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Jessica Kiang

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Megalopolis (2024) 46% EDIT “A bloated mess of philosophising and incomplete plotlines, made with such sincerity it becomes fascinatingly lovable.” – Sight & Sound Dec 31, 2025 Full Review Wolfs (2024) 66% EDIT “Instead of bouncy banter we get interminable repetitions of the same line back and forth, with different inflections, as though we’re watching some ungodly riff on the Abbott & Costello “Who’s on First?” sketch, minus the actual wordplay. ” – Sight & Sound Dec 18, 2025 Full Review In Camera (2023) 100% EDIT “Naqqash Khalid’s frequently inspired debut delivers a sharp skewering of the British film industry with an extraordinary lead performance from Nabhaan Rizwan as struggling actor Aden. ” – Sight & Sound Dec 18, 2025 Full Review Joker: Folie à Deux (2024) 31% EDIT “Folie à Deux is a far less morally quarrelsome film, which makes it both less interesting and a sight more enjoyable – if you like the songs. ” – Sight & Sound Dec 18, 2025 Full Review The Holy Boy (2025) EDIT “Plot and character are knotted elegantly around a surprisingly melancholic core, that reminds us we need pain in our lives, even when our lives are made unlivable by that pain. ” – Variety Nov 26, 2025 Full Review God Will Not Help (2025) EDIT “Even at 137 minutes, it never drags. Instead it slowly scorches deeper, an ember that carries inside it the potential at any moment to ignite with some uncontrollable emotion.” – Variety Nov 26, 2025 Full Review Becoming (2025) EDIT “A stirring portrait of a solitary young woman longing to belong and to be free of belonging, while learning the harsh lesson that, swim all you like, some undercurrents are just too strong to escape. ” – Variety Nov 26, 2025 Full Review Sorella di Clausura (2025) EDIT “Once you [see past the shock factor], it’s strangely sweet and -- apologies to the filmmakers, who will likely be horrified -- heartwarming.” – Variety Nov 26, 2025 Full Review Anora (2024) 93% EDIT “By turns swoony, funny, panicky and sad, this is the director’s most vivid creation yet.” – Sight & Sound Nov 20, 2025 Full Review Queer (2024) 77% EDIT “A superb Daniel Craig drinks and dopes his days away in Mexico and becomes besotted with a young man in Guadagnino’s poetic reinvention of Burroughs’ grimy, semi-autobiographical novel. ” – Sight & Sound Nov 20, 2025 Full Review Babygirl (2024) 76% EDIT “At just the point you fear you (and Romy) have had all the fun you can be allowed Reijn takes delight in swerving away from the obvious moralistic outcome.” – Sight & Sound Nov 11, 2025 Full Review April (2024) 95% EDIT “For all her rebellion and acts of resistance, the very existence of that wheezing deformity within Nina, that thing that lives inside her... represents the final triumph of the malignant, invisible but ubiquitous force that is patriarchal oppression.” – Sight & Sound Nov 5, 2025 Full Review Two Seasons, Two Strangers (2025) EDIT “Unfolding in a playful but deeply felt register that is perhaps more melancomedy than tragicomedy, but that delivers the rare satisfaction of watching modest, thoughtful people find just what they need in the last place they’d expect it.” – Sight & Sound Nov 4, 2025 Full Review Three Goodbyes (2025) EDIT “A funny, rueful valentine to the fine art of the farewell -- the smaller ones that litter our lives and the big final one at the end. ” – Variety Oct 14, 2025 Full Review California Schemin' (2025) 95% EDIT “McAvoy’s smarts in bringing out some of those unusual textures while the main engine of his movie chugs merrily away to an audience-friendly, exportable beat, is good reason to watch California Schemin’.” – Variety Oct 6, 2025 Full Review Swiped (2025) 44% EDIT “Wolfe’s particular genius seems to have been for marketing. Maybe it’s appropriate that a movie about her plays like a marketing exercise: simplified, sanitized, suspect. ” – Variety Sep 19, 2025 Full Review Glenrothan (2025) EDIT “It’s unfortunate that the film itself is more like a bottom-shelf blend: easily drinkable, highly forgettable, bland. Worse still, it won’t get you even mildly buzzed. ” – Variety Sep 15, 2025 Full Review Driver's Ed (2025) 80% EDIT “Both an obvious product of ’90s nostalgia and the definitive cure for it, Bobby Farrelly‘s terminally innocuous “Driver’s Ed” can be described as a youth comedy, but whose youth? ” – Variety Sep 15, 2025 Full Review The Smashing Machine (2025) 70% EDIT “[Johnson] makes it a fascinating essay on physique and fame, in which a guy who almost sacrificed one in the nearly-but-not-quite pursuit of the other, is played, with consummate skill, by a man who is the epitome of both. ” – Sight & Sound Sep 8, 2025 Full Review My Tennis Maestro (2025) EDIT “With his wolfish grin and rascally vibe, his hungover eyes concealed by mirrored aviators, Favino plays the type as though he invented it. ” – Variety Sep 8, 2025 Full Review After the Hunt (2025) 37% EDIT “Maggie becomes the unwieldy avatar for everything Gen-X doesn’t get about Gen-Z — which is, apparently, everything — with the blank incomprehension regarding the younger generation amounting to disdain...” – Sight & Sound Sep 4, 2025 Full Review Girl (2025) 70% EDIT “In its emotional candor and a finale that lands with surprising grace... “Girl” indicates that its director has a valuable perspective.” – Variety Sep 4, 2025 Full Review Elisa (2025) EDIT “This is a smaller, less gripping film than it could have been, but then perhaps that’s to some degree the point. ” – Variety Sep 4, 2025 Full Review The Stranger (2025) 88% EDIT “The major achievement of Ozon’s film is to adapt literature without literalizing, and to honor the novel’s mystery without trying to solve it. ” – Variety Sep 2, 2025 Full Review Father Mother Sister Brother (2025) 81% EDIT “An unusually delightful hangout movie. The kind you might go and see in the cool of the evening when everything is getting kind of groovy. ” – Variety Aug 31, 2025 Full Review
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