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Ela Bittencourt

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Last Summer (2023) 87% EDIT “The genius of Breillat’s storytelling and visual concept, with cinematography that bathes Anne in benign light, lies in the fact that her morality is impossible to pin down. ” – Sight & Sound Dec 31, 2025 Full Review Bird (2024) 86% EDIT “Newcomer Nykiya Adams triumphs as Bailey, commingling edginess, tenderness, and introspection; so do Barry Keoghan, whose Bug is as big-hearted and droll as he is hapless, and Rogowski, who delivers Bird’s stoic poise with a wispy softness. ” – Sight & Sound Dec 31, 2025 Full Review Kinds of Kindness (2024) 71% EDIT “Lanthimos follows up Poor Things (2023) with some far darker social experiments in this chilling portmanteau featuring brilliant, shapeshifting performances. ” – Sight & Sound Dec 31, 2025 Full Review Lula (2024) 64% EDIT “Centred on Oliver Stone’s extensive interview with Brazil’s charismatic left-wing President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, this engaging documentary exploration of the politician’s dramatic career feels a little too safe. ” – Sight & Sound Dec 31, 2025 Full Review Familiar Touch (2024) 98% EDIT “Sarah Friedland explores the human mind in all its frailness and glory with her exquisite drama about a woman with dementia adjusting to a new life at an assisted living facility. ” – Sight & Sound Dec 18, 2025 Full Review And Their Children After Them (2024) 82% EDIT “With lush cinematography and a throbbing 1990s-rock soundtrack, this sweet yet melancholic film establishes the Boukherma brothers as passionate chroniclers of their generation’s increasing sense of socioeconomic entrapment.” – Frieze Jan 3, 2025 Full Review Bestiaries, Herbaria, Lapidaries (2024) EDIT “As a whole, the film is as much a quiet condemnation of man’s extractivist attitudes as it is a cinematic dirge for humankind’s impending exit.” – Frieze Jan 3, 2025 Full Review Babygirl (2024) 76% EDIT “Highly refreshing... Kidman plays out kink scenes with a disarming mixture of vulnerability, hilarity and edginess.” – Frieze Jan 3, 2025 Full Review The Brutalist (2024) 93% EDIT “[The Brutalist] at times meandering and over-indulgent, misses the opportunity to illuminate how the architectural style emerged from the chaos and destruction of war. Nonetheless, the film is uplifted by Brody’s flinty performance.” – Frieze Jan 3, 2025 Full Review Murina (2021) 91% EDIT “Kusijanović articulates poignantly the heartbreak of familial love crudely bound up in the performance of power.” – Reverse Shot Mar 17, 2022 Full Review The Power of the Dog (2021) 94% EDIT “Campion handles such psychological denseness with virtuoso control, often whittling scenes to snippets of emotion and innuendo.” – Hyperallergic Dec 13, 2021 Full Review The Woman Who Ran (2019) 98% EDIT “More than any filmmaker of recent years, Hang-soo reminds his audience that such social performativity isn't without its perils.” – Sight & Sound Dec 5, 2021 Full Review What Do We See When We Look at the Sky? (2021) 90% EDIT “It's astounding how much fun Koberidze has with such a dire scenario.” – Sight & Sound Nov 13, 2021 Full Review Întregalde (2021) 88% EDIT “One need not have had any arduous alpine experience to appreciate the film's entertaining plot or Muntean's richly layered storytelling.” – Reverse Shot Oct 8, 2021 Full Review Unclenching the Fists (2021) 88% EDIT “The constant push-pull can at times seem like Kovalenko’s characters are wearing each other down, their lives one incessant wrestling match. However discomfiting, this wrangling is also riveting.” – Reverse Shot Oct 7, 2021 Full Review Never Gonna Snow Again (2020) 95% EDIT “Szumowska combines the social realism she's known for - marked by a dry, laconic tone - with a mystical plot.” – Hyperallergic Aug 3, 2021 Full Review Nina Wu (2019) 81% EDIT “In its desire to avoid cliches, Nina Wu skips over the more complex fallout of sexual trauma.” – Hyperallergic Aug 3, 2021 Full Review Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn (2021) 91% EDIT “Radu Jude's latest meets and defies all and any expectations in a flurry of comedy and porn.” – MUBI May 17, 2021 Full Review Rocks (2019) 97% EDIT “A compassionate, finely observed portrait of a young woman's gradual breaking down, as the usual buffers, including brotherly love and friendships, strain under her crushing responsibility.” – Sight & Sound Feb 14, 2021 Full Review Goodbye, Dragon Inn (2003) 81% EDIT “You'd never think a spacious, mostly empty movie theater could feel so tight.” – Hyperallergic Feb 8, 2021 Full Review Song Without a Name (2019) 93% EDIT “Its majestic, emotionally charged imagery, and stark vision of unredeemed humanity, are immensely engrossing.” – Hyperallergic Nov 17, 2020 Full Review Extreme Private Eros: Love Song 1974 (1974) EDIT “While navigating the relatively new terrain of their breakup, Miyuki is also politically invested in challenging traditional conceptions of women's roles at home and in Japanese society.” – cléo May 18, 2020 Full Review Bacurau (2019) 93% EDIT “Mendonça and Dornelles's film is... an attempt to grapple with unspeakable, horrifying evil -- but an evil that must be understood in social and historical rather than biblical terms.” – Harper's Magazine May 2, 2020 Full Review Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema (2018) 94% EDIT “Extensively researched and passionately told, at its best, Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema is a jazzy, Whitmanian hymn in praise of collective female genius.” – Hyperallergic Feb 27, 2020 Full Review In a Lonely Place (1950) 96% EDIT “In a Lonely Place isn't so much a straightforward thriller as it is a poignant psychological study of a person and a milieu, veiled as an atmospheric noir.” – Hyperallergic Feb 25, 2020 Full Review
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