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Reviews of A Common Crime, Rose: A Love Story, Final Days, Wilderness, Songs My Brother Taught Me and Assimilate
OUTSTANDING: Songs my Brothers Taught Me

A Common Crime (12)
Directed by Francisco Marquez
★★★

A SOCIOLOGY teacher is seemingly haunted by the ghost of her maid’s murdered son in this intelligent political thriller masquerading as a supernatural tale.

Writer-director Francisco Marquez’s slow-burning film provides a subtle critique of Argentina’s social classes and the widening distance between rich and poor, and the way the latter are treated as lazy, ignorant, criminal and disposable by Argentinian society and authorities.

Rose: A Love Story (15)
Directed by Jennifer Sheridan
★★★★

Final Days (15)
Directed by Johnny Martin
★★

Wilderness (15)
Directed by Justin Doherty
★★★

Songs My Brothers Taught Me
Directed by Chloe Zhao
★★★★

Assimilate (15)
Directed by John Murlowski

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