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Last Summer
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With her creamy wardrobe of tasteful neutrals and dreamy mansion in the Paris suburbs, Léa Drucker’s Anne has created an impenetrable exterior for herself in “Last Summer.” At least, that’s how it looks from the outside.   But Anne doesn’t know she’s the main character in a Catherine Breillat movie, and so she – and we...
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A Family Affair
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As mundane as its title, with characters whose color-by-numbers personalities and motivations shift randomly to fit a predictable storyline, “A Family Affair” is a low-wattage rom-com. As with last month’s streaming romance “The Idea of You,” this film features a...
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Confessions of a Good Samaritan
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Penny Lane has long been one of our most fascinating documentarians in the modern era: her early works teetered between archival ("Our Nixon") to anthological ("Nuts!") to anthropological ("The Pain Of Others"). You never see her face or hear her voice;...
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A Sacrifice
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The first two-thirds of "A Sacrifice" are a largely leaden affair that offers viewers little that they haven’t seen before. It isn’t even awful so much as it is intensely forgettable—the kind of film whose title eludes you even as...
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The Human Surge 3
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We film lovers perpetually bang the drum about how cinema enables us to experience life from perspectives outside of our own. The medium reveals the world and those who inhabit it with singular precision as it observes who we are...
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Chronicles of a Wandering Saint Review: A Charming, Intelligent Exploration of Spiritual, Ethical, and Religious Contrasts
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Tomás Gómez Bustillo’s charming, intelligent Chronicles of a Wandering Saint is a natural follow-up to the two short films for which he is known: Soy Buenos Aires (a strange, picaresque rags-to-riches tale) and Museum of Fleeting Wonders (a collection of...
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The B-Side – In Conversation with Daniel Waters on Hudson Hawk & More
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Welcome to The B-Side, from The Film Stage. Here we talk about filmmakers! Not the films that made them famous or kept them famous, but the ones that they made in between. Today, as a sort of B-Side to our...
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AIFF Jordan 2024 Preview: Context Is Everything
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The Amman International Film Festival - Awal Film (AIFF) is celebrating its fifth edition this summer, in what is shaping up to be a hot July for the Middle East. Among the more than 30 long films and many short...
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MY OLD ASS Trailer: Aubrey Plaza Tries To Guide Her Younger Self in Megan Park’s Sundance Comedy
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After bringing audiences to tears with her urgent directorial debut The Fallout, writer-director Megan Park delivers a more lighthearted and hilarious look at female adolescence in her comedy My Old Ass. Premiering at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year,...
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CRUMB CATCHER Trailer: A Maniacal Inventor Overstays His Welcome in Cringe Horror Comedy
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Writer-director Chris Skotchdopole puts a new spin on the home invasion thriller in his feature debut, Crumb Catcher. The film centers on a married couple whose newlywed bliss is interrupted when they are held captive in a remote lake house...
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