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Meeks discusses his extensive research and working the non-professional actors in recovery. The post Interview: Adam Meeks on ‘Union County’ and Acknowledging Our Shared Humanity appeared first on Slant Magazine.

Andrew Patterson’s film is an awkward blend of disparate elements. The post ‘The Rivals of Amziah King’ Review: A Honey-Sweetened Southern Fable About Community appeared first on Slant Magazine.

For all its gentleness, Robb Moss’s film doesn’t shy away from thorny terrain. The post ‘The Bend in the River’ Review: A Life-Affirming Portrait of Time, Friendship, and Change appeared first on Slant Magazine.

Like its taciturn protagonist, there are no airs about Adam Meeks’s film. The post ‘Union County’ Review: Will Poulter Anchors a Quietly Powerful Picture of Recovery appeared first on Slant Magazine.

Kurosawa discusses making his first jidaigeki and its mixture of myth and historical reality. The post Interview: Kurosawa Kiyoshi on the Universal Resonance of ‘The Samurai and the Prisoner’ appeared first on Slant Magazine.

Gluck discusses people’s squeamishness around on-screen sex and more. The post Interview: Will Gluck on ‘One Night Only’ and the Challenges of Making Theatrical Rom-Coms appeared first on Slant Magazine.

The film is sometimes racy and cutting, only for it to turn soft, doe-eyed, and chaste. The post ‘One Night Only’ Review: Will Gluck’s Rom-Com Is a Sitcom-ish Spin on ‘The Purge’ appeared first on Slant Magazine.

Ice Cream Man’s shocks are fueled by the sophistication of the kills and who commits them. The post ‘Ice Cream Man’ Review: Eli Roth’s Narratively Thin Spoonful of Grisly Ultraviolence appeared first on Slant Magazine.

Schoenbrun and Einbinder discuss balancing the intellectual and the physical. The post Interview: Jane Schoenbrun and Hannah Einbinder on ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ appeared first on Slant Magazine.

The hidden depths of Eimbcke’s latest have a knack for sneaking up on you. The post ‘Olmo’ Review: Fernando Eimbcke’s Funny and Poignant Coming-of-Age Story in a Minor Key appeared first on Slant Magazine.