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November 1, 2024 · by Amritpal Rai

'The Brutalist' Review: An Exemplarary Meditation of America's Institutes

From the damp, crowded, darkly lit hull of a ship – like Pinocchio confined inside the stomach of Monstro – The Brutalist (2024) opens on an ...

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October 31, 2024 · by Sara Ciplickas

‘The Shadow Strays’ Review: Maximalist Martial Arts

When you break down a story, there’s always a component of good versus evil. If you’re looking for an action flick, the best of this genre ta...

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October 30, 2024 · by Kam Ryan

'Timestalker' Review: Alice Lowe Should Be Your Next Obsession

To quote Charli XCX, it really is so confusing sometimes to be a girl. The film industry seems aware of this reality, producing movies like C...

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October 29, 2024 · by Red Broadwell

'Saw' Twenty Years Later: Jigsaw’s Silly Little Games Live On

After ending the twentieth century with a brief slasher revival, sparked by the 1996 release of Scream, the horror genre, in Hollywood, at l...

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October 28, 2024

NOFF 2024 ‘Rebel Nun’ Review: Homecoming Screening in New Orleans Highlights Nun’s Legacy of Fighting the Death Penalty

Sister Helen Prejean has fought the death penalty for decades — but when a new documentary that screened on October 20 at the New Orleans Fil...

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October 25, 2024 · by Nadia Arain

In Defense of Rob Zombie’s ‘Halloween’ Duology

We all know the story: on an eerie Halloween night, little Michael Myers stabs his older sister Judith to death and is committed to a sanitor...

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October 23, 2024 · by Adam Patla

CIFF 24 ‘The Seed of the Sacred Fig’ Review: Mohammad Rasoulof’s Radical Portrait of a Family Unraveling

There is a specific fig species that falls on existing tree branches and roots as seeds. When it blooms, it wraps itself around the tree and ...

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October 23, 2024

‘Taste the Revolution’ Premieres, Nearly 25 Years After Filming, at New Orleans Film Festival

Over several days in 2001, swaths of would-be revolutionaries swarmed a borrowed estate in Utica, New York, to hold their first “World Summit...

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October 22, 2024 · by Evan Miller

‘Woman of the Hour’ Review: A Killer Win For Anna Kendrick

The most interesting true crime stories are those in which a killer is someone the average person wouldn’t expect. They're the relatable, cha...

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October 22, 2024 · by Sara Ciplickas

CIFF 2024 ‘Memoir of a Snail’ Review: Adam Elliot Molds an Existential Treasure for the Ages

Snails are not often thought of as essential animals, but they possess many unique qualities. When snails feel threatened, they retreat into ...

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October 20, 2024 · by Danny Jarabek

PFF33 ‘Flow’ Review: A Poignant Parable on Collective Climate Change Action

If there’s one thing the Internet has no conceivable shortage of, it's cat videos. And if that endless supply of cat content has taught us an...

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October 18, 2024 · by Anjani Chadha

“The Feeling That The Time For Doing Something Has Passed” Review: Expert Use of Irony to Showcase the Mundane

After months of anticipation, I finally caught Joanna Arnow's latest feature, The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed, which...

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