Screen Anarchy

THE SECRET AGENT Review: Much Smarter Than It Pretends To Be
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Kleber Mendonça Filho's epic stars Wagner Moura. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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THE TALE OF SILYAN Review: Astonishing, Precise Visual Storytelling
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The myth that I have always associated with storks is that of them delivering babies via the chimneys of Europeans. I remember vividly the first time I drove through the Romanian countryside and saw a nest on every post, and...
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ARROW Player in December: Santa, Satin and Style! … … Correction, That’s Satan and Style!
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With less than a month unitl Christmas we are here with a reminder that the gift that keeps on giving all year round, the ARROW Player, will be back next month with a bevy of holiday and horror-day treats.  ...
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Friday One Sheet: RELAPSE
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Sometimes, all you need for an effective piece of key art is a well lit photo and a generous bit of negative space. Frost Foundry's poster for Paul Boyd's live-streaming drug addiction rock and roll drama, Relapse, is just that....
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THE THING WITH FEATHERS Review: Big Bird and the Stages of Grief
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There are a wide variety of memes on the Internet, where famous movie characters make alternative choices at the start of their story (Neo takes the blue pill, Harry doesn’t go with Hagrid, and so forth), and the end credits...
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LEFT-HANDED GIRL Review: Vibrant Slice of Taipei Night Market Life
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Shih-Ching Tsou directed and co-wrote Taiwan's official Oscar submission for Best International Feature Film; Sean Baker co-wrote. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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Now Streaming: BLOSSOMS SHANGHAI Starts Flat
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Wong Kar-Wai's first television series, now on The Criterion Channel. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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Now Playing: ETERNITY Romance, HAMNET Grief, WAKE UP DEAD MAN Mystery
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Plus: 'Zootopia 2' from Disney, and 'The Thing With Feathers,' coming Friday. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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Playback: Kleber Mendonça Filho, Civic Tremors, from NEIGHBORING SOUNDS to THE SECRET AGENT
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Kleber Mendonça Filho makes politically charged dramas that draw their power from the everyday, letting ordinary Brazilian life tighten with the slow, simmering tension of a thriller. His films lay bare the class rifts and quiet violences embedded in the...
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NO MORE TIME Exclusive Trailer: Are You Paranoid or Is It Real?
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While speculativew films about outbreaks of illness and plague are not new to cinema, we definitely look at them differently. and have more personal and arguably somewshat accurate stories to tell along these lines, given that we have lived through...
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