“‘Riddle of Fire’ Is a Joy to Solve”

“Life for today’s young’uns is frankly terrifying, even if they aren’t literally living inside a horror film, with overarching threats to their future dotted by day-to-day micro-threats. In its unassuming way as real-world fantasy, Weston Razooli’s Riddle of Fire is sensitive to these plights, and casually rejects didactic allegory about them. This, Razooli suggests, is simply a film about childhood’s rigors. Coming of age is a hero’s quest no matter how terrible its sociopolitical context may be.” (Full review at Paste Magazine.)

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