Crimes of the Future Filmotomy Cannes
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Festival de Cannes Review: Crimes of the Future (2022)

Crimes of the Future was the name of a short David Cronenberg made in 1970. The inspiration for the title came from Henning Carlsen’s classic…

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Festival de Cannes Review: Triangle of Sadness (2022)

Triangle of Sadness is Ruben Östlund’s sixth feature to date and, by far, his most expensive. It is also his weakest work thus far, and I…

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Festival de Cannes Opening Film Review: Final Cut (2022)

As I mentioned in my text about Annette, the opening film at the Cannes Film Festival is generally nothing to write home about. This year’s opener was the…

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Film Review: Paris, 13th District / Les Olympiades (Jacques Audiard)

Jacques Audiard’s speciality as a director is stories about violent men who do not have an innate taste for violence. So it’s something of a…

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Sundance 2022 Double Bill Review: Call Jane (Phylis Nagy) & The Janes (Tia Lessin/Emma Pildes)

Women’s rights and the power to exercise choice was a recurring topic at this year’s Sundance Film Festival seen in more than just a couple…

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Sundance 2022 Review: Am I Ok? (Tig Notaro, Stephanie Allynne)

Directed by Tig Notaro and Stephanie Allynne, Am I Ok? stars Dakota Johnson and Sonoya Mizuno as best friends: Lucy and Jane. The film is…

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The Princess Filmotomy
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Sundance 2022 Review: The Princess (Ed Perkins)

The Princess of Wales. Lady Di. The People’s Princess. Regardless of her title, Diana Spencer was a phenomenon during her life and still continues to…

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Sundance 2022 Review: The Worst Person in the World (Joachim Trier)

Having been regarded by many since its Cannes premiere as ‘one of the best films of the year’, Joachim Trier’s The Worst Person in the…

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Film Review: Licorice Pizza (2021)

Since Paul Thomas Anderson first stepped onto the filmmaking scene in the 90s, he has quickly grown a reputation of being one of the strongest…

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Film Review: Pleasure (2021)

Pleasure is the first feature by Ninja Thyberg, following the eponymous short seen in 2013. Bella (née Linnéa) leaves her small, dreary Swedish town to…

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Nightmare Alley
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Film Review: Nightmare Alley (2021)

Coming off of a Best Picture win with The Shape of Water, the interest in what filmmaker Guillermo del Toro would do next and finally,…

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Indie Focus: Behind Closed Doors (Kaitlyn Boxall)

Ginger Paradise Productions, a project from independent filmmaker Kaitlyn Boxall, is best known for their tribute videos. This year, the young filmmaker has been working…

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Film Review: Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021)

Since the 1984 original film, the Ghostbusters franchise has struggled to find a cohesive and clear path forward for the series. From animated series to…

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Film Review: Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time (2021)

The title is ironic. Have you ever seen the episode of Friends where Phoebe plays some inappropriate songs to a group of little kids? Later…

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