Japan Cuts Review: Rurouni Kenshin
I have all 28 volumes of the Rurouni Kenshin manga. When I hear the first few notes of “Freckles,” I am suddenly returned ...
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Japan Cuts Review: The Warped Forest
When I explained to a friend that I had just seen a film that featured trees that are actually women with skin colored “branches” ...
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NYAFF Review: Very Ordinary Couple
When most non-Koreans think of Korean films, they think of deeply disturbed violence and bleak, depressing dramas (I know I used to). What ...
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NYAFF Review: When a Wolf Falls in Love with a Sheep
When people use the word “cute” to describe a movie, it’s usually dismissive. “It was cute,” as if there was an unstated “Eh” ...
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NYAFF Review: How to Use Guys with Secret Tips
At last year’s NYAFF, it seemed like every other film I saw blew me away. Looking back at the roundup, almost half of ...
Japan Cuts Review: A Story of Yonosuke
A Story of Yonosuke clocks in at 160 minutes, which is a good chunk of time to spend with the title character and ...
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Japan Cuts Review: Thermae Romae
The plot of Thermae Romae sounds like it was born from a drunken night of playing Mad Libs: a bath house architect from ...
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Review: Behind the Camera: Why Mr. E Went to Hollywood
As a reviewer, there’s only so many, there is a constant cloud hanging over my head questioning whether or not I am just ...
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Review: A Band Called Death
It’s weird what manages to slip through the cracks. In last year’s Academy Award-winning documentary Searching for Sugar Man, the music of Sixto Rodriguez ...
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Review: After Tiller
Before After Tiller even began, I thought I knew how I was going to start this review: I was going to comment on the ...
Review: The Purge
The great thing about the ‘human horror’ genre, the type of horror where the bad guy isn’t a machete-wielding zombie death machine or ...
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Review: Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me
During junior high and high school, I was a big fan of Matthew Sweet, whose music I still dig today. When I hear ...