Predictions for the 95th Academy Awards
Jimmy Kimmel returns to host the Academy Awards this year, the Academy choosing a tried and true host, this year’sContinue Reading
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Close ★★½
Lukas Dhont’s debut film Girl, inspired by the life of a trans female dancer, earned both praise and derision inContinue Reading
What We’re Watching – August 2022
World cinema is on our mind in this month’s What We’re Watching column, our critics writing on German, Russian, and Belgian cinema.Continue Reading
News From Home and the Curse of an Early Masterpiece
At times, Orson Welles was known to express that he felt Citizen Kane, though proclaimed by many as the greatestContinue Reading
Short Films From the 2021 Fantasia Film Festival
The Last Word In just a runtime of four minutes, ‘The Last Word’ is incredibly unique. It takes a one-sentenceContinue Reading
The Man Who Sold his Skin ★★★½
Dreamy, sleek and full of bite, Kaouther Ben Hania’s The Man Who Sold his Skin is a searing look atContinue Reading
The Films of Chantal Akerman
Directing one of the most well-known feminist films, Chantal Akerman was influential in both the feminist movement of filmmaking asContinue Reading
Cinematic Afterglow, Quarantine, and Jeanne Dielman
It’s often the sign of an exceptional film when you leave the theater (or your couch) with the peculiar sensationContinue Reading
Most Anticipated of May 2020
Video on Demand By Ben McDonald Another month of quarantine down, and perhaps many more to go. While few ofContinue Reading
1999 in Film
In the ninth month of the year, we look at a number of the films released twenty years ago atContinue Reading
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