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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...

2022 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Frank Berry’s Aisha

Moving from a tragi-docudrama I Used to Live Here (2014) to what appears to be a very raw prison system film in Michael Inside...

The Last Shift | Review

Stuck in Neutral: Cohn Cooks Up Sensitive (and Hilarious) Fast Food Tragedy Andrew Cohn delivers a heart-wrenching ode to the working class, missed connections and...

Video: Jim Hosking’s An Evening with Beverly Luff Linn | 2018 Sundance Film Festival

The type of idiosyncratic creative that will likely polarize auds much in the same way Harmony Korine did, Jim Hosking's follow up to The...

2018 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Jim Hosking’s An Evening with Beverly Luff

Heavy on the gag....reflex, Jim Hosking's feature break out debut (a 2016 Sundance Park City at Midnight selection) was what could categorically be called...

2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: John Slattery’s God’s Pocket

He traded on-set education on Mad Men and then cornered this project almost a decade earlier when he picked it up as a...

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Sumo: Spirit Weighs Nothing | 2026 London BFI Film Festival Review

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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...