1. Athena (2022) | Rotten Tomatoes
Hours after the tragic death of their youngest brother in unexplained circumstances, three siblings have their lives thrown into chaos.
2. Review: Athena (2022) - 3 Brothers Film
Nov 28, 2022 · It wants to put you in the midst of a siege at a suburban apartment block in Paris and make you helpless to separate your own adrenaline, ...
Romain Gavras’ Athena is an impressive formal achievement, although it never manages to resolve the tensions between its operatic storytelling and its slightly-artificial visual approach.
3. Athena review – brutal violence and bravura action in the Paris banlieues
Sep 2, 2022 · A staggeringly good opening set piece is the high point of Romain Gavras's gritty thriller about police racism.
A staggeringly good opening set piece is the high point of Romain Gavras’s gritty thriller about police racism
4. “Athena,” Reviewed: When Social Thought Becomes Hectic Spectacle
Sep 9, 2022 · “Athena” is a vision of political apocalypse, and it names the enemy while throwing its cinematic hands in the air, along with the camera.
Romain Gavras’s new film is technically stunning but hollow at its apolitical core.
5. Athena (2022) - Alternate Ending
Jan 1, 2023 · Athena is representative of a trend in contemporary French cinema that I like to call banlieue porn, films taking place in Paris' poorer, ...
The controversial French drama is also the most exciting film of 2022 that you have never heard of. Gavin McDowell reviews Athena!
6. 'Athena' Review: Incendiary Thriller Declares War on Injustice - Variety
Sep 2, 2022 12:45pm PT. Critics Pick. 'Athena' Review: Romain Gavras' Tense, Incendiary Thriller Declares War on Injustice. The music-video helmer's third ...
Music-video auteur Romain Gavras' third feature, 'Athena,' is his most impressive project yet, confronting the possibility of an all-out war between Parisians of color and the police.
7. ATHENA (2022) - Mark Reviews Movies
Sep 9, 2022 · ... point. Gavras (whose surname should be familiar to those with a knowledge of international political thrillers, since his father is the ...
8. REVIEW: “Athena” (2022) | - Keith & the Movies
Oct 6, 2022 · The police claim it wasn't their officers in the video. The marginalized, mostly Algerian communities point to other recent cases of police ...
“Athena” opens with a powerful closeup of a man named Abdel. The camera stays firmly locked onto his solemn face as he walks through a police station and outside to an awaiting crowd of reporters. …
9. Athena Reviews - Metacritic
Sep 28, 2022. Athena is shocking, partly because its events seem only about five minutes in our future. One could place its powder keg neighborhood in any ...
After the death of his youngest brother following an alleged police altercation, Abdel (Dali Benssalah) is called back from the frontline to find his family torn apart. Caught between his younger brother Karim's (Sami Slimane) desire for revenge and the criminal dealings of his older brother Moktar (Ouassini Embarek), he struggles to calm the rising tensions. As the situation escalates, their community Athena is transformed into a fortress under siege, becoming a scene of tragedy for both the family and beyond.
10. Review: 'Athena,' a fiery drama of civil unrest, is mostly blowing smoke
Sami Slimane, front, in the movie “Athena.” (Kourtrajmeuf Kourtrajme). By Justin ChangFilm Critic. Sept. 21, 2022 7 AM PT. Share. Share via
Romain Gavras' third feature is a brilliantly choreographed but conceptually too-tidy drama of police violence and political resistance in contemporary France.
11. Athena Movie Review | Common Sense Media
Feb 17, 2023 · At one point the bomb-maker asks for some gas, explosives, and a ... : September 23, 2022; Cast: Dali Benssalah , Sami Slimane , Anthony ...
Intense drama about racism, inequality; violence, language. Read Common Sense Media's Athena review, age rating, and parents guide.
12. Netflix's "Athena" Is A Pulse-Pounding Modern-Day Greek Tragedy [Review]
Sep 19, 2022 · ... point after the heart-pounding opening, because Athena never lets up. ... Athena will be Streaming on Netflix September 23rd, 2022. For ...
Netflix has a new movie from director Romain Gavraz. It's a story that fits very well with the climate of today's society, check out our review of Athena.
13. Venice: Romain Gavras on Creating Immersive Epic 'Athena'
Sep 2, 2022 · September 2, 2022 4:00am. Share on Facebook · Share on X ... You start at point A, and then three kilometers away, you arrive at the estate.
The French director's thrilling — and timely — Netflix feature examines how a single spark can "spread through a country like a detonation."
14. Review: Athena (Romain Gavras, 2022) | by Reece Beckett - Medium
Oct 13, 2022 · Review: Athena (Romain Gavras, 2022) ... The Beatles Most Hated Album Saved Their Career. The record wasn't a low point, it's misunderstood for ...
This new political thriller is revolutionary in form but not in narrative.
15. 'Athena' Ending, Explained: Who Was Responsible For Karim's Death ...
Sep 23, 2022 · In the end, “Athena” is about loss and the lack of hope in the post-modern world. Karim's rebellion army was fighting for visibility and justice ...
In the first ten minutes itself, "Athena" establishes a sense of urgency. The French suburbs went into a state of unrest when a 13-year-old boy lost his
16. Athena (Romain Gavras, 2022) - criterionforum.org
Oct 6, 2022 · Athena is a city state (banlieue) beseiged by an invading army (the police). The action begins in media res as four brothers struggle in ...
flyonthewall2983 wrote: ↑Thu Oct 06, 2022 2:49 pm I don’t want to give too much of it away but it’s maybe one of the best action movies I’ve seen of recent memory. Some of it I could see a mile away but not everything even then is at it seems. Really incredible filmmaking and storytelling all woven within what is an unfortunately very prescient plot.
17. Romain Gavras' Stylized 'Athena' Tackles Modern Tragedy - Variety
Romain Gavras' thriller 'Athena' unfolds in the aftermath of the tragic ... Sep 1, 2022 10:15pm PT. Romain Gavras' Stylized 'Athena' Tackles Modern Tragedy.
Romain Gavras' thriller 'Athena' unfolds in the aftermath of the tragic killing of a young boy.
18. Athena (2022) (3/4): Three brothers in the middle of an intense urban ...
Sep 27, 2022 · As the movie urgently hops from one narrative point to another, we get confused a bit from time to time, but the movie deftly immerses us ...
French film “Athena”, which was released on Netflix in last week, is quite gritty and intense in the presentation of one increasingly chaotic conflict in a slum neighborhood. While it takes some ti…
19. Athena review: Delacroix for the Snapchat age | Sight and Sound - BFI
Sep 3, 2022 · Sami Slimane as Karim amid the chaos in Athena (2022). By John ... Eschewing a shaky handheld camera for a gliding point of view that ...
Romain Gavras’s third fiction feature, replete with disturbingly beautiful tableaux, might be the most exciting political thriller since 2006’s Children of Men.
