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Dir. Ahmad Hassunah & Ahmed Al Danaf
From Ground Zero doesn’t have the most number of shorts within an anthology film, though it comes pretty close with…

Dir. Paolo Sorrentino
In his last few months as president, Mariano de Santis has a few loose ends to tie up. This includes…

Dir. Jafar Panahi
You can probably predict from the title that an accident starts this thriller but what happens after is totally unexpected.…

Dir. Christopher Leone
Code 3 is a comedy about a crazy night out, though the craziness doesn’t stem from drunkenness, drugs, or bad…

Dir. Boris Lojkine
What is Souleymane’s Story? Right off the bat, that’s what everyone asks from Souleymane. It’s what his fellow immigrant asks,…

When a mix-up in the school pick-up line turns out to be a kidnapping, it’s the beginning of the nightmare…

Dir. Coralie Fargeat
There is nothing quite like The Substance right now. It’s unsubtle, it’s provocative, and its satirical humor can be a…

Dir. Bradford Thomason & Brett Whitcomb
For the longest time, television seemed to be the antithesis to reading– part of that belief still lingers to this…

After the only war the Americans have lost, American post-Vietnam war portrayals tend to lean as patriotic revenge fantasies or…

Dir. David Hinton
Is there anything more lovely than hearing Martin Scorsese talk about cinema? Maybe it’s just the film nerds in us–…

Dir. Jang Jae-hyun
For the longest time, land was where people formed strength in community, where people were born, lived, died, and was…

Dir. Ray Yeung
While the film is calm, contemplative, and never goes into histrionics, there’s a deep-seated anger in All Shall Be Well…

Dir. Shiori Itō
Continuing her fight to tell the world the truth about her sexual assault case, journalist Shiori Ito released Black Box…

Dir. Park So-yeon
High school can be an incredibly cruel place, but it’s not as systematically cruel as the Baekyeon Girls’ High School…

Dir. Andrea Arnold
Given the genre being centered on a child protagonist, many coming-of-age stories sideline parents in the narrative, sometimes to the…

Dir. Cameron Cairnes & Colin Cairnes
After you get back home, and you tuck your kids to bed, we search for some easy entertainment in the…

Dir. Tim Fehlbaum
On September 5, 1972, at the Summer Olympics in Munich, Germany, Palestinian terrorists held members of the Israeli Olympic team…

Dir. Huang Ji & Ryuji Otsuka
At two hours and nearly 30 minutes, Stonewalling is quite long. The third film from spouses Ryuji Otsuka and Huang…
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