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Embers (Slamdance Review)
A thought-provoking debut about how memory ties into our own individuality.
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If There’s a Hell Below (Slamdance Review)
An intense and skillfully realized debut, 'If There's a Hell Below' is one impressive thriller.
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Kate Plays Christine (Sundance Review)
A documentary designed to confront the kinds of thorny issues most filmmakers would prefer to ignore.
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Driftwood (Slamdance review)
Paul Taylor's dialogue-free debut showcases the ups and downs of purely visual storytelling.
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MAD (Slamdance Review)
'MAD' has a great cast and plenty of wit, but its acerbic screenplay winds up getting the better...
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Naz & Maalik
A powerful premise fizzles fast in this drama about a pair of closeted Muslim teens in New York.
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Martyrs
A remake whose irrelevance dominates every frame.
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45 Years
The frailty of the human ego threatens to topple the might of a long marriage in this measured but mesmerizing...
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Henry Gamble’s Birthday Party
Secrets and lies rise to the surface in this sensitive drama about the struggle between devotion and desire.
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Anomalisa
Kaufman's inventive and intricately crafted stop-motion drama is undermined by the emptiness of its miserablist existentialism.
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Those Who Feel The Fire Burning
A provocative, hypnotic film dealing with the plight of immigrants stuck in Europe.
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Arabian Nights: Volume 3 – The Enchanted One
Not the strongest chapter of Miguel Gomes' otherwise masterful work in his Arabian Nights series.
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Arabian Nights: Volume 2 – The Desolate One
Arabian Nights: Volume 2 - The Desolate One may just be the most haunting movement in Gomes' glorious,...
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Arabian Nights: Volume 1- The Restless One
Miguel Gomes creates a work of surreal, humorous, and vigorously compelling cinematic art in Arabian Nights: Volume 1...
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Christmas, Again
An unorthodox, somewhat listless take on the Christmas movie.