{"id":190068,"date":"2024-01-12T09:10:39","date_gmt":"2024-01-12T14:10:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=190068"},"modified":"2024-01-12T09:10:39","modified_gmt":"2024-01-12T14:10:39","slug":"review-the-settlers-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=190068","title":{"rendered":"Review: <i>The Settlers<\/i> (2024)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/The_Settlers-935602050-large-e1705064799658.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"643\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-190069\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/The_Settlers-935602050-large-e1705064799658.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/The_Settlers-935602050-large-e1705064799658-140x200.jpg 140w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/The_Settlers-935602050-large-e1705064799658-280x400.jpg 280w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/The_Settlers-935602050-large-e1705064799658-70x100.jpg 70w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nOne of the perks of having a gig like the Ebert gig is getting to see all these directorial debuts from unknowns, or relative unknowns. Sometimes debuts show the inexperience of the director, and sometimes debuts just &#8230; are not that good. But sometimes a debut is dazzlingly accomplished. Last year was full of amazing directorial debuts. (<em>All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt, Blue Jean, Reality, The Unknown Country, Scrapper, Fair Play, Emily, A Thousand and One, American Fiction<\/em>. I mean, I could probably go on.) These directors are young. We have more to look forward to. <\/p>\n<p><i>The Settlers<\/i> is Felipe G\u00e1lvez Haberle&#8217;s directorial debut and it&#8217;s extremely impressive. A tough watch. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rogerebert.com\/reviews\/the-settlers-movie-review-2024\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">I reviewed for Ebert<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the perks of having a gig like the Ebert gig is getting to see all these directorial debuts from unknowns, or relative unknowns. Sometimes debuts show the inexperience of the director, and sometimes debuts just &#8230; are not &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=190068\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[2529,2558,2668],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190068"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=190068"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":190073,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190068\/revisions\/190073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=190068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=190068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=190068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}