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MIFF 2025 | ‘Once Upon a Time in Gaza’ review: Palestinian crime caper with a comedic bent and a big heart
Entertainment, Film and TV, Review, Melbourne International Film Festival 2025 Nestor Kok 8/18/25 Entertainment, Film and TV, Review, Melbourne International Film Festival 2025 Nestor Kok 8/18/25

MIFF 2025 | ‘Once Upon a Time in Gaza’ review: Palestinian crime caper with a comedic bent and a big heart

The Nasser brothers’ third feature is a tragicomic Rube Goldberg machine of cultural resistance and farcical coincidence.

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MIFF 2025 | ‘Lurker’ review: Alex Russell’s parable against parasocial relationships both fascinates and flounders
Entertainment, Film and TV, Review, Melbourne International Film Festival 2025 Nestor Kok 8/17/25 Entertainment, Film and TV, Review, Melbourne International Film Festival 2025 Nestor Kok 8/17/25

MIFF 2025 | ‘Lurker’ review: Alex Russell’s parable against parasocial relationships both fascinates and flounders

Théodore Pellerin and Archie Madekwe elevate an otherwise serviceable thriller that falls short of the sum total of its paradigmatic influences.

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MIFF 2025 | ‘Dreams’ review: Michel Franco returns with blisteringly nihilistic class critique
Entertainment, Film and TV, Review, Melbourne International Film Festival 2025 Nestor Kok 8/15/25 Entertainment, Film and TV, Review, Melbourne International Film Festival 2025 Nestor Kok 8/15/25

MIFF 2025 | ‘Dreams’ review: Michel Franco returns with blisteringly nihilistic class critique

Jessica Chastain reunites with Mexican cinema’s enfant terrible for a furious and frothing examination of the cross-sections between race, social class, and power.

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