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“O f course I loved Felix,” Oliver Quick (Barry Keoghan) admits readily, staring down the camera lens. “But was I in love with him?” He scoffs and shakes his head. T…
W hen the first trailer for Ridley Scott’s long-awaited Napoleon biopic dropped in July, various historians had a lot to say about how Sir Rid seemed to be portraying …
G ood filmmaking is all about knowing when to stop. Yes, there are cool camera moves and killer line readings and blissful moments of high drama, but if at the end of …
T he lights go down and the audience succumbs to the auditorium’s quiet. Activity settles in anticipation as the familiar title card ‘Our Feature Presentation’ appears…
A dding melodrama to the seemingly endless list of genres he can turn his hand to, Todd Haynes creates a thorny, completely compelling feature from Samy Burch’s acerbi…
W ithin the VHS-infused neon haze of Amanda Kramer’s Give Me Pity! resides an unhinged, ghostly presence hungry for spectacle. Its haunting is incessant as it intercep…
S cene: One sweaty summer in 1950s New Orleans, a tearful, brittle Southern Belle faces accusations of promiscuity from a suitor. He’s discovered this genteel teacher …
A lready this decade Kristoffer Borgli has established himself as a satirist of the branded self. His calling card short Former Cult Member Hears Music for the First T…
T here are few cinematic imaginations as delightfully surreal, as full of wonder, and as critically divisive as the one belonging to filmmaker Tarsem Singh Dhandwar. O…
A young Buddhist monk and a wizened old man are soaring through the forest, running on air as if weightless. The old man’s white hair and robes stream behind him as h…
W hen David Fincher brought Chuck Palahniuk’s landmark cult novel Fight Club to the big screen in 1999, he created a monster. Brad Pitt’s Tyler Durden became an inspir…
T he first thing my coach did when I stepped into the boxing ring was readjust my position. The second thing he did was tell me that if he ever had to move me about, I…
E very bartender knows that the hardest part of the job is controlling the room. But The Royal Hotel, the Australian Outback outpost in the new film by Kitty Green wou…
T his is a film which plays into our societal fixation with and trust of technology as an apparatus that could be more trustworthy than the signals generated by our ow…
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