Review: Tampopo
Prior to this week, the last time I saw Juzo Itami’s 1985 food comedy Tampopo was in the mid-90s. I remembered so little ...
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Review: The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman’s Portrait Photography
The B-Side is an atypical Errol Morris documentary. He doesn’t use the Interrotron at all, his tool that allows interviewees to stare directly ...
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Review: Shin Godzilla
When Gareth Edwards’ take on Godzilla failed to light up screens here in the U.S., Godzilla‘s parent company, Toho, took the reboot as ...
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Review: Moonlight
I don’t want to (and am not going to) make this review about the fact that Moonlight is a film about African Americans. ...
Review: American Honey
American Honey is shot in a 4:3 aspect ratio, where the image is approximately 1.33 times wider than it is tall. Movies looked ...
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DOC NYC Review: 13TH
13TH feels like a culmination of Ava DuVernay’s career to this point. The documentary brings together the racial and social history of Selma, ...
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Review: Paterson
Jim Jarmusch’s Paterson is work of subtle optimism. It’s a gentle film, kind and generous, funny, too. Watching the movie, I sensed Jarmusch ...
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Review: Manchester by the Sea
Watching Manchester by the Sea, I was reminded of two lines from the musical Hedwig and the Angry Inch: “I cry, because I ...
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Review: Snowden
I never saw Citizenfour, the documentary Laura Poitras made about Edward Snowden. I thought about it a lot and certainly meant to, but ...
Review: Sully
It’s a tricky thing about the story of Captain Chesley Sullenberger. The true story of the man who landed an airplane in the ...
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Review: Don’t Breathe
Three years ago, Fede Alvarez proved that he was a talent to watch. Evil Dead is a great film, tense and horrific and, more ...