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Leonardo Goi

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Biography:

Leonardo Goi is a film critic and columnist at MUBI Notebook, and a regular contributor to The Film Stage, Reverse Shot, Senses of Cinema, Film Comment, among others. He runs and mentors at several film criticism workshops, among them the Berlinale Talent Press, the European Workshop for Film Criticism, and the Golden Apricot International Film Festival's Young Critics Campus.

Reviews

Movies TV Shows
Late Fame (2026) 85% EDIT “Late Fame isn’t a tribute to a bygone era but a much livelier chronicle of different generations clashing and mixing.” – The Film Stage Oct 20, 2025 Full Review Duse (2025) 67% EDIT “If his late-life tribute to a legendary artist is spared from the museological qualities of other dramas of its ilk, it still keeps its heroine and her world shrouded in mystery.” – The Film Stage Sep 6, 2025 Full Review Rose of Nevada (2025) 100% EDIT “In many ways a summation of Jenkin’s preoccupations with the disappearance of Cornwall’s traditional lifestyles and the extent to which local communities can withstand the loss.” – The Film Stage Aug 31, 2025 Full Review After the Hunt (2025) 37% EDIT “If there’s anything genuinely uncomfortable about Luca Guadagnino’s film, it’s not any button-pushing issues but the reactionary way it squanders them.” – The Film Stage Aug 29, 2025 Full Review It Was Just an Accident (2025) 97% EDIT “There’s nothing vindictive about its tone; the careful line Panahi treads between empathy and righteous fury is his greatest success.” – The Film Stage May 22, 2025 Full Review The Secret Agent (2025) 98% EDIT “It also helps that Agent is set during carnival, leaving Recife to teem with life at its most unruly and vibrant; though the film is cloaked in darkness, its frames are nothing short of ravishing.” – The Film Stage May 21, 2025 Full Review I Only Rest in the Storm (2025) 79% EDIT “That I Only Rest in the Storm should overflow with ideas is not in itself an indictment; it’s that the film should gradually shed so many of its mysteries and ambiguities. ” – The Film Stage May 17, 2025 Full Review Two Prosecutors (2025) 95% EDIT “Two Prosecutors exemplifies a salient trait of Loznitsa’s forays into the past: rather than caches of some bygone eras, these are genealogical works that invite us to consider the legacy of those horrors today.” – The Film Stage May 16, 2025 Full Review John Lilly and the Earth Coincidence Control Office (2025) EDIT “Earth Coincidence isn’t a biopic so much as a study of a few tumultuous decades in US history, and how ideas––even and especially the most absurd––can seep into culture.” – The Film Stage Feb 25, 2025 Full Review Reflection in a Dead Diamond (2025) 84% EDIT “Here’s a film that manages to be both familiar and completely different, a work of visceral pleasures uninterested in genuflecting to rules or expectations. ” – The Film Stage Feb 19, 2025 Full Review Mickey 17 (2025) 78% EDIT “With Mickey 17, [Bong Joon Ho has] crafted something that’s oddly inert: a story that’s all too eager to tell us where our allegiances should lie” – The Film Stage Feb 15, 2025 Full Review Wind, Talk to Me (2025) B+ EDIT “Wind, Talk to Me is itself an act of faith: a son learning to surrender to the world and finding his mother flowing through it still. ” – The Film Stage Feb 11, 2025 Full Review Stranger Eyes (2024) 82% B- EDIT “This is when Stranger Eyes is at its strongest: when it taps into the actor’s ability to look with eyes that aren’t strange so much as ancient, a gaze that always seems to invite me to see the world anew.” – The Film Stage Dec 6, 2024 Full Review Dream Team (2024) B+ EDIT “By the time Dream Team comes to its enigmatic ending, the journey has accrued a disorienting power––it’s the vertigo that comes from watching a film fearlessly pushing against the limits of what can be told, and how. ” – The Film Stage Nov 19, 2024 Full Review Broken Rage (2024) 86% B EDIT “locking in at 62 minutes, Broken Rage is not a simple divertissement, but a rollicking self-portrait: an artist rethinking his relationship with the medium he’s mastered and having a decidedly grand time in the process.” – The Film Stage Sep 7, 2024 Full Review Queer (2024) 77% C- EDIT “Dirty as the novella was, Guadagnino’s adaptation feels almost antiseptic. It’s not that characters are immune to shit and self-destruction. It’s that the director, working with a script by Justin Kuritzkes, operates on a completely different register.” – The Film Stage Sep 3, 2024 Full Review The Sparrow in the Chimney (2024) 67% B EDIT “With its deep, bold dives into the nightmarish and the surreal, The Sparrow in the Chimney is that rare film that feels like a catharsis for protagonist and director both.” – The Film Stage Aug 20, 2024 Full Review Black Dog (2024) 98% B+ EDIT “The sense of catharsis the film musters in its closing shots is nothing short of remarkable. It’s a small wonder that Black Dog, drenched in sorrow as it is, can wrap with a coda this invigorating. ” – The Film Stage May 30, 2024 Full Review Misericordia (2024) 94% A- EDIT “Everyone gets to yearn in Guiraudie’s cinema; whether those urges are ever satisfied, there’s something almost disarmingly fair about the way his films treat that most cardinal of human drives.” – The Film Stage May 27, 2024 Full Review Limonov: The Ballad of Eddie (2024) 63% B EDIT “One of the director’s strongest in quite some time, a film whose form feels wholly in service of the story and man at its center. ” – The Film Stage May 21, 2024 Full Review Dahomey (2024) 97% A- EDIT “In Diop’s hands, what might have unfolded as a mere chronicle of a journey morphs into something far more electrifying and disturbing. ” – The Film Stage Feb 26, 2024 Full Review Here (2023) 95% EDIT “To peg [the director's] work as that of a miniaturist only lays bare the limited language we use to describe a film [...] Devos’s cinema is expansive, and that’s especially true in Here, possibly his biggest and most ambitious to date.” – Reverse Shot Feb 13, 2024 Full Review Swimming Home (2024) 31% C EDIT “Swimming Home kicks off as a simmering psycho-sexual thriller in the vein of Jacques Deray’s 1969 La Piscine––or its 2015 remake by Luca Guadagnino, A Bigger Splash––only to trade that initial disquiet for something far more turgid.” – The Film Stage Feb 12, 2024 Full Review Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell (2023) 94% A- EDIT “ It’d be tempting to invoke the specters of Apichatpong Weerasethakul and Tsai Ming-liang to account for Pham’s blend of mysticism, and while Cocoon Shell makes no secret of its touchstones, there is no sense of regurgitation or preening showmanship. ” – The Film Stage Jan 17, 2024 Full Review Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World (2023) 96% A- EDIT “Do Not Expect feels like a film under pressure, ready to detonate with a creative force that redoubles the go-for-broke passion attached to its protagonist’s hustles. It is a testament to cinema’s shapeshifting power––what it can do, what it can be. ” – The Film Stage Nov 7, 2023 Full Review
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