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The curious link between smell and memory forms the basis of this intriguing — albeit uneven — exploration of the…
A sweet feel-good movie starring Nick Offerman as a dad who has to deal with his only daughter leaving for…
A grieving widow and a telepathic aquarium octopus solve a mystery. It should be unbearable. Instead, Sally Field makes it…
In 2017, the New York Times published a groundbreaking report by Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey that detailed, for the…
The award-winning third feature by director Ava DuVernay, Selma, was released around the 50th anniversary of the historically significant marches…
The question mark in the title represents the central idea of this fascinating documentary: what if worshipping Satan is the…
An offbeat film with a more than decent amount of suspense. To that it adds really good music and unexpected…
This is the type of movie I completely fell in love with but cannot articulate exactly why. Maybe it’s the…
What’s great about this highly inventive film is that it doesn’t look like it was shot through three iPhone 5s.…
Depicting the horrifying cycle of abuse in the state’s prison system, The Alabama Solution is tough to watch. It was…
The agonizing tug of war between dogma and desire is sharply illustrated in writer-director Laurel Parmet’s feature debut, set inside…
Previous depictions of provincial living tend to paint the pastoral experience as idyllic, simple, and much more innocent compared to…
There is nothing quite like The Substance right now. It’s unsubtle, it’s provocative, and its satirical humor can be a…
The first things that grab your attention in Nickel Boys are its beauty and technicality. Director RaMell Ross, a large-format…
The dystopian survival thriller isn’t concerned about the reasons behind its death marathon, only giving a short speech about a…
How do you make sense of Resurrection? This dreamlike feature seems rather inscrutable, but there’s no denying how breathtaking it…
Hurt people hurt people, the saying goes, and nowhere is that more evident than in Hard Truths. Directed by Mike…
You can probably predict from the title that an accident starts this thriller but what happens after is totally unexpected.…
What would you do when you win the lottery? Most people would travel, buy a home, spend it on all…
Be prepared to have the expectations you form after reading Scrapper’s synopsis shattered: though it is about a 12-year-old dealing…
Beautiful in its painterly compositions and gut-wrenching in its storytelling, The Wild Robot has been dubbed one of the best…
In his last few months as president, Mariano de Santis has a few loose ends to tie up. This includes…
La Chimera is often meandering. Scenes flitter about and move at different paces, resembling dreams more than they do reality,…
There are three threads in Daughters that directors Natalie Rae and Angela Patton weave beautifully together. The first thread follows…
For public toilet cleaner Hirayama, “enjoy the little things in life” is more than just an adage: it’s a philosophy.…
A Real Pain is a deceptively simple film. There’s not a lot going on on the surface, but Eisenberg’s smart…
Kill Bill meets Bend It Like Beckham in this wild ride about a martial arts-obsessed British-Pakistani teenager who views her…
My Old Ass has a very simple premise, one it doesn’t even take the effort of explaining. For whatever reason,…
Is there anything more lovely than hearing Martin Scorsese talk about cinema? Maybe it’s just the film nerds in us–…
John Candy: I Like Me takes a somewhat standard approach in remembering the titular comedian. The film pulls out old…
To Kill a Tiger should not be an easy watch. It’s about the gang rape of 13-year-old Kiran, a girl…
You don’t have to be a theater kid to enjoy this feel-good mockumentary set in a summer camp for junior…
Based on the life of a real small town filmmaker, this coming-of-age film is a familiar underdog story. After their…
There’s a degree of removal in Perpetrator which some viewers may find jarring: most visibly, in the performances, whose heightened…
The strength of Plainclothes is the way it captures a memory. Fitting, for a film primarily set on New Year’s…
Aptly for a film partly set in a fortune cookie factory, Fremont deals with luck — specifically, the other side…
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