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If I Had Legs I’d Kick You | Review

You’ll Like My Mother: Bronstein Lets Us Feel the Byrne Motherhood approaches the verge of the horrific in If I Had Legs I’d Kick You,...

2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Kyle Mooney’s Y2K

With so many A24 items looking for 2024 positioning, we wouldn't be surprised if Kyle Mooney's feature debut waits for the next train to...

2022 Indie Spirits Awards Noms: The Cathedral, Palm Trees and Power Lines, Murina & Aftersun Are Glowing

Everything Everywhere All At Once, Tár, Women Talking and Bones and All are the heavyweight indies that will be properly feted the day before...

Funny Pages | Review

Drawn That Way: Kline Makes a Mark with Singular Coming-of-Age Comedy The emphasis of form vs. soul is the riddle at the crux of Funny...

2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Owen Kline’s Two Against Nature

We'll call Two Against Nature the Bermuda Triangle of all our Sundance guesses. An indie comedy that was backed by a talented bunch and...

Eighth Grade | Review

Grade A Time Capsule: Bo Burnham’s Offers Torturous Last Week of Middle School. Eighth Grade is literally eighth grade in hyphenate-comedian Bo Burnham’s resonant directorial...

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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.