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Michael Sicinski

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The Perfect Neighbor (2025) 99% EDIT “It is impossible... not be shattered by [the film]. However... That the Owens family’s profound grief was turned into a spectacle, presumably for its educational value, is revolting.” – In Review Online Oct 28, 2025 Full Review Orwell: 2 + 2 = 5 (2025) 84% EDIT “Apart from [its cold comforts], what can Peck’s film tell us that we aren’t confronting on a daily basis?... It’s difficult not to feel like Orwell: 2+2=5 is recommending checkers maneuvers in a deadly game of chess.” – In Review Online Oct 13, 2025 Full Review Girl (2025) 70% EDIT “A beautiful film about a number of ugly subjects.” – In Review Online Sep 24, 2025 Full Review Below the Clouds (2025) 94% EDIT “A documentary that is in its own way like smoke. Rather than adopting the firm architecture of argumentation, Below the Clouds moves out in all directions, like a sort of essayistic vapor.” – In Review Online Sep 24, 2025 Full Review Franz (2025) 74% EDIT “As colossal a bellyflop as we’ve seen from a luminary director in several years... overstuffed with absolute nonsense.” – In Review Online Sep 15, 2025 Full Review Mama (2025) EDIT “The film constructs a world filled with real, imperfect people, sometimes blinded by their own good intentions. And with one ill-conceived revelation, Mama blows it all to hell.” – In Review Online Sep 15, 2025 Full Review Forastera (2025) 94% EDIT “Forastera wisely steers clear of classic psychological or supernatural themes of identity swapping... [which] speaks to Iglesias’ surefooted writing and direction.” – In Review Online Sep 15, 2025 Full Review The Sun Rises on Us All (2025) 79% EDIT “The Sun Rises on Us All sidesteps miserabilism by asking us to sympathize with imperfect people trying to make their way in a society that appears irreparably broken.” – In Review Online Sep 15, 2025 Full Review Olmo (2025) EDIT “Much of what Eimbcke has to offer you’ve seen before, although perhaps with less symmetry or precision.” – In Review Online Sep 15, 2025 Full Review Lucky Lu (2025) EDIT “Lucky Lu is content to depict its protagonist as a human doing rather than a human being. We come away with an understanding that life is hard, but most of us already knew that.” – In Review Online Sep 8, 2025 Full Review Remake (2025) EDIT “Given the subject matter of Remake, it’s impossible not to be moved by it. McElwee’s pain saturates every frame, and is made even more poignant by his attempts to keep his agony at bay.” – In Review Online Sep 6, 2025 Full Review Director’s Diary (2025) EDIT “Director’s Diary is a remarkable, audacious, eye-glazing piece of work.” – In Review Online Sep 6, 2025 Full Review The Gloria of Your Imagination (2025) EDIT “In The Gloria of your Imagination, Reeves engages in cinematic creation as a kind of reading process... [and] has made a major new contribution to this project of historical-materialist cinema.” – In Review Online Sep 2, 2025 Full Review The Seasons (2025) EDIT “Fazendeiro uses cinema as an instrument for excavating the various layers of history contained within any given landscape. [The Seasons is] a complex work of human geography.” – In Review Online Aug 16, 2025 Full Review Kontinental '25 (2025) 95% EDIT “At this point, Radu Jude is working at the height of his artistic powers... [Kontinental '25] should be a breakthrough hit.” – In Review Online Jul 12, 2025 Full Review When Fall Is Coming (2024) 97% EDIT “When Fall is Coming creates an atmosphere of vague threat in the Burgundy region, where lovely vistas and peaceful nature walks are scored with quiet, insistent strings and single piano notes. ” – In Review Online May 3, 2025 Full Review Wild Diamond (2024) 85% EDIT “Wild Diamond is a promising but largely unsophisticated film, with Riedinger often making her very obvious themes even more explicit through dialogue.” – In Review Online Mar 12, 2025 Full Review Better Man (2024) 89% EDIT “Taken as a standard music biopic, Better Man has standout moments...But none of this can fully compensate for the fact that Better Man strictly follows a rise-and-fall-and-resurrection path that we’ve seen charted by dozens of biopics.” – In Review Online Dec 30, 2024 Full Review The Girl With the Needle (2024) 92% EDIT “The Girl with the Needle [is] effective but empty, an exercise in precision that never manages to rise above formal demonstration or make us truly care about its protagonist.” – In Review Online Dec 4, 2024 Full Review Union (2024) 89% EDIT “The film rightly celebrates a glimmer of hope in an era of all-encompassing darkness, but with a bit more insight, it might’ve pointed the way toward future victories.” – In Review Online Oct 17, 2024 Full Review Rumours (2024) 76% EDIT “[Rumours] has been filled by paranoia and repulsive glad-handing. This is both a rambling boardroom joke and the worst-ever season of MTV’s Real World: seven technocrats were lost in the woods, and you won’t believe what happened next!” – In Review Online Oct 12, 2024 Full Review Bird (2024) 86% EDIT “Arnold is so besotted with her very particular image of Britain's urban poor that, despite her best intentions, Bird is classist and condescending.” – In Review Online Sep 15, 2024 Full Review Dahomey (2024) 97% EDIT “In just over an hour, Diop provides viewers with a sharp, economical film essay about this problem, and does so within a fairly recognizable avant-doc form.” – In Review Online Sep 11, 2024 Full Review Hard Truths (2024) 95% EDIT “Mike Leigh, one of cinema’s last great humanists, has chosen to remind us that bitterness consumes everything, and that it is impossible to love others until you find the strength to heal.” – In Review Online Sep 10, 2024 Full Review Drowning Dry (2024) 80% EDIT “Bareiša seems like a director who will eventually make a very good film, but thus far he hasn't managed to get out of his own way.” – In Review Online Aug 15, 2024 Full Review
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