“American Star” is an art house variant of the familiar story of an old hitman facing his mortality while doing…
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The coming-of-age story has a fairly consistent structure: A young person living a difficult home life must learn to grow…
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The one constant of life is change, and our own individual relations to the place we grew up, or came…
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Four years ago, the Sundance Film Festival was one of the last major events in the film world before the…
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The Midnights program at Sundance this year was strongly considered to be one of the best of the year, particularly…
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Usually, I have to search for what themes bind together the films in a dispatch. But for these three documentaries…
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The fourth season in the NatGeo anthology drama series “Genius,” focusing on Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X’s lives…
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The Alliance for Downtown Manhattan has open submissions for their Filmmaker in Chief creative residency to produce, direct and edit…
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When the first Iranian Film Festival New York unfurled at NYC’s IFC Center in early 2019, its co-founder, distributor Armin…
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Let’s rip off the band-aid: I’m shocked at how little I cared for “Masters of the Air.” “Band of Brothers”…
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