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‘On Behalf of My Son’ Review: A Strained Brazilian Drama About a Mother’s Apology Tour (opens the original)
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A mysterious bus crash lays the foundation for Gabriel Martins’ unfocused Netflix release, premiering in Toronto's Platform competition. A Brazilian drama with a powerful premise but labored execution, Gabriel Martins’ “On Behalf of My Son” follows the ripple effects of a tragic bus accident through the eyes of the driver’s mother, Vicentina (Rejane Faria). As she pillories herself with an apology tour, family members of the other victims veer in and out of the spotlight, offering more potential
‘Up Against It’ Review: Antonio Banderas Stars in a British Family Dramedy That Ignores Its Own Conundrums (opens the original)
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Trudie Styler directs a scattered story of divorce, a sick child, medical ethics, and a great many glossed-over ideas. A crisscrossing family dramedy, Trudie Styler’s “Up Against It” features wonderful performances and intriguingly modern ideas, but it seldom coheres as comedy or drama. A tale of divorced parents, their respective partners and their ailing, precocious teen, this occasionally effervescent film has much to enjoy, but just as much that lands with an awkward thud. Opening with 14-ye
‘A Bit of Light’ Review: A Life-Affirming Drama About a Suicidal Iranian Doctor (opens the original)
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Ali Asgari’s Venice competition entry threads a needle between morose humor and gentle naturalism. Although its story unspools on the precipice of the U.S.-Iran war, Ali Asgari’s gentle family drama “A Bit of Light” was filmed in the conflict’s wake, under shellfire in Tehran. The production was eventually forced to relocate to Turkey, where Asgari and his team staged the numerous interior spaces that would serve as points of inflection for the tale of a doctor who has decided, in no uncertain t
‘Our Share of Sand’ Review: A Brooding Indian Social Drama Told Through the Eyes of a Young Girl (opens the original)
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Shalini Adnani’s debut feature turns a diasporic gaze into an autocritique of pervasive structures. A keenly observed class drama shown through the eyes of a child, Shalini Adnani’s “Our Share of Sand” overcomes its characters’ narrow construction through its brooding intensity. Set against a sand-mining crisis in modern India, it tells of a 12-year-old British Asian girl, Maya (Maya Mehta), who returns to the country to join her industrialist father Rohan (Mohammad Zeeshan Ayyub), and bears wit
‘My Undesirable Friends: Part II – Exile’ Review: An Enormous, Riveting Documentary Sequel Following Reporters on the Run (opens the original)
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Julia Loktev continues to wield her iPhone like a personal diary while following journalists targeted by the Kremlin. Following her mammoth five-hour odyssey “My Undesirable Friends: Part I — Last Air in Moscow,” Julia Loktev’s sequel remains just as riveting, if not more so, in its continued depiction of journalists escaping the Russian government. Its predecessor’s endpoint (one Loktev could not have foreseen when she began shooting on her iPhone X) was the February 2022 invasion of Ukraine, a
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