Kleber Mendonça Filho

Film Festival Review: Dispatch From the New York Film Festival, 2025

September 26, 2025
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It’s hard to imagine that Hollywood suits would get behind a movie focused on a corrupt political regime, even one that’s now history.

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New York Film Festival: “Pictures of Ghosts” — Kleber Mendonça Filho’s Phantom Cinema

October 25, 2023
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This thoughtful documentary watches cinemas vanish from a Brazilian city.

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Film Review: “Aquarius” — A Woman of a Certain Age Kicks Ass

October 27, 2016
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How refreshing it is to see a female protagonist whose strength of will and character is not of the superhuman variety.

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