Review: Headwinds (Des vents contraires, 2011) ★★★★
Headwinds, directed by Jalil Lespert, is primarily a story about loss, and the unforeseen difficulties of living with a loved-one’s
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Review: A Cure for Wellness (2016) ★½
Director Gore Verbinksi’s A Cure for Wellness will immediately draw comparisons to Shutter Island (Martin Scorsese, 2010), a film that
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Review: XX (2017) ★★½
XX is one of the few (possibly the only) horror anthologies written and directed by female filmmakers and focusing on
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Review: Valley of Love (2015) ★★★
One of the most interesting things about Valley of Love is the insertion of French actors into distinctly American locales.
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Review: Things to Come (L’Avenir, 2016) ★★★★★
Things to Come is a French-German philosophical drama film, written and directed by Mia Hansen-Love, about a brilliant educator coping
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Review: The Windmill (2016) ★½
The Windmill (also released as The Windmill Massacre) is a 2016 Dutch horror/drama film from director Nick Jongerius. The story
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Review: Train to Busan (부산행, 2016) ★★½
South Korea has become a powerhouse in the horror and horror-thriller genre over the last decade and a half. There
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Review: 20 Centimeters (20 Centímetros, 2005) ★★★★½
When first introduced to 20 Centimeters, I was understandably skeptical. A musical about a narcoleptic transgender woman with a 20-centimeter
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Review: Strike (1925) ★★★★
Sergei Eisenstein’s first feature film, Strike, serves as a prime example of the revolutionary techniques and artistic vision of the
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Review: Les Invites de Mon Pere (2010) ★★★½
Les Invites de Mon Pere, or My Father’s Guests, is a 2010 French comedy film, written and directed by Anne
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Review: Kung Fury (2015) ★★★½
Kung Fury is a Swedish short film (with a runtime of about 30 minutes) written, directed by, and starring David
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Review: Mother’s Day (1980) a film by Charles Kaufman
Mother’s Day (1980), written and directed by Charles Kaufman (brother of Troma co-founder Lloyd Kaufman), tells the story of three
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Review: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (2016) ★★
There is something to be said for any film that takes risks. And in a sense, every film production takes
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Review: Grabbers (2012) ★★★
Grabbers (2012) is an Irish horror-comedy pub film, written and directed by Jon Wright. The story follows an alcoholic policeman,
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Review: Creep (2004) ★★
Like so many horror films before it, Creep (2004) starts off strong and eventually succumbs to a weak script, mediocre performances,
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Metzger’s Women: Gender Representations and Visual Abstraction in ’60s Sexploitation
In the years following the 1948 Paramount Case, independent cinema gained a competitive edge in the United States. As the
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Review: Ghost in the Shell (2017) ★★★
In Ghost in the Shell (2017), technology has advanced to the point that humans can replace their own body parts with
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