NYAFF 2024 Review: Breaking and Re-Entering
While the NYAFF this year is littered with a ton of character dramas and generally unconventional narrative films, it’s not lacking in crowd-pleasing ...
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NYAFF 2024 Review: Bushido
Much like how Westerns have gradually faded away from modern Hollywood cinema, samurai films have mostly fallen out of favor with modern Japanese ...
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NYAFF 2024 Review: Snow in Midsummer
One of the scenarios that can crop up when watching international cinema is that you might not be able to fully understand the ...
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NYAFF 2024 Review: The Guest
It’s a bit refreshing to see such a minimalist horror/thriller get featured at a big film festival. After watching a ton of two-hour-long ...
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NYAFF 2024 Review: Granny Prostitutes
I’ll level with all of you right up front: the main reason I wanted to review Granny Prostitutes is because the title of ...
NYAFF 2024 Review: Carefree Days
It’s been quite some time since I’ve seen a film that could be wholly categorized as a character study. As what seems to ...
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NYAFF 2024 Review: For Alice
As cliché as the “sad dad” story might be in 2024, one can’t deny that it holds dramatic impact. I still remember the ...
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NYAFF 2024 Review: Pattaya Heat
It’s hard to come to terms with the fact that Hollywood has been influential across the entire globe while other countries struggle to ...
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Oscar Watch 2023: The Zone of Interest
As we’ve come to the end of Oscar Watch 2023, I feel like this exercise was well worth the effort I put into ...
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Oscar Watch 2023: Oppenheimer
If more biopics were like Oppenheimer, I wouldn’t be complaining about how dull they often are. Against all odds and my own personal ...
Oscar Watch 2023: The Holdovers
I can’t remember the last time a Christmas movie was nominated for the “Best Picture” Oscar. A quick Google search tells me Little ...
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Oscar Watch 2023: Killers of the Flower Moon
What is it that I said at the beginning of my Oscar Watch article for Maestro? That biopics are pretty bad, right? I ...