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A Touch of Minx: West Concludes Ersatz ‘Trilogy’ with a Moan It’s an impressive endeavor to unleash three consecutive, thematically related films within the span of five years—especially when there was not an original design suggested (or even supported) by...
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Exclusive Trailer for the 2024 New York Asian Film Festival Delivers Electrifying Thrills
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Now in its 23rd edition, the New York Asian Film Festival has been delivering high-octane thrills, riveting drama, hilarious comedies, and beyond from across Asia and the world for over two decades. This year’s edition is no different, offering highlights...
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New to Streaming: The Boy and the Heron, Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, In a Violent Nature, AGGRO DR1FT & More
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Each week we highlight the noteworthy titles that have recently hit streaming platforms in the United States. Check out this week’s selections below and past round-ups here. AGGRO DR1FT (Harmony Korine) Is it possible to leave your enfance without losing your terrible? The one-and-only...
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Leaving A Mark Behind: Kevin Costner on Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 1
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With “Horizon: An American Saga,” Kevin Costner once again heads west. A sweeping epic of expansion, conflict, and conquest on the American frontier that Costner has spent over 35 years trying to make, “Horizon” could be his magnum opus, provided...
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Green Border
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A searing drama about a European refugee crisis that resonates with similar crises in Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and yes, America’s southwestern border, Agnieszka Holland’s “Green Border” strikes me as the best and most important film to be released...
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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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