Review: Carmen Sandiego (Season Two)
Earlier this year, Netflix released Carmen Sandiego on the world, a rebooted tale focusing on the origins of the iconic criminal. The story ...
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NYFF Review: Portrait of a Lady on Fire
Midway through Céline Sciamma’s masterful Portrait of a Lady on Fire, we get the film’s thematic archstone. So much of this painterly, poetic ...
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Review: Metallica: S&M²
Metallica may not have invented the genre of heavy metal, but they certainly popularized it. Blasting onto the scene in the early 80s, ...
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NYFF Review: The Irishman
The Irishman feels like it could be Martin Scorsese’s final film. It won’t be—he’s already working with Leonardo Di Caprio on Killers of ...
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Review: Ready or Not
It’s very rare for me to actually be excited by horror films. For whatever reason, my suspension of disbelief just doesn’t work in ...
Review: The Amazing Johnathan Documentary
My brother and I loved The Amazing Johnathan growing up. The stand-up comedian/magician specialized in oddball sleight of hand and strange props, and ...
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Review: The Farewell
There’s a brief prefatory note in Lulu Wang’s The Farewell that gives viewers an idea of what to expect: “Based on an actual ...
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Review: Mary Magdalene
There seems to be a common trend with a lot of biblical films. They have extreme reverence for their source material but tend ...
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Review: Master Z: Ip Man Legacy
Legendary Wing Chun practitioner Ip Man is famous for popularizing the Wing Chun style the world over and for having taught Bruce Lee, ...
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Review: Arrested Development – Season Five Part Two
When Netflix originally announced that it would be reviving Arrested Development for a fourth season, fans were ecstatic. The irreverent and off-beat comedy ...
SXSW Review: Show Me The Picture: The Jim Marshall Story
For whatever reason, this SXSW was my year of documentaries. Maybe it’s because I like the journalistic element of them, and maybe it’s ...
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SXSW Review: Olympic Dreams
Maybe it’s in the name, but this is a dream of a film. To see a film completely sold out at the end ...