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The Hollywood Reporter by Sheri Linden
D’Ambrose’s drama is attuned to how much sensitive kids keep inside, watching and holding their breath while the adults convince themselves they’re not making a mess of things.
The Cathedral
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- United States
- 2022
- · 87m
Director
Ricky D’Ambrose
Cast
Brian d'Arcy James,
Monica Barbaro,
Hudson McGuire,
Henry Glendon Walter V,
Robert Levey II,
William Bednar-Carter,
Mark Zeisler,
Geraldine Singer,
Cynthia Mace,
Madeline Hudelson
Genre
Drama
An only child's meditative, impressionistic account of an American family's rise and fall over two decades.
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90
The New York Times by Manohla Dargis
What distinguishes Jesse’s story is the striking way that the writer-director Ricky D’Ambrose tells it — its ellipses, voice-over, visual precision and an emotional reserve that can feel like clinical detachment but is more rightly described as an aesthetic.
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RogerEbert.com by Sheila O'Malley
The Cathedral marries form to content in a striking way.
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Slant Magazine by Chuck Bowen
The Cathedral is a deeply humanist film, but it’s also a relentlessly bleak exorcism of a family’s intolerances.
75
The Film Stage by Jordan Raup
It’s an ambitious undertaking for an 87-minute film, and while this lofty aim can result in a few passages striking a bit broad, one comes away admiring D’Ambrose’s meticulously committed approach to storytelling.
60
The New Yorker by Richard Brody
With the help of blankly matter-of-fact yet omniscient voice-over narration (spoken by Madeleine James), D’Ambrose achieves the span and the depth of a cinematic bildungsroman in shards of experience and epigrammatic flickers.
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