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Miss Violence
The term Greek New Wave (sometimes called Weird Wave) has been floating around ever since Giorgos Lanthimos’s Dogtooth...
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A Five Star Life
I don’t subscribe to the notion that a film must have a destination – that it must arrive...
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Mood Indigo
No filmmaker could pull off adapting Boris Vian’s “unfilmable” novel better than the inventive Michel Gondry. Before the...
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Honour
Honour, the 2014 British thriller and directorial debut of Shan Khan, tells the story of Anglo-Pakistani woman Mona...
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Borgman
The unpredictable mechanics of evil have rarely been as captivating as they are in Alex Van Warmerdam’s Borgman....
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Me and You
Italian filmmaker Bernardo Bertolucci hadn’t made a film in about a decade before his latest movie Me and...
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Nothing Bad Can Happen
In Nothing Bad Can Happen, a “provocative” film without anything truly provoking, Tore (Julius Feldmeier) is a homeless...
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Norte, the End of History
First thing’s first: Lav Diaz’s epic Norte, the End of History is 250 minutes in length, a relatively...
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Miss Lovely
At its debut at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival, Ashim Ahluwalia’s chameleonic Miss Lovely was declared a new...
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Heli
From the start, Heli establishes the brutality and transparency of its setting. Opening with two men lying in...
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We Are The Best!
“Punk is dead” is a phrase heard several times throughout We Are the Best!, but it’s certainly not...
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Mommy (Cannes Review)
When discussing a new Xavier Dolan, it’s his age and not his movie that takes center stage. After...
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The Dance of Reality
It’s hard to believe Alejandro Jodorowsky hasn’t released a film in almost 25 years. The cult director, whose...
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Ida
Anna (Agata Trzebuchowska) is an 18 year old orphan about to become a nun in 1960s Poland. At...
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Ilo Ilo
Singapore born director Anthony Chen makes an impressive feature debut with Ilo Ilo, which not only received the...