drama
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The Diary of a Teenage Girl
A gripping, hilarious portrait of female adolescence that's devoted to truth, not morality.
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Ten Thousand Saints
The 1980s straight edge hardcore scene sets the backdrop for this coming of age tale.
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The Great Man
Succeeds in capturing the male bond and its significance in manhood.
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The Kindergarten Teacher
A child prodigy and his obsessive teacher make for a hauntingly evocative but ambiguous tale.
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Ricki and the Flash
A musical family drama that gets dampened by a tentative script and an even-steven ending.
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Catch Me Daddy
A bleak, impressive directorial debut whose dreariness is matched with a haunting, poetic beauty.
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Assassination
Tries to do too much and becomes unwieldy too early, losing both focus and viewer interest in the...
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They Look Like People (Fantasia Review)
Tough to recommend as a viewing experience, but as an experiment in cinematic mood placement this one fires...
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Seashore
A slim relationship between two male adolescents blossoms just in time.
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Two Step
This intense Texas thriller, with its core theme rooted deeply in desperation, is slow to burn, but impossible...
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Horse Money
Vivid and peculiar memories of the Carnation Revolution continue in Pedro Costa's latest mind-sapping hybrid.
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Kyle Patrick Alvarez and Dr. Philip Zimbardo on ‘The Stanford Prison Experiment’
The value of the Stanford Prison Experiment is in its findings, not its ethicality.
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Phoenix
A Holocaust survivor with a reconstructed face must confront the husband who may have handed her to the...
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Southpaw
The best boxing matches are roller coasters of emotion, full of twists, shifts in momentum and ungodly displays...
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Big Significant Things
An exploration of the mundane unable to transcend the tedium of its character's lives.