Category: Theatrical Review

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Armand: Accusations Build, by Josh Long

Some of the most exciting films of the last few years are coming out of Scandinavia. In this decade alone, we’ve gotten Godland and Touch from Iceland, seen Thomas Vinterberg come back to the cinematic forefront with Another Round, and...

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Bird: Chaotic Good, by Scott Nye

Andrea Arnold’s films pivot on the arrival of a disarming, charismatic, and chaotic force, someone who in their initial presentation offers the young women at the center of her films an escape, but also possibly damnation. Michael Fassbender’s lithe lecher...

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Am I Racist?: Be Better, by Tyler Smith

Justin Folk’s Am I Racist? is the latest film from conservative website The Daily Wire and it is, in many ways, exactly what you would expect. It is a reaction and rejection of the current political conversation about race. In...

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Edinburgh International Film Festival 2024: *smiles and kisses you*, by Simon Read

A documentary about a young man who anthropomorphizes his love doll might seem like an exploitative bit of titillating voyeurism, and for all the thought that’s been put into the project, Bryan Carberry‘s film would probably be just that, were...

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Edinburgh International Film Festival 2024: Steppenwolf, by Simon Read

Kazakh filmmaker Adilkhan Yerzhanov‘s thriller Steppenwolf is an unflinching homage to classic Western and Samurai films, set in the dystopic scrublands of the Kazakh Steppe. The story concerns a woman named Tamara, (Anna Starchenko) whose son has been abducted by...

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