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Caught Stealing Review: Darren Aronofsky Blends a Zany Caper with His Customary Brutality
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Hank Thompson (Austin Butler) was born and bred San Francisco Giants baseball. Named after one of the most significant Giants in major league history––back when they were the New York Giants, a clever nod from writer Charlie Huston, who adapted...
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Telluride Review: This is Not a Drill Offers a Sharp Highlight of Climate Activists Who Still Fight
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About an hour into This is Not a Drill, the new documentary from director Oren Jacoby, comes a moment that is stark and unsettling. Sitting next to her daughter, Louisiana climate activist Roishetta Ozane asks what she thinks of the...
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FrightFest 2025 Review: CRUSHED, Faith, Family, And The Unforgivable
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A family's faith and resilience are tested when their daughter is kidnapped, leading to a harrowing journey of discovery and justice. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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Telluride Review: Ballad of a Small Player is a Delicious, Nasty Exuberance
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In Ballad of a Small Player, we are given the gift of Colin Farrell overdoing it. Nobody overdoes it like Colin Farrell, and to take this for granted is a disservice. Written by Rowan Joffé (based on Lawrence Osborne’s 2014...
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Telluride Review: Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere Features Great Performances Inside Stagnant Frames
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The line “you did the best you could” is spoken at a crucial moment in Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere. It’s a platitude often used as a band-aid to cover up all manner of sins. But here, in writer-director-producer Scott...
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Venice Review: Cover-Up Is the Most Important American Documentary of the Year
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Three years after Venice welcomed (and awarded the Golden Lion to) Laura Poitras’s documentary about artist and activist Nan Goldin, All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, another filmic portrait by the Academy Award-winning director graces the Lido. Cover-Up, co-directed by Poitras...
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Moviehouse on the Edge: IFC Center Picks 20 Films to Commemorate 20 Years in New York
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The IFC Center, a five-screen art house cinema in New York’s West Village, is celebrating its 20th anniversary by showing one film from each year of its existence. The selection process was elaborate. The lineup was chosen by Harris Dew,...
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Telluride 2025 Exclusive: LEARNING TO FLY Trailer Debut
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Screening tonight at the 2025 Telluride Film Festival, Learning to Fly is a documentary that follows an amazing journey. We have the exclusive trailer. Produced by Evan Hayes, who won an Academy Award for the awesome documentary Free Solo, alongside...
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‘I Only Rest in the Storm’ Review: Pedro Pinho’s Didactic Portrait of Post-Colonial Relations
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In the film, pedagogy even has to share space with the carnal frisson of the dance floor. The post ‘I Only Rest in the Storm’ Review: Pedro Pinho’s Didactic Portrait of Post-Colonial Relations appeared first on Slant Magazine.
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