First Time Fest Review: Junction
[This weekend, we are covering New York City’s First Time Fest. Check back for reviews of some competition films from these directors trying ...
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RFC Review: The Suicide Shop
[Over the next few days we’ll be looking at some of the films from Rendez Vous with French Cinema 2013, an annual showcase ...
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Review: In the House
There’s a great short story in Richard Yates’s Eleven Kinds of Loneliness called “Builders.” In it, one of the characters naively but sincerely ...
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Review: Simon Killer
The title Simon Killer makes it seem like you’ll be watching a slasher movie or a serial killer movie. It recalls Talking Heads ...
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Film Comment Selects Review: Dormant Beauty
[For the next week we’ll be looking at some of the movies playing at the Film Comment Selects series, featuring films hand selected ...
Film Comment Selects Review: 3
[For the next week we’ll be looking at some of the movies playing at the Film Comment Selects series, featuring films hand selected ...
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Film Comment Selects Review: Motorway
[For the next week we’ll be looking at some of the movies playing at the Film Comment Selects series, featuring films hand selected ...
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Sundance Review: Lovelace
Pornography is a dirty business and I’m not strictly speaking about the clean-up crew. One doesn’t have to deeply penetrate the industry to ...
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Sundance Review: The Gatekeepers
In Israel’s Shin Bet, I find an intelligence agency not so different from the CIA. In Israel’s religious zealots, I find an extremist ...
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Sundance Review: Emanuel and the Truth About Fishes
Throughout the entirety of Sundance, Emanuel and the Truth About Fishes was the only movie I didn’t take any notes on. I guess ...
Sundance Review: Very Good Girls
Dakota Fanning is now old enough to play the role of the older sister and it freaks me out. Witnessing a child actor, ...
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Sundance Review: Magic Magic
Some laugh at what scares them. This act can be perceived as obnoxious and puzzling to someone else in a theater, but it ...