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Feb 24, 2025 | 
avclub.com | Katarina Docalovich
Filmmakers looking to make a quick buck might present the genesis of the legendary creative partnership between composer Richard Rodgers and lyricist Oscar Hammerstein II on the 1943 opening night of Oklahoma! on Broadway from the perspectives of the partners themselves in order to chase upbeat feelings of triumph from a glamorous bygone era.
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Feb 24, 2025 | 
yahoo.com | Katarina Docalovich
Filmmakers looking to make a quick buck might present the genesis of the legendary creative partnership between composer Richard Rodgers and lyricist Oscar Hammerstein II on the 1943 opening night of Oklahoma! on Broadway from the perspectives of the partners themselves in order to chase upbeat feelings of triumph from a glamorous bygone era.
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Oct 9, 2024 | 
merrygoroundmagazine.com | Katarina Docalovich
Sean Baker’s return to New York City cinema has been nothing short of triumphant. With ANORA, Baker became the first American director to win the Palme d’Or in Cannes since Terence Malick brought us THE TREE OF LIFE in 2011 (both handed out by American jury presidents, since we are obsessed with ourselves).
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Sep 25, 2024 | 
metacritic.com | Wang Bing |Katarina Docalovich |Rory O'Connor |Josh Slater-Williams
Though Wang never directly addresses the wider forces driving this manic industry––mass consumption, globalization, fast fashion, capitalism––they seem to linger just outside the frame. On the ground level, however, the director isn’t pulling any punches regarding the people responsible for all this struggle and strife. Read More
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Sep 23, 2024 | 
pastemagazine.com | Katarina Docalovich
Continuing his monumental Youth trilogy, following the lives of young migrant laborers in the Yangtze Delta garment region, Chinese documentarian Wang Bing returns to the festival circuit this year with the precisely titled second installment Youth (Hard Times). I wrote about the necessity of the slow, relentless tone of the first installment, Spring, last year, but I will provide a primer here for those previously uninitiated.
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Sep 5, 2024 | 
pastemagazine.com | Katarina Docalovich
During the season one finale of Sex and the City, “Oh Come All Ye Faithful,” Charlotte York makes an appointment with Noanie, a psychic, to discover more about when she will get married, and to whom. The psychic tells Charlotte point blank that she does not see marriage in her future, which does not align with Charlotte’s narrative she’s written for herself in her head. “How can you say that like that? What about my feelings?” Charlotte asks. “Honey, I’m a psychic,” Noanie deadpans.
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Aug 29, 2024 | 
mubi.com | Katarina Docalovich
Notebook is covering the Locarno Film Festival with a series of correspondence pieces written by the participants in the Critics Academy. In our second missive from the Locarno Critics Academy, Leonard Krähmer, Lucía Requejo, and Katarina Docalovich put the filmmakers of the present in conversation with retrospective selections—particularly the films presented in “The Lady with the Torch,” the festival’s 2024 Retrospective surveying the history of Columbia Pictures, curated by Ehsan Khoshbakht.
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Aug 22, 2024 | 
pastemagazine.com | Katarina Docalovich
Although many Hong Sang-soo signatures are present in his newest film—scenes written the morning of; long, inebriated talks over delicious meals; lovely performances from his regular players—By the Stream marks a subtle but striking shift in Sang-soo’s preoccupations and artistry. Jeon-im (Kim Min-hee, a rare, true movie star), an arts professor at a women’s college in Seoul, spends her free moments sketching the patterns of a local stream, to be woven on her loom later.
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Aug 19, 2024 | 
pastemagazine.com | Katarina Docalovich
It’s not every day you get to see a film made by an exiled filmmaker as he tours the world stage, recounting his struggle against violent government censorship. In a tangible sense, Mohammad Rasoulof is one of the bravest filmmakers working today. He first experienced wrongful imprisonment in 2010, when he was arrested and sentenced to a year in prison for filming without a permit.
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Aug 11, 2024 | 
variety.com | Katarina Docalovich |Fareyah Kaukab
After the death of her father, Carrie ( Callie Hernandez), the protagonist of " Invention," finds herself the beneficiary of a patent for an electromagnetic healing device-modeled after one Hernandez's own late father possessed, a flashing cylinder of multicolored tubes emitting odd electrical noises, looking like something straight out of a sci-fi movie.
