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Queen at Sea review – a harrowing vision of the…
In 2008, you couldn’t move for the column inches proclaiming American filmmaker Lance Hammer to the Next Big Thing on…
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Pulp: What Do You Do for an Encore? review – a…
Nostalgia fuels reunion tours, and Pulp are no exception. But what makes Pulp: What Do You Do for an Encore?…
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The Face of Horror – first-look review
Anna Biller’s films are skin-deep – but how deep the skin is! In perhaps no working director’s films is makeup…
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Misty Green – first-look review
The best audition scene in the history of movies about movies is, of course, the one in Mulholland Drive, in which…
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‘I never thought we’d get a series, let alone…
Those of a certain vintage will likely remember The Raccoons best for ‘Run With Us’, its banger of an end-credits theme that…
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Back to Buenos Aires – first-look review
As a man returns from the brink of death in one big gasp of air, Mariano (Adriano Giannini) calmly welcomes him…
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A Bit of Light – first-look review
Like many who came before him, Arash (Missagh Zareh), a once-reputable physician, bears the psychological scars of trauma inflicted by Iran’s…
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Girlhood in Post-9/11 Cinema: Margaret at 15
Lisa’s sexual after school activities may seem separate from Monica’s death, but they are inextricably linked. The former are brief,…
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Naza – first-look review | Little White Lies
For 75 of the 80 minutes of Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor’s NAZA, we are in the dark. Only literally, for the…
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The Color of the Sun – first-look review
There’s no disputing that Xavier Tera’s feature debut is a good looking film; the photographer-turned-filmmaker captures the Japanese peninsula of Okinawa…
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