"Mountain life indeed motivates its players, but, as we come to learn, the bond between fathers and sons (or lack thereof), as well as the one between friends as close as brothers, is its true driving force."

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"In all my years, I’m not sure I’ve ever seen a film with such satisfying displays of brutality and gore as Helander gives us with his fantastically intense and surprisingly comic film."

Read my 4.5-star review of 'SISU' at THEDAILYORCA.BIGGERBOATPRESS.COM.

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"You could compare it to Alice in Wonderland, I suppose, but I don’t think Lewis Carroll could have dreamed this up no matter what kind of hallucinogens he had access to."

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"This is a film that takes a solitary conceit, opens it up into an impossibly brutal moral quandary, and then lets it flourish through fantastically acted dialogue and pacing."

Read my 4-star review of 'KNOCK AT THE CABIN' at THEDAILYORCA.BIGGERBOATPRESS.COM.

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"Don’t let this under-the-radar sleeper fool you, though. Underneath its goofy premise and socially awkward characters lies a nearly imperceptible layer of malice that oozes its way in and out of the film’s tone and comedic moments."

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"Legality and morality are not mutually exclusive, and Broker blurs the line between the two with the kind of heart and soul that very few directors can successfully pull off."

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"This circulating feedback loop of “art imitating life imitating art,” and so on, cannot sustain itself forever, and when it finally comes to an abrupt halt, its brief aftermath is one of the most ethically and emotionally pensive cinematic moments I’ve seen in some time."

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"Every inch of Marcel is overflowing with so much kindness and humanity that it’s bursting at the seams–but where other films would beat us over the head with saccharine and generic "feel good" moments, Marcel runs the gamut of emotions and does so with honesty and openness."

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