drama
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This Is Martin Bonner
Chad Hartigan’s This Is Martin Bonner won the Best of NEXT Audience Award last year at the Sundance...
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Go For Sisters
A consistently intriguing figure in the independent film community, John Sayles is a sometimes brilliant, usually “meh”, filmmaker...
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Nothing Without You
Having taken a short break from independent films for a short while, I was able to watch Nothing...
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Paradise: Hope
The last installment of the Paradise trilogy is Ulrich Seidl’s Paradise: Hope, a coming-of-age film about a teenage...
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Inside Llewyn Davis
The latest creation from masterminds Joel and Ethan Coen is about a folk musician named Llewyn Davis; a...
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Let The Fire Burn
In Jason Osder’s bleak, infuriating documentary Let The Fire Burn there’s a feeling of amazement at what he...
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Twice Born
Sergio Castellitto’s adaptation of his wife Margaret Mazzantini’s novel, Twice Born is an overwrought romantic melodrama set in the Bosnian...
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Faust
Aleksandr Sokurov’s 2011 film Faust, screening now at New York City’s Film Forum, is essentially a story of...
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Philomena
Judi Dench, an actress capable of moving mountains with her onscreen power, is capable of much more than...
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A Touch of Sin
The opening of Jia Zhangke’s A Touch of Sin shows a conversation communicated entirely with violence. A migrant...
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Cut To Black
Cut to Black, Dan Eberle’s fourth feature length film, charts the well-travelled waters of a 1940’s film noir...
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The Broken Circle Breakdown
A major success in its home country of Belgium (and the country's submission for Best Foreign Film at...
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Roulette
To say Roulette is dark film would be an understatement. The film holds nothing back as it shows...
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Fill the Void
Turning 18 means different things in different cultures, but almost every culture agrees it’s an age of adulthood. ...
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About Time
Richard Curtis, the sentimental writer/director behind charming British rom-coms Love Actually, Notting Hill and Bridget Jones’s Diary, is easily England’s male Nora...