Indie Movies
Independent movie reviews from film festivals, theaterical releases, video-on-demand, home video and streaming.
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Match
A conversational film pairs an aging dancer and a curious couple.
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Appropriate Behavior
A bisexual Brooklynite hilariously suffers through a break-up and her Iranian family's expectations.
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Gangs of Wasseypur
An epic Indian gang drama smothers with violence, 'Gangs of Wasseypur' is laborious and overly long.
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Little Accidents
Sara Colangelo's small-town tragedy 'Little Accidents' wonders into familiar territory.
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Two Days, One Night
The Dardenne brothers, Jean-Pierre and Luc, are worshiped filmmakers in the art-house community. They have been impressing audiences since 1996’s The Promise and are among the distinguished few who have two Palme D’Ors to their name (for 1999’s Rosetta...
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Winter Sleep
A genuine experience that will leave you completely nourished. A cat’s whisker away from being a masterpiece.
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After The Fall
Not quite hero story, not quite anti-hero story, 'After the Fall' misfires.
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The Immortalists
The search for the cure for aging is lead by two eccentric scientists.
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Jingle Bell Rocks!
And you thought you were obsessed with the holidays?
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Remote Area Medical
A documentary on the medical needs of America's poor.
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Wild
Cheryl Strayed's memoir gets a worthy screen adaptation with outstanding performances.
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The Color of Time
The Color of Time is a film for students; its heavily filtered aesthetic and non-linear structure will appeal far more to the artistic undergraduate than the average cinema-goer.
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Maidan
The political struggles and uprising of the Ukraine are given a camera's lens.
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Evolution of a Criminal
A documentary exploring crime from the perspective of the man who once committed it.
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National Gallery
London's National Gallery gets the documentary treatment.
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Antarctica: A Year On Ice
A documentary on life in Antarctica told by a long-time resident.
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Little Hope Was Arson
Theo Love has directed and edited an intense and surprisingly affective investigational documentary. And the only reason I say “surprising,” is because one wouldn’t think a subject like this would turn out so gripping just by reading it on...
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The Sleepwalker
A psychological drama of tension between two sisters.
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A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night
A lonely vampire girl preys on the bad men of her city in this atmospheric and near-perfect Iranian indie horror-western.
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The Case Against 8
The controversial case against gay marriage in California gets the spotlight in this engaging documentary.
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Butter on the Latch
Disorienting and experimental Josephine Decker's feature debut film is a wonder.
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Happy Valley
The Penn State child sex abuse scandal with Jerry Sandusky and Joe Paterno gets a documentary treatment.
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Thou Wast Mild and Lovely
A stylish farm-set, grim thriller around family and lovers.
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Citizenfour
The now infamous story of Edward Snowden's leaking of confidential NSA papers is covered from its beginning moments.
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Beside Still Waters
Chris Lowell's directorial debut plays with nostalgia as old friends gather for a weekend getaway.
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Emptying the Skies
A documentary on saving the endangered songbirds of Europe is admirable and uninteresting.
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Starry Eyes
The path to fame is splattered in blood in this Hollywood-based horror film.
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Horns
A man wakes up to find he's growing horns, and can hear the dark thoughts of others in this macabre tale.
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White Bird in a Blizzard
A teenager full of sexual angst is impassive at the disappearance of her mother, but grows to find she should have taken more interest, and asked more questions.
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Listen Up Philip
If you can bear it, Perry and Schwartzman's misadventures of a misanthrope is an intriguing study in misery.