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All We Imagine as Light (2024)
There is a soothing liberation in the setting of Mumbai’s sun, allowing love to flourish without judgement, yet the creeping loneliness and social pressures which split two female flatmates in All We Imagine as Light also imbues Payal Kapadia’s drama with a tender, dreamy melancholy.
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The Wild Robot (2024)
By turning a shipwrecked service android into the world’s most unlikely mother, The Wild Robot considers parenthood as a conflict of instinct and adaptation in its delicately animated eco-fable, revealing the communal self-growth that such a journey of profound responsibility can nurture.
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Flow (2024)
The journey that one nameless black cat and its assorted companions set out on through flood waters makes for a minimalist narrative in Flow, yet within Gints Zilbalodis’ immersive, fluid animation, the organic cycles of this ever-changing ecosystem fall into soothing harmony.
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Nickel Boys (2024)
RaMell Ross’ avant-garde instincts come fully formed in the first-person camerawork and impressionistic montages of Nickel Boys, explicitly adopting the perspectives of two friends living in a 1960s reform school, and internalising a shared resilience that leads communities into the fight for civil rights.
