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One Night Only ★½
Director Will Gluck’s One Night Only carries with it an unusual premise: three years ago, pre-marital sex was outlawed. ForContinue Reading
Latchkey Cinema – Bridging the 80s (ft. River’s Edge & Running on Empty)
I’m going to bestow Kramer vs. Kramer with an honorary mention in the Gen X movie pantheon. It’s very muchContinue Reading
Tony ★★★
Matt Johnson’s Tony is both coming-of-age and origin story, depicting the transformative summer where Tony (Dominic Sessa), as he hadContinue Reading
Motor City ★★ ½
Motor City is a nasty and gritty throwback thriller from director Potsy Ponciroli. Playing like an exploitation or B-movie fromContinue Reading
Learning to Breathe Under Water ★★
Middle-class boys who haven’t learned yet that their needs always come first are never too young for their very ownContinue Reading
AnyMart ★★★½
“Maybe it starts in places like that one,” muses a young girl on a date with convenience store clerk SakaiContinue Reading
Paris Paris ★½
With its playful repetition and romantic associations, the title of Isabelle Tollenaere‘s aimless feature film debut creates a curious contrastContinue Reading
The Holy Boy ★★ ½
If a place is called “The Valley of Smiles”—as the setting of Paolo Strippoli‘s quasi-religious horror tale is named byContinue Reading
Animol ★★★
The title of Ashley Walters‘ harrowing first feature, premiering earlier this year at Berlinale‘s Perspective section and recently screening atContinue Reading
Hold Onto Me ★★
For her feature film debut, screening in Karlovy Vary‘s Horizons section after premiering at Sundance’s World Cinema Dramatic Competition inContinue Reading
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