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Malaga Film Festival 2025 Interview with Francisco Guijarro (Moses) "Seeing him watch his story unfold on screen, knowing it had finally been told, was one of the most powerful moments of my life."
Malaga Film Festival 2025 Moses Fran Guijarro’s feature documentary is one of the most empathetic and humanistic documentaries I’ve ever seen.
In Review Online How to Train Your Dragon — Dean DeBlois [Review] 2025's How to Train Your Dragon drags and loses its way under a strained and failed effort to make everything bigger and bolder.
Vietnamese Cinema Detective Kien: The Headless Horror Ugly people don’t exist in Victor Vu's worlds, for better and worse.
Sydney Film Festival The Wanderer Well-known portrait photographer takes director's chair in order to a create visually impressive short film about death and the afterlife - from the Sydney Film Festival
Fritz on Fridays Fritz on Fridays: Rancho Notorious The final 15 minutes of Rancho Notorious are spectacular.
Korean Cinema The Old Woman with the Knife — Min Kyu-dong [Review] For all their effort to hide age in the action, the filmmakers take the opposite approach to the symbolism.
In Review Online Karate Kid: Legends — Jonathan Entwistle [Review] Much like a child trick-or-treating in a small neighborhood and returning again and again to the same houses, the Karate Kid franchise will keep coming back until it no longer gets the goods it asks for.
No Gods Left Exclusive Ash Ash is the vision of a filmmaker reared on the hectic images of music videos. The ambition gets swallowed by its derivativeness.
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