After watching Zodiac Killer Project, it’ll be hard to view any true-crime mystery documentary the same way again. But if there’s one filmmaker who could pull it off, it’s Errol Morris. Just a few months after this last documentary Separated, the legendary director has adapted Tom O’Neill and Dan Piepenbring’s CHAOS: Charles Manson, the CIA, […]
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The film is an empowering narrative of one woman who refuses to see age as a ceiling.
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Plus: ‘Reacher’ and ‘Surface’ return, ‘Watchmen: Chapter II’ comes home again.
Emma Mackey, Fiona Shaw, Vicky Krieps, Vincent Perez, and Patsy Ferran star in director Rebecca Lenkiewicz’s film about a daughter who uncovers secrets about both her lover and her mother.
The film is a startling vision of two eras shaped in literal and cultural ways by Black people.
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That it has been nine months since Alain Guiraudie’s Misericordia premiered at Cannes should do nothing to diminish the excitement of its U.S. release finally commencing next month. I saw the film right in the heart of a busy NYFF schedule and have found it retaining more than most, still disturbing me well after a […]
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BLKNWS zooms across the screen, propelled by the volume and velocity of its ideas.
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Warm and desolate at the same time, Yun Xie’s tight 75 minute science fiction picture, Under The Burning Sun is a road trip across the desert; a journey to an uncertain freedom by a solitary pregnant woman. The key art may not capture the science fiction, in fact, it features no actual land or landscape at all, with its mid-level camera-angle. It does capture the determination and desperation of its protagonist, however. Painting the tile in large brush strokes, while she glances over her should and the eponymous fiery ball in the sky forms the outline of her biological condition. Also, as I seem to be going on and on in 2025 about this, I like the condensed ultra-tiny credit block placed somewhat unconventionally (ditto the Slamdance…
