Autor: Júlia Figueiredo

In this intimate and quiet drama, a family’s isolation in a desolate corner of the world turns what should be a home into a disguised prison. “The Sandle Castle” outlines the melancholic drift of a childhood set adrift, where everyday symbols take on existential weight. With visual lyricism, symbolic depth, and a narrative that avoids easy answers, Matty Brown unveils the emotional collapse in places where no promise holds or can be reclaimed.

Instead of giving in to spectacle, the film opts for restraint: it meticulously and sensitively reconstructs the quiet journey of three scientists who, working on the margins of institutions and under moral attack, challenged ethical and biological boundaries in the name of an uncertain future. The narrative avoids easy glorification and finds depth in the fragile, solitary, and stubborn nature of science — also revealing the personal cost of each hard-won breakthrough.

Teen romance in cinema often walks a fine line between idealized fantasy and the attempt to capture the complexity of modern relationships. “Naadaniyaan” opts for the latter, seeking authenticity without abandoning the conventions of the genre. With a narrative built on subtle interactions and youthful dilemmas, the film strives to balance lightness and depth, but its limited execution keeps it firmly within the safe zone of familiarity.

Between posthumous impositions and promises made under the weight of loss, a young woman must reorganize her life by completing tasks left by her mother in videos recorded before her death. What begins as a grief-driven obligation soon turns into a journey filled with conflicts, rediscoveries, and unpredictable affections, where each step reveals how unsettling love can be — especially when change isn’t a choice, but a legacy.

Amid the icy, hypnotic landscapes of Bariloche, a determined reporter engages in a psychological game with a man accused of heinous crimes. “Caught” dismantles any expectation of linearity by diving into murky moral zones where victims and perpetrators blur. Adapted from a work by Harlan Coben, the miniseries challenges viewers to embrace doubt as the only certainty.

Amid calculated eccentricities and polished glass façades, a group of bored millionaires gathers on a Greek island for a seemingly harmless detective game that soon exposes betrayals, secrets, and the moral collapse of its guests. At the heart of this theater of appearances, Benoît Blanc returns, sharper than ever, to untangle a web of glittering lies. “Glass Onion” provokes, entertains, and challenges the viewer to decipher what shines — and what rots.

Set against the idyllic backdrop of Provence, “Delicious” ruthlessly dismantles the invisible pacts that uphold bourgeois comfort. In her directorial debut, Nele Mueller-Stöfen delivers a thriller that rejects moral binaries and delves into inescapable social tensions, where hospitality blurs into fear and the silence of a foreign housemaid shatters the fragile illusion of familial harmony — all under a steadily intensifying unease, with no relief or easy answers.

Inspired by Shakespeare’s historical plays, “The King” rejects the luster of conventional epics to craft a somber portrait of power, youth, and identity. With David Michôd’s precise direction and a restrained, unsettling performance by Timothée Chalamet, the film turns silence into tension and transforms doubt into narrative drive. It’s Shakespeare rendered in flesh, mud, and hesitation — and a meditation on the solitude of ruling before understanding oneself.

Amid the inner collapse of two lives scarred by disillusionment, a writing retreat in Morocco becomes the unlikely stage for a connection that defies labels and conventions. “Lonely Hearts” explores, with intelligence and subtlety, the contradictions of affection in an age of emotional exhaustion, confronting love not as salvation, but as a possibility amid ruins — a quiet act of courage in a world increasingly resistant to intimacy.

In an effort to expand its universe of antagonists, Sony turns to one of the wildest and most enigmatic characters in comic book lore with a film that blends graphic violence, family trauma, and brutal settings. “Kraven the Hunter” attempts to turn an instinct-driven villain into a lead figure, relying on physical strength and restrained fury as dramatic engines. However, amid uneven effects, excessive brutality, and a persistent emotional void.