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IF I HAD LEGS I’D KICK YOU Review: Rose Byrne Heads to a Point of No Return
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In writer-director Mary Bronstein’s (Yeast) first film in almost two decades, If I Had Legs I’d Kick You, a panic attack-inducing, motherhood-centered comedy-drama, the partial collapse of a ceiling and the tidal floodwater it releases into the apartment below leaves Linda...
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The Hyperboreans | Review
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From the Land of Ice and Snow: Cocina & Leon Pursue Hermetical Cinematic Spell To say the latest feature from the experimentally inclined Chilean directing duo Cristóbal León and Joaquín Cociña is unclassifiable would be something of an understatement, delving...
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Tim Robinson Sits in a World of Paranoid Conspiracies in HBO’s “The Chair Company”
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It’s a show that alternately plays like a mystery and a study of a man going insane. It might be both.
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ORWELL: 2+2=5 Review: The Prophecy of an Educated Imagination
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In our current world, too many countries are ruled by governments of various authoritarian types, not at least from a military and economic perspective, the most powerful country. Many have been calling writers such as Octavia Butler, Margaret Atwood, and...
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The Awards Prospects For “Marty Supreme” – Will Timothée Chalamet Win Best Actor For Josh Safdie’s Latest?
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It’s fair to be skeptical of festival hype. Every year, films generate an unprecedented level of excitement from audiences eager to see them, but only a select few actually meet those expectations. The latest to spark that kind of buzz...
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NYFF Review: In Stiller & Meara: Nothing is Lost, Ben Stiller Interrogates His Parents’ Life and Careers
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About halfway through his sentimental and ruminative documentary Stiller & Meara: Nothing is Lost, director Ben Stiller reveals that his parents––actors Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara––spent the majority of their life together sleeping in separate but adjoining bedrooms. It’s a small,...
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Ronan Day-Lewis on Bringing Daniel Day-Lewis Back to Cinema with Anemone
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One October after Lebron and Bronny James made history as the first father-son duo to play on the same NBA team, Daniel Day-Lewis has come out of retirement to star in his son’s debut feature, Anemone. Since graduating with a...
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Interview: Carolina Cavalli – The Kidnapping of Arabella
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Using the road-movie narrative template to explore an unconventional form of companionship, The Kidnapping of Arabella is far from a typical coming-of-age film — in fact, it might be better described as a “coming out-of-age” journey. One of your first...
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Father Mother Sister Brother Trailer: Jim Jarmusch’s Golden Lion Winner Arrives This Christmas
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Premiering at the Venice Film Festival where it picked up the well-deserved Golden Lion, Jim Jarmusch’s Father Mother Sister Brother is one of the loveliest, most delicately woven films of the year. Returning to the episodic structure of Night on...
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Netflix’s “Boots” is a Trite Coming-of-Age Tale with a Hollow Corps
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In trying to play both sides, “Boots” falls flat tonally.
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