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Miguel Gomes, the Portuguese filmmaker behind Tabu, Arabian Nights, and The Tsugua Diaries, is back with a black-and-white-shot odyssey that toggles eras, cultures, and styles. Grand Tour, billed by MUBI as a “melodrama and screwball comedy with a cat-and-mouse chase […]
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(Check out Don Lewis’s movie review of Louder Than You Think: A Lo-Fi History of Gary and Pavement Jed I. Rosenberg’s doc on the early days of the band Pavement. It’s available now to own or stream via Factory 25. Seen it? […]
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In 2021, zero states banned transgender health care for adolescents. Now in 2024, 24 states ban lifesaving transgender healthcare for adolescents. What happened? Prominent medical experts and organizations, including the American Medical Association, the American Psychiatric Association, and the American […]
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Stop-motion animation filmmaker Duke Johnson is making his live-action feature debut with The Actor. Johnson, who co-directed the Oscar-nominated Anomalisa with Charlie Kaufman (also an executive producer), adapts Donald E. Westlake’s 2010 novel Memory into a visually beguiling film that […]
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German screenwriter Moritz Binder co-wrote the screenplay for the 2024 film September 5 together with director Tim Fehlbaum and American dialoguist Alex David. I reviewed the movie last fall and put it in my Top 10 for the year. In […]
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Flow has now come home. Gints Zilbalodis’ double Oscar nominee for Best Animated Film and Best International Feature Film is now streaming on Max, following an ongoing theatrical run and ahead of its eventual 4K Criterion Collection release. This bold, […]
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Brides, premiered in the World Dramatic Competition at Sundance 2025, marking the feature debut of acclaimed theatre director Nadia Fall. The film follows two teenage Muslim girls – Doe (newcomer Ebada Hassan) and Muna (Safiyya Ingar) – who run away […]
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Following its TIFF premiere last fall and upcoming screening at SXSW where it will close the festival, Daniel Minahan’s 1950s-set romantic drama On Swift Horses is making its way to U.S. theaters. Adapted by Bryce Kass from Shannon Pufahl’s 2019 […]
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Tunisian director Amel Guellaty just premiered her feature-film debut, Where the Wind Comes From, at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival (where I reviewed it). The movie offers striking visuals and a compelling story of friendship in a road-trip structure, showing […]
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