Movies
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Parallel Tales – first-look review
Featuring an ensemble cast of French heavyweights, Parallel Tales is Iranian auteur Asghar Farhadi’s fifth time selected in competition and…
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Once Upon A Time In Harlem – first-look review
William Greaves shot Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One, probably his best-known film, in Central Park, where he had a rotating cast act out a melodramatic…
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Garance – first-look review | Little White Lies
If you are creatively inclined in any capacity, chances are you have met a struggling actor somewhere along your path. Not…
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La Perra – first-look review
When it comes to dogs in movies, cinema has developed its own series of informal rules with regard to what…
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Clarissa – first-look review | Little White Lies
Clarissa (Sophie Okonedo) seems on edge the morning of her party. She’s frustrated when her maid fetches the wrong plates…
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The Beloved – first-look review
Like its leading male character, The Beloved is a mercurial and frustrating beast. At times, it is an absorbing exploration of…
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The lurid fascination of the school shooter film
Other films instead approach the subject with more ambiguity, even perverse fascination. Films like Gus Van Sant’s Elephant (2003) insinuate near-universal teenage experience…
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Gentle Monster – first-look review
Four years ago, Austrian director Marie Kreutzer went from the high of a Cannes Film Festival full of rave reviews of…
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Tangles – first-look review | Little White Lies
Sarah Leavitt (Abbi Jacobsen) is caught between two worlds. On the west coast of the United States, there’s the life…
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Forever Your Maternal Animal – first-look review
Valentina Maurel’s testing drama about a pair of estranged sister who reunite under difficult circumstances sadly falls back on repetitive…
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