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Sweet Country is a tough, complex Australian film that provides a glimpse into the painful history of that nations’s brutal treatment of its origin...
- Added: Feb 14, 2019
- Length: 04:05
Pablo Trapero is one of the four or five most highly acclaimed Argentine film directors. His first film, Crane World, released in 1999, put him on ...
- Added: Feb 14, 2019
- Length: 03:45
The Little Stranger is what you would call a haunted house mystery, although that description may already give an inaccurate impression of the film.
- Added: Feb 14, 2019
- Length: 04:15
Barry Jenkins adapts a James Baldwin novel about a black couple who won’t let anything, including an unjust arrest, keep them apart.
- Added: Feb 14, 2019
- Length: 04:55
13th, a 2016 documentary directed by Ava DuVernay, starts with some alarming facts. The U.S., with 5% of the world’s population, houses 25% of the ...
- Added: Feb 05, 2019
- Length: 04:49
Boxing films have been a popular genre since the very beginning of motion pictures, and those who like them usually have a favorite. Probably the m...
- Added: Feb 05, 2019
- Length: 03:58
There are teen movies, and then there are movies about teens. That’s a distinction that I just made up. My idea is that teen movies are what film c...
- Added: Feb 05, 2019
- Length: 04:17
In 1917, a tragic and criminal episode in American history occurred in the copper mining town of Bisbee, Arizona. Local miners had recently been or...
- Added: Jan 31, 2019
- Length: 04:34
Jon Negroni shares his spoiler-free thoughts on ROMA, the new film directed by Alfonso Cuarón.
- Added: Dec 13, 2018
- Length: 11:15
You Were Never Really Here. That’s a strange and unsettling title for a film. But it perfectly fits this new picture, the fourth feature from Scott...
- Added: Aug 20, 2018
- Length: 04:11
Sometimes I come across a real treasure by sheer chance. Recently, when the movie I’d gone to see was sold out, I went to another one in the same t...
- Added: Aug 20, 2018
- Length: 03:47
The desire for a loving relationship takes many forms in the latest film from veteran French director Claire Denis, Let the Sunshine In. Juliette B...
- Added: Aug 20, 2018
- Length: 04:15
A man of faith is tested to the limit in Paul Schrader’s latest film, First Reformed. Ethan Hawke plays Reverend Stoller, the minister of a Dutch R...
- Added: Aug 20, 2018
- Length: 04:35
For someone who writes about films as I do, there are always cases of movies that fly under the radar, escaping my notice, maybe not even playing l...
- Added: Aug 20, 2018
- Length: 03:35
"For any child that has been struggling with their sexuality, who has seen that movie. That could have been a life saving moment for them." - Mike ...
- Added: Apr 09, 2018
- Length: 01:11:37
The Post, Steven Spielberg’s latest film, tells a complex and fascinating true life story—the decision by The Washington Post in 1971 to print The ...
- Added: Feb 12, 2018
- Length: 04:03
Mudbound tells the stories of people who don’t often get their stories told: poor white farmers and black sharecroppers in the South during the 194...
- Added: Feb 12, 2018
- Length: 04:02
Many are indifferent to fashion, and I happen to be one of them. But I do recognize that for those who are interested, it can be a serious business...
- Added: Feb 12, 2018
- Length: 04:32
There have been three films this year featuring the rescue of British troops from Dunkirk, and two about Winston Churchill. I’m not sure why this w...
- Added: Jan 17, 2018
- Length: 04:32
There have been quite a few dramatic films on the theme of the death penalty, most of them making an eloquent case against it, and some of them rea...
- Added: Dec 09, 2017
- Length: 03:26
The Florida Project is a film of rootlessness and dysfunction, so unusual that nothing could have prepared me for its kind of honesty.
- Added: Dec 09, 2017
- Length: 04:31
Drawn from over 100 hours of footage from the National Geographic archives that was long believed to be lost, and featuring a gorgeous musical scor...
- Added: Dec 09, 2017
- Length: 04:14
Among the films of Federico Fellini are a few that have achieved classic status, and deservedly so, such as La Strada, La Dolce Vita, and 8 ½. But ...
- Added: Oct 26, 2017
- Length: 04:45
In 1996, Nick Gold, a British music producer, asked the American guitarist Ry Cooder to come to Havana and help him record a few sessions with some...
- Added: Sep 06, 2017
- Length: 04:43
Chris reviews Pablo Larraín's Neruda.
- Added: Apr 13, 2017
- Length: 03:58
