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Eight independent films that have defined the 2020s – from EO to Urchin

In a decade of upheaval, indie film-makers are producing work that speaks to our fracture

The Guardian - UK · Feb 5

Good Boy review – Stephen Graham and Andrea Riseborough turn nasty in Kubrickian absurdist nightmare

London film festival: Jan Komasa’s bracingly wicked tale follows a couple who plan to retrain an delinquent teen with a brutal regimen

The Guardian - UK · Oct 9, 2025

Wondrous donkey adventure EO decentres the human perspective in pursuit of a new way of seeing

You may not know Jerzy Skolimowski — he's an octogenarian Polish filmmaker — but his latest film EO is visionary and it has a rather unlikely star.

ABC News · Apr 8, 2023

An 84-year-old filmmaker looks into a donkey's soul in ‘EO’

Polish filmmaker Jerzy Skolimowski's new film “EO” has a main character who doesn't speak a word of dialogue

The Independent UK · Dec 14, 2022

The Top 10 best movies of 2022 (plus a few of the worst)

Tom Cruise wins the award for multiplex superhero of 2022. One of the few old-school movie stars left standing, he pushed back on the salvage-yard business strategy suggesting “Top Gun: Maverick,” in limbo amid a series of pandemic release delays, ought to settle for Paramount’s streaming service. That would’ve been…

Chicago Tribune · Dec 14, 2022

Review: ‘EO’ is a donkey’s tale, clear-eyed and moving

A prime year for cinematic donkeys: That’s one way to remember 2022.

Chicago Tribune · Dec 9, 2022

Nice ass: Jerzy Skolimowski on his donkey film that wowed Cannes

The veteran Polish film-maker’s latest movie stars a donkey – and is up for an Oscar. He talks about how he became a donkey whisperer to get the best performance, his career as a painter and playing a villain in The Avengers

The Guardian - UK · Dec 8, 2022

Movie review: 'EO,' a gorgeous portrait of a donkey, is the film you've been braying for

In one of the most astonishing sequences in "EO," a rapturous hymn to the natural world from 84-year-old Polish director Jerzy Skolimowski, a wandering donkey gets lost in a forest primeval. Night has fallen, but pools of moonlight illuminate this hushed, dark world in all its living glory. A little…

Los Angeles Times · Dec 5, 2022

Triangle of Sadness among leaders of European film award nominations

Ruben Östlund’s Palme d’Or winning satire is up for four awards, while Penélope Cruz and Paul Mescal feature in acting categories

The Guardian - UK · Nov 8, 2022

‘Triangle of Sadness’ Wins Palme d’Or at Cannes Film Fest

Swedish director Ruben Ostlund’s class warfare comedy “Triangle of Sadness” won the Palme d’Or at the 75th Cannes Film Festival on Saturday, giving Ostlund one of cinema’s most prestigious prizes for the second time. Ostlund, whose art-world send-up “The Square” took the Palme in 2017, pulled off the rare feat…

Asharq Al-Awsat · May 29, 2022