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SXSW Review: Mari Walker’s ‘See You Then’ is a truthful, intimate discussion on broken relationships

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SXSW Review: Mari Walker’s ‘See You Then’ is a truthful, intimate discussion on broken relationships

Ryan McQuade March 16, 2021

In our current climate, honesty seems to be lost in the average conversation. Today’s human beings feel as if they bring up any subject, eggshells... Read More

Film Review: ‘Zack Snyder’s Justice League’ is a cut above and one of the best superhero films ever made

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Film Review: ‘Zack Snyder’s Justice League’ is a cut above and one of the best superhero films ever made

Dewey Singleton March 15, 2021

In what can only be described as a stunning turn of events, Zack Snyder’s Justice League is one of the best superhero films ever made.... Read More

Film Review: ‘Long Weekend’ has its weird, quirky heart in the right place

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Film Review: ‘Long Weekend’ has its weird, quirky heart in the right place

Jon Negroni March 12, 2021

Not long into Long Weekend, the film’s buzzed, mild-mannered protagonist, Bart (Finn Wittrock), asks his comparably tipsy new companion, Vienna (Zoë Chao), if she is,... Read More

Film Review: ‘Coming 2 America’ should’ve let Eddie Murphy and Arsenio Hall stay put

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Film Review: ‘Coming 2 America’ should’ve let Eddie Murphy and Arsenio Hall stay put

Jon Negroni March 4, 2021

Around the midway point of Coming 2 America, one of our new central characters, Lavelle (Jermaine Fowler), remarks that the only movies being made today... Read More

Film Review: ‘Chaos Walking’ is a bit more coherent than its title suggests

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Film Review: ‘Chaos Walking’ is a bit more coherent than its title suggests

Jon Negroni March 4, 2021

The YA film has no intention of dying anytime soon. It may have slowed its roll in recent years, but because the publishing industry still... Read More

Berlin Review: Céline Sciamma’s ‘Petite Maman’ starts a tender new chapter in a life cycle of girlhood

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Berlin Review: Céline Sciamma’s ‘Petite Maman’ starts a tender new chapter in a life cycle of girlhood

Sarah Williams March 3, 2021

Céline Sciamma has a tradition with names. Water Lilies‘ Marie, Girlhood‘s Marieme, and Portrait of a Lady on Fire‘s Marianne all share variants of the... Read More

Berlin Review: Things left unsaid makes Hong Sangsoo’s minimal ‘Introduction’ sing

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Berlin Review: Things left unsaid makes Hong Sangsoo’s minimal ‘Introduction’ sing

Hugo Emmerzael March 3, 2021

The Korean auteur Hong Sangsoo shook up last year’s Berlinale competition with the unexpected comedic notes of the otherwise pensive The Woman Who Ran, a... Read More

Berlin Review: Dan Stevens is a perfectly dreamy robot in Maria Schrader’s delightful sci-fi romance of ‘I’m Your Man’

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Berlin Review: Dan Stevens is a perfectly dreamy robot in Maria Schrader’s delightful sci-fi romance of ‘I’m Your Man’

Hugo Emmerzael March 3, 2021

It’s a widely held belief that the earliest composed texts by mankind were of administrative nature. Tablets in Cuneiform scripts as early of approximately 3200... Read More

Film Review: ‘Raya and the Last Dragon’ is a personal, pulse-pounding adventure

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Film Review: ‘Raya and the Last Dragon’ is a personal, pulse-pounding adventure

Nguyên Lê March 1, 2021

Kumandra, the setting of Raya and the Last Dragon, is fictional, but it is also not. It is not on any map, but one can... Read More

Retrospective: Worst Picture/Best Picture – ‘Swept Away’ and ‘Chicago’ (2002)

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Retrospective: Worst Picture/Best Picture – ‘Swept Away’ and ‘Chicago’ (2002)

Jeff Beachnau February 28, 2021

“More than any other example in recent memory, Chicago shows how much the element of surprise is missing from today’s movies.” – Mike Clark, USA... Read More