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Ash

Ash is the vision of a filmmaker reared on the hectic images of music videos. The ambition gets swallowed by its derivativeness.

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Final Destination Bloodlines

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Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning

This is Tom Cruise at this best, at his most vulnerable, and at his most ambitious.

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Shapeshifters, Religion, and Other Ghouls with Constantin Werner: Writer and Producer of In the Lost Lands

Werner gives his insights about co-writing with Paul WS Anderson, the challenges of producing the project, the differences between his screenplay and both Martin’s original text and the final film, the role of religion in the story, the filmmaking lessons he gleaned, and much more.

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Sinners

Ryan Coogler gets dangerously close to the horrifying center of American culture over the course of the single night — close enough for Sinners to dance with America’s original sin.

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In The Lost Lands

The sort of world one wishes they could give Ted Cruz a one-way ticket to.

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A Moving-Picture Analysis of the 2025 4 Nations Face-Off

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A Complete Unknown

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Nickel Boys

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Black Velvet

A genre-defiant drama about depression with a formalist flare, the Latvian-Lithuanian co-production Black Velvet uses some killer editing and funky cinematography to zero in on the strangeness and alienating effect of that unique sadness.

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Anna LOL

Anna may not feel anything, but any audience even half paying attention will. Anna LOL is a remarkable film, and it is one of the best Baltic films I have seen so far this year.

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Deaf Lovers

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Zack Snyder’s Rebel Moon - Chapter One: Chalice Of Blood and Chapter Two: Curse of Forgiveness

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Ruminations on A Taxi Driver

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The Musicality of The Beast

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VIFF 2024: Hoard (2023) dir. Luna Carmoon

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VIFF 2024: Excursion (2023) dir. Una Gunjak

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The Post-Colonial World of Bong Joon-Ho

Bong's films are postcolonial in the sense that they often reflect the Korean context by depicting the United States as a neo-colonial empire; however, his postcolonial messages are largely dependent on a reversal of American genre expectations, and, as a result, his films still dialogue with the co

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Watching Movies on a Small Screen Is a Better Experience. If You Care About Audio

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Don't Go Breaking My Heart Is Sports Genre as a Love Triangle

Johnnie To is well known in the West for his action and crime films but, the populist that he is, he’s also a prolific director of romances and musicals. Entire books have been written on To’s filmmaking focusing on the likes of The Mission (1999), PTU (2003), and

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Love Under Capitalism in Comrades, Almost a Love Story

“It was winter and cold and we were two lonely people keeping each other warm.”

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Economical and Apolitical: Boy From Nowhere is a Film Worth Your Time

This a film worth seeing.

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“Glorious” and “Gloomy”: The Drug King and President Park Chung-hee

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Give Me More: 2022 Releases in Review So Far

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A Stellar New Perspective on Modern Chinese Cinema

In his article “Why ‘The Chinese Cinema’?”, film critic Sean Gilman provides a thoughtful explanation for why he uses “cinema” as singular and not plural. For his purposes, it’s a reference to Andrew Sarris’s famous work “The American Cinema” and is not meant as a film critic'