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Nina Roza (2026) EDIT “A film of many subtle, tricky marvels, Geneviève Dulude-De Celles‘s slowly bewitching “Nina Roza” comes closer than many to conveying that strange, imprecise separation of the soul.” – Variety Feb 17, 2026 Full Review At the Sea (2026) 36% EDIT “A drab and laborious recovery drama with a mystifying amount of major-league talent behind it.” – Variety Feb 17, 2026 Full Review Rose (2026) 100% EDIT “For all the Olympian acting craft it showcases, “Rose” is no mere performance vehicle.. It’s a work so tightly disciplined in every aspect that any bum thespian note would shatter the whole immaculate construction.” – Variety Feb 17, 2026 Full Review Rosebush Pruning (2026) 40% EDIT “Does “Rosebush Pruning” lose some perspective in all this dazzle? Perhaps. But if you’re going to eat the rich, the film reasons, they may as well be delicious.” – Variety Feb 14, 2026 Full Review Dao (2026) EDIT “Though its supersized scale and meandering narrative structure may deter less adventurous arthouse distributors, [Alain] Gomis’s latest work nonetheless feels like his most vibrantly expansive and accessible.” – Variety Feb 14, 2026 Full Review A Prayer for the Dying (2026) EDIT “It’s an imposing, ascetic debut, braced by performances of formidable grit and commitment from Johnny Flynn and John C. Reilly.” – Variety Feb 14, 2026 Full Review Everybody Digs Bill Evans (2026) EDIT “What could feel contrived emerges as elegant and honestly felt, a study not just of the tumult that often produces great art, but the silence too.” – Variety Feb 14, 2026 Full Review No Good Men (2026) EDIT “No Good Men feels all the more textured and vitally of its moment for its flaws and lapses. It has the unfakeable air of a film made in genuinely urgent circumstances, which makes its emotional surges feel hard-earned. ” – Variety Feb 12, 2026 Full Review All About the Money (2026) EDIT “Who is Chambers really, behind all this provocation and prevarication? “All About the Money” never quite finds out, but it excavates enough to hint that he might not know either.” – Variety Feb 2, 2026 Full Review How to Divorce During the War (2026) 100% EDIT “A drily witty, subtly searing comedy from writer-director Andrius Blaževičius, “How to Divorce During the War” is both empathetic and surgical as it examines both partners’ attempts to sublimate selfish angst into social activism.” – Variety Feb 2, 2026 Full Review Shame and Money (2026) 100% EDIT “Though his latest is a slow burn offering little in the way of hope or levity, Morina doesn’t trade in one-note miserablism either: Intricately observed domestic dynamics keep the drama textured and humane.” – Variety Feb 2, 2026 Full Review Saccharine (2026) 70% EDIT “Real-life horror of one’s own body is the most insidious kind of body horror at play here, though James’ film offers a measure of the gorily fantastical stuff too.” – Variety Jan 29, 2026 Full Review Rock Springs (2026) 74% EDIT “Miao has a brisk, tingling command of atmosphere, and if she occasionally seems still in search of a style all her own, this promising debut has a human touch and point of view that are rather more distinctive within the genre.” – Variety Jan 26, 2026 Full Review Frank & Louis (2026) 91% EDIT “For stars Rob Morgan and Kingsley Ben-Adir, meanwhile, it’s a pleasingly patient and generous showcase: Both give performances of exquisite composure, with roiling anguish beneath the stillness.” – Variety Jan 26, 2026 Full Review zi (2026) 71% EDIT “If the film weren’t so arresting to look at, it could often be absorbed with eyes closed: If its larger message is elusive, “Zi” advocates for taking the world in at your own sensory pace.” – Variety Jan 25, 2026 Full Review The Musical (2026) 56% EDIT “A Tony-winning stage actor who has long been a trusty indie ensemble player, Brill seizes his most substantial film role to date with sneering relish.” – Variety Jan 25, 2026 Full Review One in a Million (2026) 100% EDIT “One in a Million is one of those close-quarters character-study docs filmed with such intimate fluidity that you almost forget the complexities of inserting a camera in this fraught domestic space.” – Variety Jan 25, 2026 Full Review Lady (2026) 94% EDIT “In some ways, Nwosu’s script subverts expectations. In others, it traces a classic, bittersweet arc of growth and self-realization even when plans are thrown off course. ” – Variety Jan 23, 2026 Full Review People We Meet on Vacation (2026) 76% EDIT “What keeps things diverting, and sometimes even interesting, is the genuine but necessarily tentative chemistry between its stars, one staging an all-out charm offensive and the other projecting a flintier allure. ” – Variety Jan 9, 2026 Full Review David (2025) 78% EDIT “A proficient family entertainment that’s nonetheless a little too precision-engineered to feel truly stirring. Faith, “David” has in spades; soul, not so much.” – Variety Dec 23, 2025 Full Review The Outrun (2024) 82% EDIT “As an inward study of self-redemption, however, The Outrun has a defiant, angular power – and, in Ronan, the right actor to convey it. ” – Sight & Sound Dec 19, 2025 Full Review The Count of Monte Cristo (2024) 97% EDIT “Once Dantès’s daft, years-in-the-making prison break gets under way, however, it’s off to the races, as the film breathlessly fills its three hours with so much domino-stacked incident that we scarcely have a moment to think about it.” – Sight & Sound Dec 18, 2025 Full Review Goodbye June (2025) 65% EDIT “The film never quite locates the heart, in large part because it never cracks its collective of variously dissatisfied characters -- all of whom want for interior life and detail beyond their present unhappy circumstances.” – Variety Dec 11, 2025 Full Review Remake (2025) EDIT ““Remake” is extraordinarily clear-eyed for a work so broken-hearted.” – Variety Dec 9, 2025 Full Review When a River Becomes the Sea (2025) EDIT ““When a River Becomes the Sea” sets out to be an imposing and even testing work, but it’s also an emotionally involving one -- warmed by the intimately drawn relationship between Gaia and her desperately aggrieved single father.” – Variety Nov 26, 2025 Full Review
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