Screen Anarchy

CLEARMIND Review: Taking an Axe to Therapy
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Nora (Rebecca Creskoff) is going through a rough patch. Still reeling from the loss of her young daughter and the breakup of her marriage, she’s trying out a new form of therapy to cope. Said therapy involves the annual tradition...
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INSHALLAH A BOY Review: A Situation To Crack Under
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Last year, the Cannes Film Festival crowds screened its first ever Jordanian film, and simultaneously, the debut of director Amjad Al Rasheed. Inshallah A Boy is about the hypocrisy of vultures in times of grief, the societal constraints of a...
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DRIVING MADELEINE (Une belle course) Review: A Life Less Ordinary
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Despite the somewhat misleading English title (the original name can be roughly translated as “a lovely ride”), Driving Madeleine by a French director Christian Carion, is not exactly what it seems and has some surprises stored. Carion, who is mostly...
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Friday One Sheet: BUSHMAN 1971
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In the twilight of the 1960s, America was frothing with political unrests, assassinations, and racial tension. David Schickele's hangin' out movie cum documentary slash film essay from 1971, Bushman, gets a 4K restoration, and a handsome, grainy black and white poster....
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THE BEEKEEPER Review: BEE-lieve The Buzz, Statham Stings In This Rip-Roaring Actioner
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When a kindly old woman loses everything, her friendly neighborhood honey farmer strikes out on a brutal campaign of violent vengeance in David Ayer’s latest blast of hyperkinetic action, The Beekeeper. The film finds Jason Statham in his element as...
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THE BOOK OF CLARENCE Review: New-School Biblical Epic Undermined By Tonal Imbalance
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Old-school Biblical epics have long been relics of the past, particularly a conservative, homogenous (i.e., white), Christian-oriented culture, reflecting values, attitudes, and an ideology considered universal more than half a century ago. For writer-director-musician Jeymes Samuel (The Harder They Fall),...
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SELF RELIANCE Review: Jake Johnson’s Directorial Debut, A Feast of Wonderful Absurdity
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Jake Johnson, Anna Kendrick, Natalie Morales, and Andy Samberg star in the comedy thriller, directed by Jake Johnson, premiering exclusively on Hulu. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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CRIMINAL RECORD Review: Murder, Police, Justice, Doubts
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Peter Capaldi and Cush Jumbo do battle in the gripping, moody series, now streaming on Apple TV+. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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SXSW 2024: 3 BODY PROBLEM, THE FALL GUY, and Midnighters
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The 31st edition of the 2024 SXSW Film & TV Festival has announced that 3 Body Problem, the new series from David Benioff and D. B. Weiss Game of Thrones and Emmy Award nominee Alexander Woo, will be the Opening...
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FIRST TIME CALLER Review: Apocalypse Wow
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J.D. Brynn and Abe Goldfarb direct a sci-fi thriller, based on a podcast, starring Abe Goldfarb and Brian Silliman. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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