Amanda Yam

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Ten Thousand Saints | Review I

East Village Ennui: Coming of Age Story Displaced, Too Hip For Own Good A coming of age narrative comprised of the familiar: teen angst, frustration,...

Meru | Review

Treacherous Journey to The Top Shows Unmeasured Determination At over 20,000 feet, the highest peak of the Meru Mountain, also known as the Shark’s Fin,...

Big Significant Things | Review

Eager Yet Flawed: Indie Darling is Safe-Guarded and Traditional Brian Reisberg's debut feature has many of the usual markings of an indie sleeper hit but like an...

Irrational Man | Review

Tepid Contemplation: The Unraveling of a Mild Murder Plot For his 46th feature film, Irrational Man calls upon Woody Allen’s fascination, or at least tendency to create a...

What Happened, Miss Simone? | Review

Writing on the Wall: Garbus Offers Compressed Portrait of Soul-Gospel-Jazz Queen Nina Simone, a prominent musician-turned-civil-rights-activist, left behind a legacy in which the latter part...

Breaking

2025 Berlinale: Linklater, Hadžihalilović, Sangsoo, Gabriel Mascaro, Michel Franco, Vivian Qu & Mary Bronstein in Comp

Nineteen features in competition, Artistic Director Tricia Tuttle loaded...

I’m Still Here (Ainda Estou Aqui) | Review

Still Missing: Salles Returns with Survivors of the Dictatorship “The...