Movies
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15/18 (A Place to Heal) – first-look review
It might unfold primarily in a psychiatric unit, but make no bones about it: 15/18 is a high school movie. Cédric Kahn’s verité-style…
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Too Much Sugar – first-look review
The small city of Moberly, Missouri has just under 14,000 residents, but only one of them is Ryan J. Hollinger,…
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Everest: The Other Side – first-look review
Accomplished filmmaking duo Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin hit the big time in 2018 when Free Solo became the…
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Wild Horse Nine – first-look review
Even when it looks like Irish writer/director Martin McDonagh has one foot deeply set in his comfort zone – the…
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Bucking Fastard – first-look review
Werner Herzog has made a career out of chronicling the rich inner lives of society’s misfits and outcasts, so it’s easy…
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Burgundy – first-look review | Little White Lies
They say in vino veritas, and the bitter truth at the heart of Michael Dweck and Gregory Kershaw’s Burgundy is that even vignerons…
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Sarah Maldoror’s Poetry of Resistance
Last month, I saw an archive film collection titled The Archive Reimagined: Pan-African Histories and the Moving Image at the Barbican for…
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My Notes on Mars – first-look review
The opening scene of Lili Horvát’s My Notes on Mars evokes that of Sandra Wollner’s The Trouble of Being Born: the contrast of…
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Ink – first-look review | Little White Lies
The crowning achievement of Oliver Stone’s still somewhat overlooked biopic of Hustler magazine founder The People Vs. Larry Flynt is its tight grasp on the…
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Sleeping with the Enemy: The Handmaiden at 10
Kouzuki is not the only one. Count Fujiwara is in fact a Korean conman, and the ease with which he passes…
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