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Palo Alto
Gia Coppola’s Palo Alto wades through the malaise of modern teen life as well as any movie has in years, reminding...
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Alive Inside
If you listen to enough random music on the radio or the internet, you are likely to hear...
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Rich Hill
“We’re not trash. We’re good people.” These are some of the first words we hear in Tracy Droz...
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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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Fantasia 2014: The Drownsman
The Drownsman stars Michelle Mylett as Madison, a young woman we know absolutely nothing about. Madison’s best friend...
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Child of God
James Franco continues his efforts of adapting classic literature into films, first with William Faulkner’s As I Lay...
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Back Issues: The Hustler Magazine Story
First-time filmmaker Michael Lee Nirenberg interviews his father, Bill Nirenberg, in his new documentary, but fuzzy sentimentality and...
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A Master Builder
At the start of A Master Builder, successful architect Halvard Solness (Wallace Shawn) is on his death bed....
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West End
The mob drama may be played out, but that doesn’t stop writer/director Joe Basile from taking a crack...
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Premature
If comedic Hollywood has anything to say about it, sex, and its pursuit, is pretty much all the...
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Cinemanovels
In the world of Cinemanovels, the name John Laurentian stands next to famous directors like Bergman and Antonioni....
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Boyhood
With last year’s Before Midnight being clearly one of the best of 2013 (at least in our opinion),...
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Forev
A lighthearted romantic comedy with few surprises, Forev is the sort of film that does little more than induce...
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Whitey: United States of America Vs. James J. Bulger
The opening to Joe Berlinger’s latest documentary is the format’s biggest staple: the talking head. Stephen Rakes, a...
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Borgman
The unpredictable mechanics of evil have rarely been as captivating as they are in Alex Van Warmerdam’s Borgman....