About

The Self-Reproaching Critic is a space for hesitation disguised as criticism — an archive of films that linger, unsettle, or resist summary. Each piece begins in analysis and ends in doubt, tracing how images stay lodged in thought long after their closing frames. The project grew out of festival coverage but became something slower: a record of uncertainty as a method.

It is written and edited by Edin Čusto, a Bosnian film critic and writer whose work appears in Eye for Film, DMovies, Filmofil.ba, and other outlets. A participant in the Warsaw Critics Project and member of the Young FIPRESCI Jury (2025), he covers European and global festivals with a particular interest in the borders between narrative and essay, cinema and criticism.

He writes in English and Bosnian, often between the two.

Here, reviews end not with stars but with dots: a self-reproaching punctuation. One ends the thought; five refuse to. The Ambivalent Ellipsis Scale measures not approval but aftertaste, the distance between conviction and doubt.

For commissions, festival inquiries, or pitches: editor@src.ba