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Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness | Review

All About Steve: Raimi Returns with Pandering Franchise Fodder While Marvel may have bombarded us into cultural submission through mainstream audience infatuation and growing critical...

Interview: Edson Oda – Nine Days

Edson Oda’s debut feature Nine Days, is, quite simply, miraculous. This spiritual-fiction (“spi-fi”—coined by supporting lead Benedict Wong) film follows Will (Winston Duke in...

The Personal History of David Copperfield | Review

I am (re) Born: Iannucci Condenses a Dickens Masterpiece with Contemporary Aims “It’s in vain to recall the past, unless it works some influence upon...

2020 Sundance Film Festival: Janicza Bravo’s Zola, Josephine Decker’s Shirley & Eliza Hittman’s Never Rarely Sometimes Always in U.S. Dramatic Comp

Among the sixteen narrative feature films announced today all vying for Grand Jury Prize Award we have highly anticipated items from Janicza Bravo (Zola),...

Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2019: #31. The Personal History of David Copperfield – Armando Iannucci

The Personal History of David Copperfield Celebrated satirist Armando Iannucci sets his sights on a sort-of contemporization of Charles Dickens for his third narrative feature...

King Arthur: Legend of the Sword | Review

Le Morte d’Arthur: Ritchie Bastardizes another Icon In the same punchy tradition in which he usurped Sir Arthur Conan Doyle for two studio Sherlock Holmes...

Doctor Strange | Review

Time After Time: More Snark, Less Spark in Derrickson’s Entry into the Marvelverse Marvel introduces their approximation of the mystical realm with their unleashing of...

The Martian| Review

Stranger in a Bland Land: Scott’s Toilsome Return to Space Ridley Scott, who is on the same annual cinematic trajectory as Woody Allen when it...

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Interview: Virginie Efira – All of a Sudden

In All of a Sudden (read review), Virginie Efira delivers...

Interview: Nathalia Acevedo – Salón de belleza

Actress-turned-filmmaker Nathalia Acevedo made her feature directorial debut with...

Fjord | Review

Uncanny Valley: Mungiu Explores Liberated Prisons Totalitarian mentality is driven...