The general view this year in Russia is that there are no good films. But Russian film critic Larisa Malykova does not agree. “That’s what people say when they don’t go to movie theaters and don’t know about new films. And then good films often have problems with distribution, so people can’t see them. The year 2023 followed the very difficult year when European and American film companies left Russia,” she told The Moscow Times. “But filmmaking is a long process, and today we are seeing films that were started about two years ago. So I can’t say anything about global changes yet.”