Thursday, October 16, 2025

On the films of Jonas Trueba — a young Spanish filmmaker...

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His middle name is Groucho but his comedy is far from the Marx legacy that influenced his father, Spanish filmmaker Fernando Trueba, and though...

Little Men and the heartbreaking inevitable — a film review

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Get ready, one of the most heart-rending movies of 2016 may be Little Men. It's one of those films that will hit you like...

Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World considers the state...

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There are few things today as ubiquitous as the internet. Our daily lives are sorted and stored online in a variety of ways, and...

Director Lucile Hadzihalilovic talks about the pleasures of surreal film narrative...

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Tonight, Evolution, the sci-fi/horror hybrid by French writer/director Lucile Hadzihalilovic will have its Florida premiere at the Second Annual Popcorn Frights Film Festival (Our review: Evolution...

The Childhood of a Leader presents obscure yet potent portrait of...

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The directorial feature debut by American writer/actor Brady Corbet offers an arcane psychological portrait of a little boy who grows up to become a fascist leader. The storytelling...

Evolution skips clear narrative to create waking nightmare of body horror...

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Too often, mainstream American horror movies strain to explain circumstances to get to the bottom of a mystery, which often saps an important element...

Under the Shadow builds tension with patience to chilling results —...

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  It's been a long time since a jump scare has genuinely grabbed me and left me unnerved in the pit of my guts the...

In The Bride a theatrical drama is brought to the big...

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The Bride (La Novia) is based on the famous play "Bodas de sangre" by Federico García Lorca, retold through the eyes of Spanish writer-director...

Dheepan winds inner turmoil with tense intimacy — a film review

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Shadows obscure life throughout Dheepan, in the drudgery of scraping a living together from nighttime street vending to cleaning out dank common areas in a French...

Suicide Squad is an exasperatingly dull sidebar to super hero genre...

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There is nothing in Suicide Squad that shows any hope that an auteur filmmaker can do anything distinctive with the current cash cow of...