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Israeli vs. Israeli terrorist drama is a timely, thrilling provocation

"2011 Sundance entry Terri is a low-key American indie all about the struggles of an obese high schooler (Jacob Wysocki) in the thoroughly funky outskirts of Pasadena. The film has the cloy, ironic ponderous that inflicts so many smaller productions these days - the smug superiority of the tightly budgeted – yet manages to retain winning measures of intrigue and charm."

Everyone in the avant-garde and experimental cinema world seems to revel in the idea of 'space': interior & exterior spaces, how one 'negotiates' space, 'place' vs. 'space', 'virtual' vs. 'physical', mapping vs. traveling, and so on down the line. Really, though, as we're officially immersed in the still foreign space known as the WWW, we're more disoriented now than ever before.

The sophomore effort from Canuck prodigy Sarah Polley takes two graceful steps in the wrong direction

"Though director Elijah Drenner's first docu full length feature is an entertaining and historically enlightening film on often forgotten genre, its topic is too broad to cover in such a short length of time. A film focusing on the antiquities of exploitation cinema, American Grindhouse packs just the nuts and bolts, leaving the coveted nitty-gritty on the cutting room floor."