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Bring Them Down | Review

Everybody Hurts: All Pain and No Gain in Christopher Andrews’ Debut Bring Them Down If misery loves company, then Bring Them Down is a party....

Aisha | Review

No Safe Havens: Letitia Wright’s Breathtaking Refugee Turn Frank Berry’s Aisha is the superbly moving record of a Nigerian refugee’s quiet fight for dignity in...

À propos de Joan (About Joan) | 2022 Berlin International Film Festival Review

Ladies They Talk About: Larivière Utilizes Huppert in Shaky Melodrama on Loss & Love For his sophomore film À propos de Joan (About Joan),  Laurent...

Wolf [Video Review]

Oddly aggressive therapy tactics are the antagonist forces in a coming-of-ager drama that looks at a particular mental health disorder that is steeped in...

Dirty God | Review

A Woman’s Face: Polak’s Tender Melodrama Explores Struggle for Self-Love With her third narrative feature, Dirty God, which also stands as her English language debut,...

The Shadow of Violence | Review

Goodbye Horses: Rowland Riles Allegiances in Familiar Crime Thriller It’s a tale as old as crime itself, the toppling of empires thanks to the shifting...

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La petite dernière (The Little Sister) | Review

The Lost Daughter: Herzi Passes Up Potency in Standard...

Interview: Marjane Satrapi & Vincent Paronnaud – Persepolis

The thrill of meeting Marjane Satrapi reminded me of being 6 years old at Disney Land when I met the living, breathing Cinderella. Except Cinderella was an actress with a blond wig and Marjane is the real woman behind her autobiographical graphic novel, turned movie, “Persepolis”. The distinctive mole on her nose and her dark sultry eyes rose off the page and appeared in front of me, smoking and speaking with a French accent.

Interview: Eivind Landsvik – Low Expectations | 2026 Cannes Film Festival

Exploring themes of mental health, emotional recovery, companionship, and...