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Catch the Fair One

2021

Josef Kubota Wladyka

Kali Reis, Kevin Dunn, Lisa Emery, Kimberly Norris Guerrero ...

5.6

514

Thriller A former champion boxer embarks on the fight of her life when she goes in search of her missing sister.

	Media	Author	Review
		David Ehrlich IndieWire	"There isn’t much for 'Catch the Fair One' to find at the end of the line, but it looks for its invisible women — indigenous and otherwise — with the urgency of someone who knows what seeing them would actually mean."
		Peter Debruge Variety	"'Catch the Fair One' is activist filmmaking at its most compelling (...) It’s effective, but also upsetting — as violence should be."
		Wendy Ide Screendaily	"Much of 'Catch The Fair One's lean authenticity comes from the film’s star [Kali Reis] (...) It’s a propulsive watch but (...) finds more dead-ends than answers"
		Robert Daniels The Playlist	"Wladyka has assuredly provided a distinct vision that pulses to potent degrees. 'Catch the Fair One,' a textured story (...) [that] wins in a knockout"
		Mae Abdulbaki Screen Rant	"[It] packs an emotional and physical punch and doesn't hold back. Poignant and raw, the film is effective in all the ways it should be (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 5)"
		Peter Gray The AU Review	"This is a vigilante account of grounded realism that revels in having the strength to be miserable (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"
		Ronda Racha Penrice The Wrap	"Kali Reis' lead performance brings power and empathy to a stark and often dire tale (...) A biracial filmmaker of Japanese and Polish descent, Wladyka consistently uses his lens in service to humanity"
		Michael Frank The Film Stage	"Wladyka’s film is always gripping, always searching, and always testing the boundaries of its protagonist and its audience."
		Leslie Felperin The Guardian	"Unsettling tale pulls no punches (...) Wladyka has a knack for filming crime stories, especially where they overlap with tales of exploitation and the dispossessed underclass (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"
		Lovia Gyarkye The Hollywood Reporter	"A thrilling lead trapped in a thin story (...) By the time Kaylee's odyssey ends, we're left with abandoned threads of many good stories instead of one that satisfyingly coheres"
		Keith Watson Slant	"If one might forgive a bit of hypocrisy in the service of a rip-snorting action spectacle, the solemnity of the film is at odds with the gratuitousness of its violence (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"
		Sheila O'Malley rogerebert.com	"'Catch the Fair One' is a revenge-thriller, and a satisfying one, since the evil on display is so total (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"
		Katie Rife AV Club	"The story barrels forward with an unstoppable, stomach-churning momentum (...) There's a political undercurrent to the story, as well as an emotional one, that give 'Catch The Fair One' uncommon resonance"
		Aparita Bhandari Paste Magazine	"Blistering thriller 'Catch the Fair One' shines a light on missing and murdered indigenous women (...) Either way it's an uncomfortable film. And that's the point"

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