Reviews
4
in total
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Fauna
A review by Manuel Betancourt for Variety2021-07-29
With a breezy 70 minute runtime, Fauna is a delightful puzzle of a film. Even as it leans heavily into its metafictional conceits, laying bare just how much of its second half, for instance, is pure fantasy (or is it?), Pereda’s actors find ways of unearthing emotionally wrenching moments.Read entire review on Variety -
Eyimofe (This Is My Desire)
A review by Manuel Betancourt for Variety2021-07-26
Painstakingly conceived and teeming with raw, unbridled energy, Eyimofe offers a sumptuous, keen-eyed look at modern Lagosian life.Read entire review on Variety -
Till Death
A review by Manuel Betancourt for Variety2021-07-01
Even as the twists and turns get ever more preposterous . . . Dale’s direction and Fox’s commitment go a long way toward making Till Death a glossy, entertaining lark. Just maybe not one with anything of substance to say about marriage as its cheeky title suggests.Read entire review on Variety -
Dance of the 41
A review by Manuel Betancourt for Variety2021-07-01
Its final beat, like the entirety of its fabulous, tragic final act, is as masterful as it is heartbreaking. As a whole, though, it remains too stilted, like a painstakingly staged tableau vivant of late-19th-century Mexico and the patriarchal power structures that undergirded it.Read entire review on Variety
