‘100 Days’ Rows Toward the Comfort of Solitude
Carlos Saldanha’s 100 Days turns an extraordinary Atlantic crossing into a portrait of a man who seems less troubled by solitude than by the human world waiting for him ashore.
Guilherme Quireza
Guilherme Quireza is a Brazilian film critic and contributing editor at PopMatters. Writing in English and Portuguese, he focuses on contemporary cinema, film festivals, genre, and the circulation of international cinema across cultural contexts. His criticism is especially interested in how film form organizes social, political, and aesthetic meaning. His work has appeared in PopMatters, Bright Lights Film Journal, In Review Online, High On Films, and other international outlets.
Narcisa’s Will and the Fear of Becoming One’s Mother
Between grief and memory, the recent film Narcisa’s Will finds horror in what we inherit from our parents and how we use that inheritance.
Hirokazu Koreeda’s ‘Sheep in the Box’ Embraces AI Unquestioningly
Hirokazu Koreeda’s unsettling Sheep in the Box confuses love with imitation and embraces AI unquestioningly.
Dolly Parton’s Greatest Movie Role
Dolly Parton’s small but revealing filmography shows that her carefully constructed persona was never an obstacle to acting, but its richest material.
Lana Daher’s ‘Do You Love Me’ Turns Disorientation Into a Closed Circuit
Lana Daher’s documentary Do You Love Me makes Lebanon’s cycles of crisis palpable, but its deliberate disorientation obscures the political distinctions it seeks to recover.
Food Movie ‘Mistura’ Seasons Peruvian Identity Too Lightly
Ricardo de Montreuil’s historical melodrama, Mistura, celebrates Peru’s culinary plurality while sidelining those who sustain it.
‘Renoir’ Faces the Uglier Parts of Grieving
Chie Hayakawa’s deeply personal Renoir is a harsh and intimate portrait of childhood, examining a grief that arrives without clear form or catharsis.
The Terrible Force of Kim Nguyen’s ‘Saigon Story’
Kim Nguyen’s Saigon Story revisits Eddie Adams’ iconic execution photograph and follows the families still living with what the Vietnam War (aka the American War) – and that image – exposed.
‘The Delivery Line’ Gently Returns to You
Nance Ackerman’s The Delivery Line follows five midwives working where birth is surrounded by danger, poverty, displacement, and neglect. The brightness is small, but it is there.
Chile Under Pinochet: A Film Chronology of Dictatorship and Memory
From the 1973 coup to its afterlives in national memory, these films trace violence, silence, resistance, and the ways Chile continues to confront Pinochet’s violent legacy.
‘The Red Hangar’ Warns of Criminal Obedience Amidst Rising Fascism
In The Red Hangar, the first day of Chile’s 1973 coup becomes a tightening moral trap, as an Air Force captain watches military routine turn into open repression.
‘A Yard of Jackals’ and the Sound of Dictatorship
Sound editing is crucial in Chilean horror film A Yard of Jackals; we see nothing (thankfully), yet we can imagine in rich detail everything.