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Adrift
Tessa Maria Guazon The final scene in Eduardo Roy, Jr.’s Fuccbois (2019) perturbingly captured ill-fated Mico Reyes (Kokoy de Santos) and Ace Policarpio (Royce Cabrera) in a thicket; faces bloodied...
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Echo Chamber of Horrors
Jaime Oscar M. Salazar Screencap from John Denver Trending (2019) screener. In late 2017, a 15-year-old boy in Bago City, Negros Occidental died by suicide. His mother, a farmer, sought aid from an...
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School of Life
Skilty Labastilla A Is for Agustin, the debut feature of Grace Simbulan, follows Agustin Amado, an Aeta man in his early 40s whose hollow cheeks and sun-drenched, wrinkled skin provide quite a...
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Shades of Youth: A Review of Cleaners
Tito Quiling, Jr. Hearing the soft scratches of the eraser gliding over the chalkboard, wooden chairs scraping against the concrete floor polished by years with a bunót (coconut husk), leather and...
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The Body of Justice
Patrick Flores The dogged and peripatetic camera of Raymundo Ribay Gutierrez signifies, anticipates, and sustains a pursuit. It is a pursuit of a locale: dense, thicket-like, nearly a mangrove of...
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Aftercare
Christian Jil R. Benitez At the heart of existent populism is its plain irreverence to the body, especially of those who are excluded from what is commonly projected as “ordinary.” As such,...
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Hinggil sa Realidad ng Pagiging Fangirl
Andrea Anne I. Trinidad Hayagang iginigiit ng pelikulang Fangirl (Antoinette Jadaone, 2020) na isinasagawa nito ang pagsisiwalat ng kasalukuyang realidad ng bansa partikular na ang kalagayan ng mga...
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The Young Critics Circle Podcast Ep. 1 – Hinggil sa Paghanga
Stills mula sa trailer ng Fan Girl (2020) (kaliwa) at The Boy Foretold by the Stars (2020) (kanan). Sa online edition ng Metro Manila Film Festival noong nakaraang Disyembre, parehong naging...
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“Kintsugi,” “Death of Nintendo” lead YCC Nominations for 2020
Still from Death of Nintendo screener. Kintsugi, Lawrence Fajardo’s drama about a Kapampangan ceramicist working in Japan that screened in the online edition of Pista ng Pelikulang Pilipino; and Raya...
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YCC Film Desk Holds Online Edition of 30th Annual Circle Citations
Poster image from Thop Nazareno’s Edward (2019) The Young Critics Circle Film Desk invites everyone to its 30th Annual Circle Citations for Distinguished Achievement in Film for 2019. The ceremony,...
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The 30th Annual Circle Citations for Distinguished Achievement in Film for 2019
The Young Critics Circle Film Desk holds the 30th Annual Circle Citations for Distinguished Achievement in Film for 2019. 10 films vied for citations in each of the seven categories: Best First...
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The Young Critics Circle Podcast Ep. 2 – Hinggil sa mga Nominado
Stills mula sa trailer ng He Who is Without Sin (2020) (kaliwa) at Death of Nintendo (2020) (kanan). Bilang paghahanda sa napipintong anunsiyo ng taunang pagkilala sa kahusayan sa pelikula,...
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‘Death of Nintendo,’ ‘Kintsugi’ in historic tie for YCC best film of 2020
Stills from Death of Nintendo (2020) and Kintsugi (2020) screeners. Raya Martin’s Death of Nintendo, a fresh coming of age film set in post-EDSA; and Lawrence Fajarado’s Kintsugi, a finely controlled...
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Unkind Cut
Jaime Oscar M. Salazar Still from A Thousand Cuts screener. A Thousand Cuts (2020), directed by Ramona S. Diaz, depicts the harrowing ordeals that representatives of the news organization Rappler are...
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Hindi Nagwawakas sa Tugatog
Jema M. Pamintuan Still mula sa trailer ng The Highest Peak (2020). Sa pelikulang The Highest Peak (2020) ni Arbi Barbarona, pinagtagpo ang naratibo at mithiin ng dalawang pangunahing tauhan nito: ang...
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In Search of Safe Houses
Tito R. Quiling, Jr. Still from Midnight in a Perfect World (2020) trailer. In most societies, the precarious fabric of social structures is kept fitted by addressing questions and finding solutions...
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Burden of Beast
Cristian Tablazon Still from Lahi, Hayop (2020) trailer. Lahi, Hayop (2020) unfolds with much promise for the first half or so, threshing out a chamber piece among three men who take leave from their...
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To stare the beast in the eye
Emerald Flaviano Manlapaz Still from Aswang (2020) trailer. This year marks the fifth after President Rodrigo Duterte was elected into office and the start of his bloody war on drugs, and after the...
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Level Up
Aristotle J. Atienza Still mula sa trailer ng Magikland (2020). Pansinin ang bata sa sine. Kung hahalungkatin pa ang kasaysayan ng pelikulang Filipino, lilitaw na ang mahaba-haba na ring panahon ng...
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Constellating Romance
Christian Jil Benitez Still from The Boy Foretold by the Stars (2020) trailer. Dolly Dulu’s The Boy Foretold by the Stars (2020) serendipitously arrived at the time when the boys love (BL) phenomenon...
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