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Lee Marshall

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Black Rabbit, White Rabbit (2025) EDIT “Mokri’s wildly ambitious, wryly comic puzzle film is ultimately more intriguing, original and clever than it is dramatically satisfying. But that’s more than enough to tempt cineastes in search of energising world cinema.” – Screen International Dec 6, 2025 Full Review Secret of a Mountain Serpent (2025) EDIT “Saxena’s second feature will reward patient audiences who are not too bothered about explanations, or are happy to provide their own. ” – Screen International Nov 26, 2025 Full Review A Year of School (2025) EDIT “If it lacks some of the strangeness and wonder of Samani’s debut, it still works as an engaging comedy-tinged drama of the kind that streaming platforms often snap up.” – Screen International Nov 26, 2025 Full Review The Prince of Nanawa (2025) EDIT “A film that invites us to turn off all other inputs and let ourselves get pulled into a story that plays on in the mind long after the end titles.” – Screen International Nov 15, 2025 Full Review Steal This Story, Please! (2025) EDIT “Steal This Story, Please! builds a convincing case for the ability of dogged, courageous reporting to mobilise pressure against injustice and effect change.” – Screen International Nov 13, 2025 Full Review Palestine 36 (2025) 100% EDIT “Jacir’s script moves with pace and verve, sometimes startlingly so, from character to character and strand to strand, gradually revealing their interconnections. ” – Screen International Oct 16, 2025 Full Review Ish (2025) EDIT “Ish is at its most trenchant, and moving, when it fully integrates this reflective adult view of a story that feels deeply personal with the joys and pains of its young protagonists.” – Screen International Oct 15, 2025 Full Review Gavagai (2025) EDIT “With its queasy, see-saw rhythm and off-pitch notes, it’s the perfect accompaniment to the tonal and thematic balancing act of Kohler’s nuanced satirical drama.” – Screen International Oct 1, 2025 Full Review Bravo Bene! (2025) EDIT “Maresco’s relentless placing of himself at the centre of the film may be another satirical tactic. But it still becomes a little wearing... Still, there are moments of priceless comedy.” – Screen International Sep 5, 2025 Full Review Kim Novak's Vertigo (2025) 92% EDIT “[An] engaging, fluid portrait of an inspiring woman.” – Screen International Sep 5, 2025 Full Review Duse (2025) 67% EDIT “It’s an exercise the director and his co-writers don’t quite manage to pull off, but it still makes for an original, thought-provoking journey. Deeply cinematic, this is a film for historically-minded arthouse audiences who like a challenge.” – Screen International Sep 3, 2025 Full Review My Tennis Maestro (2025) EDIT “This tale of a teenage tennis star and his former-champion trainer is bouyed by a pair of sparkling performances, from Tiziano Menichelli and Pierfrancesco Favino respectively, that play out as one long match-point rally.” – Screen International Sep 2, 2025 Full Review The Stranger (2025) 88% EDIT “For most of its running time, until a stretched final 20 minutes, The Stranger is a reasonably absorbing study of a man for whom everything seems to mean less than zero. ” – Screen International Sep 2, 2025 Full Review Below the Clouds (2025) 94% EDIT “The story Rosi weaves here about Naples as an urban limbo space is still deeply evocative, and not without moments of wry humour. ” – Screen International Sep 1, 2025 Full Review Father Mother Sister Brother (2025) 81% EDIT “It’s a work of pared-back humanism in which the cineaste from Ohio, now in his 70s seventies, finally goes full Ozu, but it also feels, at times, like the work of a younger director with an appetite for the expressive potential of slow cinema.” – Screen International Aug 31, 2025 Full Review The Kidnapping of Arabella (2025) EDIT “It is perhaps Guglielmino’s lovely, artfully artless performance as Arabella that will do most to mollify those who are uncertain whether to be charmed or annoyed. ” – Screen International Aug 29, 2025 Full Review Ghost Elephants (2025) 100% EDIT “Most importantly, Ghost Elephants is an engaging story well-told, one that takes us to a far-flung part of the world, exposes its raw beauty, and spends time with its curious human inhabitants.” – Screen International Aug 28, 2025 Full Review 13 Days 13 Nights (2025) EDIT “The best way to approach 13 Days 13 Nights is to know next to nothing about the story, swallow the clichés, and enjoy it as a quite old-fashioned Franco-Hollywood production of the kind Luc Besson used to specialise in. ” – Screen International May 28, 2025 Full Review Resurrection (2025) 89% EDIT “Resurrection feels like an elegy for an artform. ” – Screen International May 28, 2025 Full Review The History of Sound (2025) 70% EDIT “This hardening of a gentle soul is well brought out in the script, and Mescal’s well-honed performance.” – Screen International May 21, 2025 Full Review Fuori (2025) 57% EDIT “The temporal leaps don’t distract us from the fact that the plot is threadbare in places... Such lapses are compensated for by the crackle in the air whenever the two women meet up in Rome once they’re both on the outside. ” – Screen International May 21, 2025 Full Review A Private Life (2025) 81% EDIT “Ultimately, it’s difficult to say what A Private Life is trying to say, but remarriage comedies don’t really need to be anything more than that -- and the ending is winsome enough to make up for that second-act wobble.” – Screen International May 20, 2025 Full Review Alpha (2025) 56% EDIT “Bodily transformation and laceration are by no means absent, but they serve to tease out and layer the emotion. Alpha is teeming with ideas, even if not all of them mesh in a story that uses some old-school auditory persuasions to try to win us around.” – Screen International May 19, 2025 Full Review The Wave (2025) 60% EDIT “The message is urgent, but the viewing experience is not.” – Screen International May 17, 2025 Full Review Nouvelle Vague (2025) 91% EDIT “This affectionate homage to a slice of urban French cool that has rarely been equalled is also a nostalgic tribute to a time and place of extraordinary creative ferment and cinematic sex appeal. ” – Screen International May 17, 2025 Full Review
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