The Herd Review: A Wedding-Day Kidnapping Thriller That Hits Close to Home
★★★½☆
Daniel Etim Effiong's directing debut turns a wedding-day abduction into an uncomfortably real portrait of Nigeria's kidnapping crisis.
Tense and timely, if overstuffed
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★★★½☆
Daniel Etim Effiong's directing debut turns a wedding-day abduction into an uncomfortably real portrait of Nigeria's kidnapping crisis.
Tense and timely, if overstuffed
★★★★½
A single day in 1993 Lagos becomes a devastating portrait of fatherhood, memory, and a nation on edge.
A near-perfect debut
★★★☆☆
Luna Wedler anchors a sincere but overly tidy adaptation of Caroline Wahl's beloved sisters-and-swimming-pools novel.
Earnest, well-acted, a bit too neat.
★★★★½
Mascha Schilinski's Cannes Jury Prize winner braids four generations of girlhood into one haunting, formally daring German epic.
A staggering generational achievement.