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Sep 19, 2023

Khmer Graffiti

Ask any American film fan, even the most adventurous arthouse enthusiast, what the name “Cambodia” brings to mind and they’ll probably blurt out The Killing Fields, Roland Joffé’s shocking 1984 dramatized account of the Khmer Rouge takeover in the 1970s. Or else they’ll mention one of director Rithy Panh’s...
Sep 12, 2023

Bonfire Lighter

Sep 2, 2023

Call Him Melville

Aug 30, 2023

14 Angry People

Aug 23, 2023

Passages

A love triangle runs its course Sexual desire flickers, burns and then burns out in Ira Sachs’ new movie Passages. Tomas (Franz Rogowski), a filmmaker, is a restless soul who exudes a magnetism that both attracts and repels....
Aug 10, 2023

Undead Again

Thrilling new horror pic dives deeply into the Dracula mystique The Last Voyage of the Demeter doesn’t look, sound or feel like most of today’s horror movies. As conceived by director André Øverdahl and writers and technicians working...
Aug 9, 2023

Look Familiar?

Rom-com deluxe ‘Shortcomings’ has more than tribal identity on its mind Shortcomings began life as a graphic novel by popular cartoonist Adrian Tomine (Killing and Dying, Optic Nerve), and he wrote its screenplay as well—as directed by TV...
Aug 2, 2023

Odd Man Out

Vacation goes from bad to worse in Afire A summer vacation by the seashore doesn’t seem to be working out for the two men in Christian Petzold’s new film Afire. Leon (Thomas Schubert) and his friend Felix (Langston...
Jul 26, 2023

World Destroyer

Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer is some degree of masterpiece The story of J. Robert Oppenheimer is a fine excuse to study the workings of power in the U.S. Nuclear physicist Oppenheimer is generally credited with orchestrating the development of the first...
Jul 26, 2023

Dollhouse Delirium

Best-selling Barbie doll triggers a pink geyser of money So intense has been the publicity/advertising run-up to the Warner/Mattel candy-mobile Barbie that less wary members of its prospective audience may wonder what makes it worth the hype. What’s so special about a...
Jul 25, 2023

Barbie vs. The Bomb

A pink geyser of money (Barbie) and the story of the A-bomb’s father (Oppenheimer) So intense has been the publicity/advertising run-up to the Warner/Mattel candy-mobile Barbie that less wary members of its prospective audience may wonder what makes...
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