driver forms a bond with a young Israeli who becomes a regular passenger.
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  Why Do I See You In Everything? (2026)

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  The ethic is visible here. It is wary, careful, never neutral, and when violence becomes overwhelming it turns toward time, toward breathing, toward gestures of care rather than spectacle.

  Two friends drift through dreams and memories, searching for tenderness amid unending cycles of violence.
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  Yellow Cake (2026)

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  Yellow Cake’s clunkiest habit, exposition as explanation rather than drama.

  When radical science backfires, miners and researchers confront apocalypse.
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  Yellow Letters (2026)

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  What the narrative wants to test is the cost of principled resistance when you have a child to protect

  Life is good for Derya and Aziz, a celebrated artist couple from Turkey, until an incident at their play’s premiere. Suddenly targeted by the state and struggling to balance their ideals with life’s necessities, their marriage is pushed to a breaking point.