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After discerning audiences survived the tidal wave of pollution that was reality TV in the last couple of decades (an oil spill from Jersey...
Skinamarink: Alone in the Dark
The controversial movie of this January has been Skinamarink, and wherever film controversy is, that’s where I’m headed. Most horror movies become controversial because...
Film Shorts // January 18-24, 2023
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After Love (NR) Aleem Khan’s film stars Joanna Scanlan as a British convert who discovers secrets about her Muslim husband after his sudden death....
Saint Omer: L’Anatomie of a Murder
You may have noticed Saint Omer popping up on some film critics’ year-end Top 10 lists. I took in France’s entry into the International...
Film Shorts // January 11-17, 2023
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Broker (R) Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda (Shoplifters) makes this Korean film about a gang of small-time criminals who sell abandoned babies on the black...
M3GAN: Hello, Dolly!
So, the trailer for M3GAN dropped this past fall, and everybody freaked out about the creepy talking and dancing doll. I did, too. A...
The Best Filmmaking Debuts of 2022
Anna Rose Holmer made this list when she directed The Fits on her own, but this year she was part of a team with...
Best Documentaries of 2022
In the year’s best fiction film, Marcel the Shell With Shoes On describes a documentary to his grandmother: “It’s like a movie, but nobody...
All About Rapshit!
In the last couple of years after #MeToo, an evolution of feminism spearheaded by dynamic Black women like Beyonce, Lizzo, and Issa Rae (to...
Film Shorts // January 4-10, 2023
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Corsage (NR) First-time director Marie Kreutzer tries awfully hard to convince us that this isn’t just another European costume epic, when too often that’s...
