Reviews by Marko Stojiljkovic

Order by: Date, A–Z

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  1001 Frames (2025)

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  A pretty empty and tiresome experience.

  In the studio of a well-known director, female actors audition for the role of Scheherazade in A Thousand and One Nights. But the women gradually realise that the director has more in mind than just casting the leading role.
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  100 Litres Of Gold (2024)

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  In the end, the silliness easily and organically transforms into warmth and a heart-felt experience.

  A home brew plan causes comic complications in the run-up to a wedding.
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  3 Days In September (2026)

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  A dynamic, lean, but refreshingly lightweight viewing experience.

  When her fiancé’s mistress crashes Bianca's wedding day, she flees on a tourist train, launching a real-time odyssey of chaotic escape.
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  Adam's Sake (2025)

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  Drucker, who earlier thrived as a character or supporting actress, once again demonstrates that she has the authority for lead parts.

  Following a court ruling, four-year-old Adam is hospitalised for malnutrition. The head nurse faces a tricky battle to balance the competing interests of child, parent and hospital.
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  Adorable Humans (2025)

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  For an anthology movie, Adorable Humans is pretty consistent both in the terms of style and substance.

  Anthology re-imagining the tales of Hans Christian Andersen.
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  The Baby Snatcher (2023)

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  The characters are underwritten, so the acting would become a hard task even for stronger actors with some sense for improvisation.

  When best friends Penelope and Eve find that they're both expecting children at the same time, it seems their lives couldn't be any more perfect. But when tragedy strikes and Eve begins to unravel, Penelope finds herself caught in a maze of secrets and must fight for her family's safety.
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  The Black Hole (2024)

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  Powered by strong acting performances ... The Black Hole surfs through various genres smoothly.

  As aliens descend to study humans, the people caught up in their investigations face turning points in their own lives. Two women take part-time jobs being dissected by the cosmic visitors; a woman fleeing an abusive relationship takes shelter in a muscle mummy’s giant-spider-ridden apartment; and a young man begins an affair with the domineering, alluring woman across the street while his mother seeks fulfillment in an expensive vacuum cleaner.
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  Cadet (2024)

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  Yerzhanov opens the film strongly, using his trademark dark humour.

  A mother Alina tries to enroll her son, Serik, in an elite military academy, but he is bullied by his classmates.
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  The Crow (2024)

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  It might be a deliberate choice to make a movie for new subculture-free audiences, but the stylish source material deserves at least some effort.

  Remake of the cult film about a man seeking revenge through the realms of the living and the dead.
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  Dead Lover (2025)

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  The expressionist feeling of early 20th century cinema is further enhanced by the specific colour scheme, resembling a very early version of Technicolor, while the sound recalls that of the early sound films.

  A lonely gravedigger who stinks of corpses finally meets her dream man, but their whirlwind affair is cut short when he tragically drowns at sea. Grief-stricken, she goes to morbid lengths to resurrect him through madcap scientific experiments, resulting in grave consequences and unlikely love.
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  Delicious (2025)

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  Manages to squeeze solid performances from actors and to infuse the run of the mill story with some dense and tense atmosphere set against the backdrop of the overall slickness of Frank Griebe’s cinematography

  A family's apparently perfect façade starts to crumble when an accident leads them to hire a maid.
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  DJ Ahmet (2025)

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  The artifice takes over, making the desired authenticity completely fake.

  Ahmet, a 15-year-old boy from a remote Yuruk village in North Macedonia find refuge in music while navigating his father’s expectations, a conservative community, and first love.
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  Don't Trip (2025)

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  Kugelman makes a cardinal mistake in the character development department and with casting choices.

  A struggling writer befriends a powerful producer's eccentric son.
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  Emmanuelle (2024)

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  The problem is that the new Emmanuelle is as completely unsexy, cold and sterile as the environment the titular protagonist inhabits.

  Emmanuelle is in search of a lost pleasure. She flies alone to Hong Kong on a business trip. In this sensual global city, where she initiates numerous encounters, she meets Kei, a man who constantly eludes her.
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  Feels Like Home (2025)

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  Feels Like Home avoids the usual traps of a thriller-chamber drama genre combination such as unnecessary repetitions that are the product of laying out the cards too soon.

  A woman is kidnapped by a family who claim that she is their missing daughter. She must impersonate this other woman in order to survive while she tries to find a way out of her nightmare.
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  Four Minus Three (2026)

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  Goiginger once again proves that he is a keen student of human nature, behaviour, interactions with society and the eternal pursuit of living one’s life in one's own way.

  A family of professional clowns is hit by tragedy.
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  The Front Room (2024)

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  Thin, schlocky and undercooked

  Trouble brews for a pregnant couple after they make a deal to look after the wife's stepmother-in-law.
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  Frost (2026)

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  It shows Vučković’s growth as an auteur.

  A rational, emotionally distant female police detective investigates the disappearance of a girl in a region famous for black magic and pagan heritage. Her investigation gradually becomes a journey into a mythical world.
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  The Girl In The Snow (2025)

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  A handsome piece of cinematic work,

  1899. On a stormy night, Aimée, a young Republican schoolteacher, arrives in a snowy hamlet on the edge of the Alps. Despite the mistrust of the inhabitants, she is determined to shed light on their dark beliefs. As she blends into the life of the community, a sensual vertigo grows within her.
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  God Will Not Help (2025)

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  An extremely unnerving viewing experience

  A Chilean woman acts as a catalyst in a Croatian shepherd family after she arrives claiming to be the wife of their dead brother.
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  Hidden People (2025)

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  One could imagine a global, English-language remake of Hidden People that could almost write itself, largely thanks to the universal and bulletproof story.

  Handcuffed and with no memory, two strangers build a raft to rescue their broken lives.
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  The History Of Sound (2025)

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  Most of the filmmaker’s passion, wisdom and wits is packed in the first half, while the second half represents pure “production” of content.

  Two young men in 1920 set out to record the lives, voices and music of their American countrymen.
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  The Home (2025)

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  The real candy is the omnipresent densely uncomfortable atmosphere that comes on top of the richly detailed observations and conclusions in the film's lower layers.

  Many years after leaving, Joel returns home to move his mother Monika to a care facility for the elderly struggling with dementia. But as she starts to have terrifying visions, he begins to suspect something supernatural is at work.
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  House Of Sayuri (2024)

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  House of Sayuri plays like a peculiar rather than fully accomplished movie

  A vengeful ghost decimates a family until a counterattack from a bold grandmother brings a startling new dynamic into the house.
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  How To Be Normal And The Oddness Of The Other World (2025)

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  It is a ride, okay, and it is a bit nauseating and therefore not sterile.

  Freshly released from psychiatric hospital, Pia moves back in with her parents to rebuild her life. In a world that feels as unsteady as herself, she juggles jobs, heartbreak, her meds and social stigma as she searches for equilibrium.
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  Hungarian Wedding (2025)

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  Unlike other movies, where the music and the dancing usually serve as a sort of ill.ustrative, colourful background, here they dictate the rhythmic backbone of the film

  András and Péter are two young men trying to make it big with their rock band in Budapest in the early 1980s. When the opportunity arises to attend the wedding of András’s cousin in Transylvania, they decide to take it as a chance to raise some money. Once there, they embark on an unexpected adventure.
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  Hysteria (2025)

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  Islamoglu has to play a complex character in a unique position, which she does in a fierce, naturalistic manner

  A film shoot turns dark when the burning of the Quran throws the crew into turmoil.
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  The Incredible Snow Woman (2025)

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  Without Blanche Gardin, who carries the whole film, The Incredible Snow Woman would be a mix of generic dramedy and equally generic comedy that simply tries too hard to send quirky and “subversive” vibes.

  A woman for whom an Arctic expedition holds no fear finds her personal life spiralling out of control.
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  The Instinct (2024)

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  Pereira and Cayo could probably carry a “two-hander” – which The Instinct is – with no trouble, but only if they had something real in their characters to work with

  A home invasion thriller featuring a dog trainer trying to modify a human's brain.
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  Invention (2024)

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  A proper little indie with a lot of heart and inspiration

  In the aftermath of a conspiracy-minded father’s unexpected death, his daughter receives his patent for an experimental healing device.
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  It Was Just an Accident (2025)

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  The takes are usually long and static, but every cut and move is justified for the purpose of dramaturgy.

  What begins as a minor accident sets in motion a series of escalating consequences.
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  Johatsu (2024)

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  A capable actress can do only so much to make herself watchable in a movie that is often not.

  A ship explodes. A man dies. A man disappears without a trace. Is it an accident or a cover-up?
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  Killer Heat (2024)

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  The trouble is that Lacote is in favour of telling rather than showing.

  An ex-pat private investigator is hired to investigate a death in Crete.
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  Little Trouble Girls (2025)

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  Along with Vladimir Gojun’s progressively rhythmic editing and Julij Zornik’s subjective sound design, the filmmaker takes us right into the protagonist’s, and therefore any and every teenager’s head.

  During a weekend of rehearsals with the school choir at a convent, an introverted teenager begins to view the world from a new perspective.
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  The Lost Son (2026)

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  Eventually, The Lost Son ends up as a mixed bag that serves as a portfolio of Štante’s technical abilities as a director, but shortcomings as a writer.

  A detective investigating a domestic abuse case who discovers that the perpetrator is his own brother, forcing him to confront the violence that shaped his childhood.
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  Love Letters (2025)

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  On the technical level, Jacques Girault’s usually hand-held cinematography keeps the immediacy of associated with that choice, but never slips into “chaos cinema” shakiness.

  Céline is expecting her firstborn. But she’s not the one who’s pregnant. In three months, her wife Nadia will give birth to their daughter. Under the gaze of her friends, her mother, and the law, Céline looks for her place and sense of legitimacy.
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  Love Me Tender (2025)

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  Krieps operates at her usual level of greatness, and Anna Cazenave Cambet does her a favour by putting her in the spotlight.

  One late summer, Clémence tells her ex-husband that she’s having romantic relationships with women. Her life is turned upside down when he takes custody of her son. Clémence must fight to remain a mother, a woman and a free woman.
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  Mama (2025)

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  Sinai portrays the situations one might find quite common and “close to home” with precision and emotional clarity.

  After many years working far from home, Mila is forced to temporarily leave her seaside mansion - and her secret romance - to return to her family in a remote Polish village. But the long-awaited reunion is far from what she imagined.
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  The Mastermind (2025)

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  Reichardt’s attention to detail is visible in every aspect, and the perfect casting is no exception.

  In a quiet corner of Massachusetts circa 1970, JB Mooney, an unemployed carpenter turned amateur art thief, plots his first major heist. But when things go south, his life is turned upside down.
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  Mektoub, My Love: Canto Due (2025)

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  When the twist, or better said, something actually resembling a plot, arrives, it is too late and the mechanics of it are too illogical, while the ending comes abruptly.

  Third in the Mektoub, My Love trilogy sees a soap star and her husband thrown into the mix.
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  Mickey 17 (2025)

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  Bong loses the thread in numerous half-baked sub-plots whose inflation takes its toll on the bloated runtime.

  The unlikely hero, Mickey Barnes, has found himself in the extraordinary circumstance of working for an employer who demands the ultimate commitment to the job … to die, for a living.
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  The Million Dollar Bet (2024)

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  The screenplay written by the filmmaker and Andrea Piva is a proper masterwork, from the basic plotting to the intelligent, insightful dialogue.

  A pair of pals find their friendship challenged when one of them decides to run three back-to-back marathons in 24 hours.
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  Misericordia (2024)

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  Once again, Guiraudie proves himself the master of setting up a mystery by the means of perfect script economy that functions strictly on “need to know” basis.

  A stranger’s appearance exposes the weird behaviour and the secret desires of a village's residents.
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  Mother's Baby (2025)

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  The filmmaker who previously made her name with romantic comedy-dramas, proves to be a bonafide genre auteur, although it is her first attempt

  The family dream becomes a nightmare as 40-year-old Julia struggles to bond with her newborn child.
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  My First Film (2024)

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  At its best, My First Film feels very disjointed in its apparent lack of any formal rigour, and it seems that Anger is using exactly that with the intention to sell it as an indisputable truth.

  A filmmaker tells the story of her cursed film in a work of autofiction.
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  Nino (2025)

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  Nino offers a glimpse into an ordinary, possibly unfulfilled life and the psyche of a contemporary man trying to reconfigure things in the wake of a challenge.

  Seventy-two hours before Nino's chemotherapy, he must complete the two missions given to him by his doctor.
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  No Comment (2025)

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  The trouble is that the whole thing is not exactly new for a viewer who has a clue or two about politics.

  A PM gets caught up in a scandal ahead of the election.
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  Oh Canada (2024)

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  Simply put, the viewer is constantly tempted to attribute the character’s old man’s ramblings both to the author of the source novel and to the filmmaker adapting it.

  A documentary filmmaker, who is terminally ill, reflects on his life.
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  On A String (2025)

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  There is no grand adventure, no melodramatic pathos, no broad comedy, just life as an eternal struggle for survival and for the chance of thriving, but also with a sense of warmth.

  Fresh out of Juilliard, a young violist returns home to live with her parents in the heart of New York City. Now it’s time to play gigs in the homes of strangers and make art with friends - nothing can go wrong, right?
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  The Order (2024)

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  The Order might not be too original, both in the plot and the character department, but it is very effective, functional movie fun.

  An FBI agent comes to believe a series of violent crimes are the work of domestic terrorists.