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Black Tea | 2024 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review
by admin|1 year ago|Ioncinema
Spill the Tea: Sissako Flounders with Tepid Brew The level of ineptitude apparent in every regard of Black Tea, Abderrahmane Sissako’s first narrative feature in a decade, is downright delirious. During its development, the project was known as The Perfumed...
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Sean Penn and Tye Sheridan Endure New York’s Darkest Nights in Trailer for Cannes Title Asphalt City
by admin|1 year ago|The Film Stage
I entered Asphalt City at last year’s EnergaCAMERIMAGE festival with nothing but morbid curiosity. Having engendered some rank responses from its Cannes premiere and not secured any known U.S. distributor, Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire’s film had the right kind of bad-object energy...
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The People Who Never Stopped Loving Tenet
by admin|1 year ago|Roger Ebert
People who love “Tenet” tend to have a story about the first time they saw it, so let’s start with mine. I didn’t catch Christopher Nolan’s 2020 film in theaters — I live in Los Angeles, where there were tight...
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Berlinale 2024 Review: ARCADIA Pushes Marital Drama to Mystical Realities
by admin|1 year ago|Screen Anarchy
Greek director Yorgos Zois, alongside leading actress Angeliki Papoulia, delves into a exploration of love, loss, and ethereal spaces. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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Spaceman
by admin|1 year ago|Roger Ebert
Now, 189 days into his mission, Jakub Prochazka (Adam Sandler), the forlorn cosmonaut protagonist of “Spaceman,” is hurtling toward Jupiter to study the mysterious Chopra cloud. He is nearing his breaking point. Short on sleep in a malfunctioning spacecraft that...
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IO CAPITANO
by admin|1 year ago|Hammer to Nail
(Check out Chris Reed’s Io Capitano movie review. The film is in theaters now. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) Here in the third decade of our 21st century, we face multiple global emergencies, from climate change, armed...
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Drive-Away Dolls
by admin|1 year ago|Roger Ebert
Coming out of “Drive-Away Dolls,” an uproarious, sexy and deliciously feminine B-movie, the immediate thing you might realize is just how dearly this particular Coen Brothers flavor has been missed. You know, that quirky, familiarly zany essence last seen in...
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Drive-Away Dolls Review: Ethan Coen’s Eminently Likable Queer Crime Caper Aims Low and Delivers
by admin|1 year ago|The Film Stage
The kind of movie made to stumble upon surfing cable at 2 am in a half-awake, half-intoxicated stupor, Ethan Coen’s Drive-Away Dolls aims for a lower artistic bar than anything the director (and certainly his brother) has previously approached, which...
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EXHIBITING FORGIVENESS
by admin|1 year ago|Hammer to Nail
(The 2024 Sundance Film Festival ran January 18-28. Check out Melanie Addington’s movie review of Every Little Thing. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) First-time filmmaker but established artist Titus Kaphar showed Exhibiting Forgiveness at Sundance this year. Kaphar also...
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Gloria! | 2024 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review
by admin|1 year ago|Ioncinema
Music of the Heart: Vicario Pays Symphonic Homage to Erased History Composer Margherita Vicario makes her directorial debut with Gloria!, a period piece recuperating a legion of women composers and musicians whose talents were fostered through various Italian orphanages also...
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