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PSYCHONAUT Has a Poster, A Trailer, And A World Première At The Brooklyn Horror Festival
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Seven years ago, Dutch filmmaker Thijs Meuwese co-directed the science fiction film Molly a film overflowing with ingenuity, a no-budget post-apocalyptic superhero epic. You can read my review here... That film had an incredibly impressive finale, and it marked its...
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Busan 2024 Review: THE FINAL SEMESTER, Youth Enters the Workforce in Empathetic Korean Indie
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Four years after her layered character study A Leave, director Lee Ran-hee returns to the Busan International Film Festival with her sophomore film The Final Semester, a film that also examines the professional struggles of the trade-bound working class. While...
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Busan 2024 Review: THE LAND OF MORNING CALM, Grim Coastal Drama Offers Satisfying Character Portrait
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Following his intriguing debut The Girl on a Bulldozer, which screened at the Busan International Film Festival in 2021, directed Park Ki-woong returns to the festival with the New Currents competition title The Land of Morning Calm. Set far away...
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‘Hard Truths’ Review: Mike Leigh’s Compassionate Portrait of a Woman on the Brink
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The film finds Marianne Jean-Baptiste channeling an anger that feels excruciatingly real. The post ‘Hard Truths’ Review: Mike Leigh’s Compassionate Portrait of a Woman on the Brink appeared first on Slant Magazine.
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‘Emilia Pérez’ Review: Jacques Audiard’s Melo-Noir Musical Makes It Up As It Goes Along
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Just as its style is enervating, Emilia Pérez settles for mundane portraiture. The post ‘Emilia Pérez’ Review: Jacques Audiard’s Melo-Noir Musical Makes It Up As It Goes Along appeared first on Slant Magazine.
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‘The Shrouds’ Review: David Cronenberg’s Disquieting Story of Grief and Disillusionment
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Grief may be its starting point, but the film has much more on its mind than that. The post ‘The Shrouds’ Review: David Cronenberg’s Disquieting Story of Grief and Disillusionment appeared first on Slant Magazine.
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Busan 2024 Review: KIKE WILL HIT A HOME RUN, and So Does This Kaurismaki-esque Korean Indie Delight
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Possibly the highlight among the new Korean Indies on show at the Busan International Film Festival this year (though this critic hasn't quite seen everything yet), Kike Will Hit a Home Run is a quirky, charming and assured follow-up from...
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Poetic Justice: Blake Draper Unbottled in Patrick Wang’s ‘A. Rimbaud’
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American micro-indie filmmaker Patrick Wang of 2011’s In the Family (read review), The Grief of Others (2015), A Bread Factory (2018) parts I and II, was working under the radar and his latest project – Variety have the full details...
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TERRIFIER 3 Banned to Minors Under 18 in France
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If you're under the age of 18 in France and you were itching to see Terrifier 3 in the cinemateques, looks like you're shit outta luck.   The Classification Committee over in France has recommended a ban on the film...
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HAPPINESS 4K Review: Todd Solondz’ Confrontational Black Comedy Gets a Gorgeous Upgrade
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The Criterion Collection plays hero once again with their recent 4K UHD release of Todd Solondz’s 1998 sophomore feature, Happiness. The film had long languished on a pitiful non-anamorphic window-boxed DVD from Lionsgate and fans have been clamoring for an...
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