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How to Make a Killing ★★★
In his directorial debut Emily the Criminal, director John Patton Ford offered a cynical and dark noir updated for theContinue Reading
La grazia ★★★
La grazia is a political drama of a bygone era (a less jaded one). It is set in the lastContinue Reading
A Private Life ★★½
Director Rebecca Zlotowski’s A Private Life is a fun and mostly light murder mystery comedy centered on psychiatrist Dr. LilianContinue Reading
Berlinale 2026: London, Everything Else is Noise, If Pigeons Turned to Gold, Ghost in the Cell, AnyMart
Over the past few years the same thing kept happening at Berlinale. I’d see an early screening of something stunningContinue Reading
Berlinale 2026: Previewing the Competition
Once again, Berlin’s cinematic high holidays are upon us, with the 76th edition of the Berlinale film festival set toContinue Reading
Night Nurse ★★½
On the surface, the premise of Georgia Bernstein‘s deceptive debut feature, premiering at Sundance’s experimental Next section, sounds as seductiveContinue Reading
The Musical ★
Among the usually above-par selection of Sundance titles, films like Giselle Bonilla‘s crude debut feel as if the program coordinatorsContinue Reading
Give Me the Ball! (documentary) ★★★
Last year it was pioneering astronaut Sally Ride, the first US woman and third woman in the world to flyContinue Reading
The Incomer ★★
Last Sundance, it was Tom Basden and Carey Mulligan who met a quirky recluse on a fictional speck of landContinue Reading
Time and Water (documentary) ★★★
Already renowned for the elemental beauty and emotional acuity of her 2022 Sundance hit Fire of Love, Sara Dosa returnsContinue Reading
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