[W David Lichty]

I just saw Flow, and after it, immediately watched Gints Zilbalodis’s first feature, Away, which is a thematic and structural dry run for Flow, in a way that’s interesting. I was playing it for my father, intending to work in the background, but I couldn’t take my eyes off it. It’s serene, but matters. It has nowhere near the level of drama implied in the trailer, and that’s a positive. The image rendering is not at 2024 levels, yet it remains visually sumptuous.