Review: After Blue (Dirty Paradise)
After Blue (Dirty Paradise) is probably not meant for you. In fact, it’s probably not meant for most people. It’s a strange and surreal ...
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Movies
Review: Titane
About 30 minutes into the run of Titane, director Julia Ducournau’s follow-up to her 2016 not-quite-cannibal-coming-of-age film Raw, I had a very specific idea of ...
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Review: The Fall of the American Empire
Every now and then I’ll see a movie that I don’t particularly like but I find thought provoking. Every now and then I’ll ...
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A first-timer’s guide to Agnes Varda: Faces Places
French cinema is an area of filmmaking I’m really enthused by, and since learning about it as a student, the sheer novelty of ...
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Tribeca Review: Slut in a Good Way
I’m not usually one for movies about teenagers going through the perils of teenage life. I lived through it, it sucked, and why ...
Review: Ravenous
Hoo boy was I hoping for something better out of this. I’ll start by saying it has some gorgeous shots throughout, and the ...
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Tribeca Capsule Review: Rock’n Roll
I feel like I might have appreciated Rock’n Roll more if I was familiar with French pop culture and the country’s film industry. ...
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Review: My Life as a Zucchini
There’s this pervasive idea that children are resilient, that they’re able to cope well even in dire circumstances. In stories about forlorn kids, ...
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Review: Raw
While playing at film festivals last year, the hype over Raw was insane. Writer/director Julia Ducournau’s coming-of-age horror/cannibal drama purportedly caused audience members ...
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Review: Elle
Elle has been billed as a rape-comedy, but that’s a misnomer. It’s a comedy in the classical sense given the events of the ...
Paul Verhoeven is back with Elle starring Isabelle Huppert, watch the trailer
Though Showgirls eventually achieved camp/cult status, it was a major strike against Paul Verhoeven’s career. He couldn’t find steady footing in Hollywood afterwards, ...
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Review: April and the Extraordinary World
Animated films are the best, aren’t they? They give more life to their worlds than most live-action films do with their mixed use ...