We all enjoy a good heist flick, but stretching one into a limited television series is a gamble that is…
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I don’t want to say that this Telluride Film Festival has been more “political” this year than in the past,…
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The Telluride Film Festival historically incorporates a fair number of documentary features and shorts alongside the main attraction, narrative features.…
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Here’s a shocker for you: the titular pair in Netflix’s “The Perfect Couple” is not, in fact, perfect. I’m sure…
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The Venice Film Festival is one of the most essential film events of the year, the bridge to the fall…
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It was in 2015 that I received my first invitation to the Venice Film Festival from Peter Cowie, the venerable…
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There is always abundant suspense in the Telluride Film Festival (TFF) lineup; it’s kept secret until the Thursday before the…
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A ferociously satisfying update of “First Blood” with a rustic Southern setting, “Rebel Ridge” furthers writer-director Jeremy Saulnier’s pattern of…
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Set in a nondescript working-class suburb of Sweden, “Paradise is Burning” focuses on three sisters whose mother is terminally absent.…
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Being an avid cinephile, attending a film festival has always been a gift of epic proportions. That gift is amplified…
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