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Sundance 2026 Review: BIG GIRLS DON’T CRY, A 14-Year-Old Girl Assimilating the World Only Through the Other
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“I want to become anyone except myself.” -- Mary and Max What occupies the mind of a preadolescent girl at fourteen? For Sid Bookman (Ani Palmer), it is a liminal period marked by an unexamined sensitivity to changes in both...
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A POET Review: The Unbearable Weight of Passive Talent
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Ubeimar Rios stars in Simón Mesa Soto's melancholy film, which is "primarily a story about humans, not professions or vocations." [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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Chattanooga 2026: Film Festival Announces Fun Sized First Wave
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Almost a full half year before the start of the festival on June 18, the Chattanooga Film Festival has announced a "fun-sized first wave of films and events." Now in its 13th year, the festival will celebrate that anniversary with...
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Now Playing: SEND HELP, ARCO, SHELTER, BACK TO THE PAST
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Plus: 'July Rhapsody,' 'The Love That Remains,' 'Islands,' 'Bitter Rice,' 'The Moment,' 'A Poet.' [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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Sundance 2026 Review: THE LAST FIRST: WINTER K2 Documents an Avoidable Tragedy
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Amir Bar-Lev directed. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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V/H/S: Popular Horror Anthology Franchise Acquired by Spooky Pictures And Image Nation Abu Dhabi
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News from Variety this morning is that the V/H/S horror anthology franchise has been acquired from Studio71 by Spooky Pictures and Image Nation Abu Dhabi.   With franchise creator Brad Miska's recent departure from Bloody Disgusting, the other primary producer...
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BACK TO THE PAST Review: Modern Day Mercenaries in Ancient China
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Louis Koo, Raymond Lam, Jessica Hester Hsuan, Sonija Kwok, and Lai-Ming Tang star in the Hong Kong action movie. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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Friday One Sheet: CRIME 101, And Character Work
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A gritty-glossy (and subtly distressed) series of character posters dropped recently for Bart Layton's (The Imposter)'s adaptation of Don Winslow's (The Savages) heist potboiler about literal highway robbery, Crime 101, in anticipation of its February release. Framed in ultra close-up,...
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Sundance 2026 Review: THE ONLY LIVING PICKPOCKET IN NEW YORK, An Ode to Times and Peoples’ Past
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John Turturro, Jamie Lee Curtis, Steve Buscemi, Giancarlo Esposito, Tatiana Maslany and Will Price star in writer/director Noah Segan's character study / crime drama. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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Sundance 2026 Review: THE WEIGHT, Ethan Hawke Leads Period Crime-Drama
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Russell Crowe also stars in director Padraic McKinley's crime drama. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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