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Superior

2021

Alessandra Mesa, Ani Mesa, Pico Alexander, Jake Hoffman, Stanley Simons

Drama When Marian is on the run, she goes to the only place she knows is safe: her childhood home. She is greeted by her estranged sister, Vivian, a stay-at-home housewife struggling to conceive and on the verge of a failing marriage. Though the two are identical twins, they live opposite lives. Marian’s mysterious return disrupts Vivian’s small-town routine, and the sisters must learn to reconnect and reconcile. When Marian's haunting past ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Orla Smith The Film Stage	"Vassilopoulos’s visually meticulous film, which is styled in a delightfully retro fashion, is a fun but thin entry to Sundance’s U.S. Dramatic Competition. It’s easy to see where the narrative is going"	NEU
United States	Mary Beth McAndrews Film School Rejects	"[It] began as a short film starring the same sisters, and it shows. Vassilopoulos didn’t build and expand enough material to enrich the story (...) [The director] has a very strong aesthetic voice"	NEU
United States	Jessica Kiang Variety	"If 'Superior' feints a familiar, xeroxed plot, it parries into a strikingly individual little pleasure, a headily heightened investigation into identity, sisterhood and the uselessness of men."	POS
United States	Beatrice Loayza The Playlist	"A stylish, droll noir (...) When the story shifts into its final act (...) the script ignores or doesn’t know what to do with the obstacles and intrigue"	NEU
United States	Inkoo Kang The Hollywood Reporter	"'Superior' feels like Diet David Lynch: an unsatisfying substitute"	NEG

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