Snow White, Rewritten in a Minor Key
Despite the film’s efforts to reframe its heroine with modern complexity, a certain emotional distance lingers.

Bimbo finds himself surrounded by a mysterious group of robed figures who invite him to become a member of their secret organisation. When he refuses, they fling him through a nightmarish sequence of terror and torture devices. Will our hapless hero make it out alive?
Despite the film’s efforts to reframe its heroine with modern complexity, a certain emotional distance lingers.
Alongside A Drowning Man, I Signed The Petition, 3 Logical Exits, and A World Not Ours, A Man Returned continues to paint a realistic portrait of the Refugee Crisis that eschews the Western gaze and stereotype. These are real portraits painted by a director with lived experience, cultural connection and an amazing eye for visuals.
Neo Sora left a realistic and yet hopeful notion for the near future and the now.
While this film thinks that it is diagnosing the cause, it is merely diagnosing a symptom instead.
Street Fighter cannot be genuinely recommended, even if it is abundantly clear that much effort was expended.
The film is a powerful narrative encompassing a theme that many people can identify with.