White Riot is as brisk, to the point and direct as any punk song of the period.

~ Sunil Chauhan -

White Riot is as brisk, to the point and direct as any punk song of the period.

~ Sunil Chauhan -

White Nanny Black Child strikes a reparative chord, but might leave the inquisitive viewer wondering about those at the periphery of the film

~ Sunil Chauhan -

White Nanny Black Child strikes a reparative chord, but might leave the inquisitive viewer wondering about those at the periphery of the film

~ Sunil Chauhan -

Like many of Ferrara’s films, Tommaso starts out with seemingly insignificant details, but stacks them until they mount ominously.

~ Sunil Chauhan -

Like many of Ferrara’s films, Tommaso starts out with seemingly insignificant details, but stacks them until they mount ominously.

~ Sunil Chauhan -

As its wryer, original title Tokyo Bicycle Festival suggests, Aoyagi’s film is never heavy-handed.

~ Sunil Chauhan -

As its wryer, original title Tokyo Bicycle Festival suggests, Aoyagi’s film is never heavy-handed.

~ Sunil Chauhan -

A film about how our identities are shaped and how formative experiences shape our notions of normality.

~ Sunil Chauhan -

A film about how our identities are shaped and how formative experiences shape our notions of normality.

~ Sunil Chauhan -

The brutality of the abuse is never played down or shied away from, but nor is it considered insurmountable.

~ Sunil Chauhan -

The brutality of the abuse is never played down or shied away from, but nor is it considered insurmountable.

~ Sunil Chauhan -

While Subject works as a catch-up with the stars of some of the most captivating docs of the past 10 to 20 years, it also offers plenty of food for thought.

~ Sunil Chauhan -

While Subject works as a catch-up with the stars of some of the most captivating docs of the past 10 to 20 years, it also offers plenty of food for thought.

~ Sunil Chauhan -

It’s when she interviews female members from activist groups and unions who formed relationships with undercover police that Solidarity acquires a deeper heft, its hitherto simmering threads now boiling to the surface.

~ Sunil Chauhan -

It’s when she interviews female members from activist groups and unions who formed relationships with undercover police that Solidarity acquires a deeper heft, its hitherto simmering threads now boiling to the surface.

~ Sunil Chauhan -

You get the sense Masi wants Pepsi to be a pivot for the issues engulfing modern Europe, but in the process he often loses sight of her own story.

~ Sunil Chauhan -

You get the sense Masi wants Pepsi to be a pivot for the issues engulfing modern Europe, but in the process he often loses sight of her own story.

~ Sunil Chauhan -

Push skips along briskly, making light, incisive work of an area that’s all too often mystified, but it feels like a pilot, rather than a self-contained work.

~ Sunil Chauhan -

Push skips along briskly, making light, incisive work of an area that’s all too often mystified, but it feels like a pilot, rather than a self-contained work.

~ Sunil Chauhan -

Lintner is good at gaining access to his fellow residents, though often assumes the viewer has the same understanding of these people as he does, offering what is a surface-level obso-doc on their interactions.

~ Sunil Chauhan -

Lintner is good at gaining access to his fellow residents, though often assumes the viewer has the same understanding of these people as he does, offering what is a surface-level obso-doc on their interactions.

~ Sunil Chauhan -

Rather than an expose of the dark side of live streaming, or focusing on its superstars, Zhu gravitates towards marginalized voices: those in rural areas, the disabled, single mothers.

~ Sunil Chauhan -

Rather than an expose of the dark side of live streaming, or focusing on its superstars, Zhu gravitates towards marginalized voices: those in rural areas, the disabled, single mothers.

~ Sunil Chauhan -

It's never a difficult watch, both because of, and despite its refusal to sit with anything too long.

~ Sunil Chauhan -

It's never a difficult watch, both because of, and despite its refusal to sit with anything too long.

~ Sunil Chauhan -

This is another downward spiralling character piece with the same bruising toughness of its predecessor, but handled with a tauter, darkly playful control.

~ Sunil Chauhan -

This is another downward spiralling character piece with the same bruising toughness of its predecessor, but handled with a tauter, darkly playful control.

~ Sunil Chauhan -

Pollard casts fresh light on the Bureau’s attempts to discredit King as a threat to the American social order as well as the organisation’s inner workings.

~ Sunil Chauhan -

Pollard casts fresh light on the Bureau’s attempts to discredit King as a threat to the American social order as well as the organisation’s inner workings.

~ Sunil Chauhan -

Southern and Lovelace stick to a fashionable, tastefully minimalist aesthetic, but they play it too safe – this is a film that deserves maximalist energy.

~ Sunil Chauhan -

Southern and Lovelace stick to a fashionable, tastefully minimalist aesthetic, but they play it too safe – this is a film that deserves maximalist energy.

~ Sunil Chauhan -

The film is compellingly, playfully wayward, a documentary-leaning piece so sincere you might not entirely believe it to be a fictional construction until the credits roll.

~ Sunil Chauhan -

The film is compellingly, playfully wayward, a documentary-leaning piece so sincere you might not entirely believe it to be a fictional construction until the credits roll.

~ Sunil Chauhan -

Lost Course maintains an observational purity, expertly tracking developments as they happen through a tapestry of views.

~ Sunil Chauhan -

Lost Course maintains an observational purity, expertly tracking developments as they happen through a tapestry of views.

~ Sunil Chauhan -

Often tender, charming and moving

~ Sunil Chauhan -

Often tender, charming and moving

~ Sunil Chauhan -

L’Homme Vertige forces you to lament changing cityscapes and the fate of residents at the mercy of local authorities and property developers

~ Sunil Chauhan -

L’Homme Vertige forces you to lament changing cityscapes and the fate of residents at the mercy of local authorities and property developers

~ Sunil Chauhan -

The Last Blockbuster seems aware that it is exploring a niche interest, taking an irreverent, slightly self-deprecating tone towards its subject.

~ Sunil Chauhan -

The Last Blockbuster seems aware that it is exploring a niche interest, taking an irreverent, slightly self-deprecating tone towards its subject.

~ Sunil Chauhan -

If the aim was to ensure no fixed, easy portrait of Indian women emerges, Liz John is successful.

~ Sunil Chauhan -

If the aim was to ensure no fixed, easy portrait of Indian women emerges, Liz John is successful.

~ Sunil Chauhan -

Invincible Demons is a film that understands the aesthetic appeal of environmental abuse, but it doesn’t titillate with images of eco-collapse or sensationalise interviews with long-suffering Delhi citizens.

~ Sunil Chauhan -

Invincible Demons is a film that understands the aesthetic appeal of environmental abuse, but it doesn’t titillate with images of eco-collapse or sensationalise interviews with long-suffering Delhi citizens.

~ Sunil Chauhan -

Deliberately resisting anything that might appear too straightforward or obvious, this somehow has the effect of making it seem peculiarly uncurious.

~ Sunil Chauhan -

Deliberately resisting anything that might appear too straightforward or obvious, this somehow has the effect of making it seem peculiarly uncurious.

~ Sunil Chauhan -

A timely, moving, frequently beautiful multi-layered portrait.

~ Sunil Chauhan -

A timely, moving, frequently beautiful multi-layered portrait.

~ Sunil Chauhan -

The film ends up becoming tonally unresolved, stuck a little awkwardly between heart-on-sleeve candour, humour and attempts at creating a rollicking, carefree air of cool knowingness.

~ Sunil Chauhan -

The film ends up becoming tonally unresolved, stuck a little awkwardly between heart-on-sleeve candour, humour and attempts at creating a rollicking, carefree air of cool knowingness.

~ Sunil Chauhan -

Grain is a passionate tribute to the camera men and women eschewing digital convenience for film’s time-honoured texture.

~ Sunil Chauhan -

Grain is a passionate tribute to the camera men and women eschewing digital convenience for film’s time-honoured texture.

~ Sunil Chauhan -

Inés Toharia’s documentary will make you consider the restoration process with fresh eyes.

~ Sunil Chauhan -

Inés Toharia’s documentary will make you consider the restoration process with fresh eyes.

~ Sunil Chauhan -

In an overlap of documentary convention and semi-scripted faux-realism that offers a playful, frivolous edge to proceedings, even if the aim of its hybrid make-up isn’t always obvious, we have a defiant rejoinder to narrative and crime-led docs

~ Sunil Chauhan -

In an overlap of documentary convention and semi-scripted faux-realism that offers a playful, frivolous edge to proceedings, even if the aim of its hybrid make-up isn’t always obvious, we have a defiant rejoinder to narrative and crime-led docs

~ Sunil Chauhan -

Vigorously covering all bases, Diop cuts elegantly to give each position ample space.

~ Sunil Chauhan -

Vigorously covering all bases, Diop cuts elegantly to give each position ample space.

~ Sunil Chauhan -

As ever, Soda’s style is patient, unintrusive, and warmly curious.

~ Sunil Chauhan -

As ever, Soda’s style is patient, unintrusive, and warmly curious.

~ Sunil Chauhan -

Lee works the narrative with an ambivalence that borders on the inscrutable

~ Sunil Chauhan -

Lee works the narrative with an ambivalence that borders on the inscrutable

~ Sunil Chauhan -

The Blood of Hussain retains a bracing power nearly 40 years after its release.

~ Sunil Chauhan -

The Blood of Hussain retains a bracing power nearly 40 years after its release.

~ Sunil Chauhan -

Bigger Than Us uses individuals to show how young people across the globe are stepping in - often against powerful opposition - where authorities aren’t.

~ Sunil Chauhan -

Bigger Than Us uses individuals to show how young people across the globe are stepping in - often against powerful opposition - where authorities aren’t.

~ Sunil Chauhan -

As much as Architecton rues humanity’s depletion of our resources, it also marvels at our ability to harness materials for our own ends.

~ Sunil Chauhan -

As much as Architecton rues humanity’s depletion of our resources, it also marvels at our ability to harness materials for our own ends.

~ Sunil Chauhan -

Wang’s affection for his subject matter is clear, but he also seems to delight in inviting the viewer to question what’s relayed.

~ Sunil Chauhan -

Wang’s affection for his subject matter is clear, but he also seems to delight in inviting the viewer to question what’s relayed.

~ Sunil Chauhan -

Not just an intimate excavation of Cambodian history, but a film about the scarred puzzles of family histories, becoming an exploration of how memories are often not passed down from one generation to the next like heirlooms, but locked away, never to be

~ Sunil Chauhan -

Not just an intimate excavation of Cambodian history, but a film about the scarred puzzles of family histories, becoming an exploration of how memories are often not passed down from one generation to the next like heirlooms, but locked away, never to be

~ Sunil Chauhan -

A meditative twilight piece best seen late at night.

~ Sunil Chauhan -

A meditative twilight piece best seen late at night.

~ Sunil Chauhan -

8 Bar makes light work of sketching the conditions that shaped the music, betraying a canny understanding of the music industry’s politics, as well as the changing shape of music sales in the 00s.

~ Sunil Chauhan -

8 Bar makes light work of sketching the conditions that shaped the music, betraying a canny understanding of the music industry’s politics, as well as the changing shape of music sales in the 00s.

~ Sunil Chauhan -