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Declaration of War
Declaration of War is about the nightmare that every parent with a sick newborn fears, that something is...
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Someone I Used to Know
After several years, three childhood friends meet on a summer night at a Los Angeles night club to...
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28 Hotel Rooms
From first time filmmaker Matt Ross comes an indie romance drama that is both incredibly subtle and very...
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For Ellen
So Young Kim has placed a young child at the heart of the story for her second consecutive...
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The Silence
There hasn’t been a movie recently that has beaten me down more emotionally than Baran bo Odar’s new...
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Paradise: Hope (Berlinale)
A highly anticipated screening I attended here at Berlinale was Ulrich Seidl’s third installment of his Paradise trilogy,...
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Robot & Frank
Robot & Frank is a sentimental buddy-movie between two unlikely people; well, technically just one as the other...
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I Am a Ghost
Most horror films today seem to put less of an emphasis on form, which makes I Am...
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As High As The Sky
As High As The Sky felt like it was a personal sentimental film from writer and director Nikki...
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Wild Girl Waltz
I wasn’t sure what to make of Wild Girl Waltz to begin with; I was hesitant to say...
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The Ghastly Love of Johnny X (SF IndieFest)
A decade in-the-making, The Ghastly Love of Johnny X is a retro-tinted window into the mind of director...
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Lore
When a movie takes place directly before, during, or after World War II in Germany, there is little...
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The Story of Luke (SF IndieFest)
After the great success of the eminently popular Juno and Little Miss Sunshine, there was a deluge of...
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Ghosts with Shit Jobs (SF IndieFest)
Directors Chris McCawley, Jim Morrison, Jim Munroe, and Tate Young’s take on the dehumanization and sterilization of North...
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The Diary of Preston Plummer
The Diary of Preston Plummer feels like a very personal film for writer and director Sean Ackerman; essentially...