If I Go Will They Miss Me

Such a beautiful and empathetic portrait of parenthood. Was brought to tears a few times. Really felt there was a depth to both the mother and father which filmmaker Walter Thompson-Fernandez elegantly explores without losing their complexity. J. Alphonse Nicholson and…

Brother Bro

One of the more lyrical films I’ve seen at the festival that would make Barry Jenkins proud, IF I GO WILL THEY MISS ME is a poetic story of a young boy searching for connection with a father desperate to protect what he loves. Set under the shadow of passing planes in…

Matt Neglia

special movie. might be the best of the year. everyone should watch it

loupre

An adaptation of his same-titled short, the lyrical narrative is defined by a bracing sense of wonder and an evocatively delivered humanism that, initially, is an ode to Charles Burnett’s thoughtful social realist dramas.  During the film’s soaring opening montage, Lil Ant…

Robert Daniels

Gorgeous, empathetic filmmaking. You can feel nods to Barry Jenkins, Charles Burnett, and even Raven Jackson, but writer-director Walter Thompson-Hernández takes his film someplace completely new. I love it when a filmmaker’s references are clear, but they do something new.…

Marya E. Gates

حياة باسلوب سرد بصري شاعري ‎حبيت تركيزه على الوالدين ومشاكلهم ومعاملتهم كبشر يخطؤون ويوصلون لحدودهم واعترافهم بانهم مش اشخاص كاملين امام ابنائهم وايضا تغيرهم مع الوقت ومعرفه سبب بعده عن عائلته رغم انه كان يرسلهم ويتمنى ان يكون اقرب لهم حبيت شخصية الولد كان قاعد يبحث اتصال…

Aseel | أصيل

If any aspiring filmmakers we’re wonder how to make someone ugly cry and break their heart in the most beautiful way possible this is exactly how you do it

Gambinosburner

Pure visual storytelling. And part of that burgeoning school that’s neither neo-realist nor magical-realist, but passionate-realist — insisting on finding wonder in places where others see only poverty and despair. (See also Sean Baker’s “The Florida Project” and RaMell…

Amy Nicholson

Incredibly privileged to have seen this a third time before general release. A movie I constantly have found myself thinking about since Sundance earlier this year and truly, one of those movies I think will change people's lives if they see it.

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