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. ...
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Review: I, Daniel Blake
Bureaucracies make great villains. Faceless and absurd, they operate in such nefarious ways and are perfect machines for dehumanization. Bureaucracies are reliably inefficient, ...
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Review: Abacus: Small Enough to Jail
Steve James may be incapable of directing a bad documentary. His films includes Hoop Dreams, The Interrupters, and Life Itself. With Abacus: Small Enough ...
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Review: Fire at Sea
Sometimes I’ll see a movie and that makes me shake my head and say, “Okay, yeah, I get it”. These sorts of movies ...
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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, ...
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 ...
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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: Toni Erdmann
There’s no way Toni Erdmann could ever live up to its hype. Reviews from Cannes and the Toronto International Film Festival touted the ...
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NYFF Review: Neruda
[This review is part of Flixist’s coverage of the 54th New York Film Festival, which runs from September 30th to ...
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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 ...
Review: Gimme Danger
Iggy Pop and Jim Jarmusch sound like an unlikely pairing. One’s the primal frontman of proto-punk legends The Stooges, the other’s a mellow, ...
NYFF 2016: Our Most Anticipated Movies of the 54th New York Film Festival
The 54th New York Film Festival kicks off on Friday, September 30th and runs until Sunday, October 16th. This year’s slate looks generally ...