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Sundance Review: “Sleeping With Other People”
When director Leslye Headland presented her second film, Sleeping with Other People, at its world premiere in Park City, she pitched it to the audience as “When Harry Met Sally for assholes.” Given this statement, along with the fact that Headland’s previous e...
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Sundance Review: “White God”
Dogs are better than humans. Deep down, we all know this, though we may not acknowledge it. It is for this reason that, though it is rife with flaws, White God is a magnificent achievement. Any film that exploits the inherent greatness of canines with a story ...
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Sundance Review: “Mistress America”
After the black and white meanderings of a directionless Brooklyn waif in Frances Ha, director Noah Baumbach and actress Greta Gerwig have teamed up once again, for something equally as quirky and wonderful (in color this time). In Mistress America we meet Tra...
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Sundance Review: “The Hunting Ground”
As the graduation processional plays bombastically in the background, dozens of young college hopefuls and families open that fateful letter. Tears of joys and squeals of delight are a brief moment of carefree excitement; elated reactions quickly tempered by w...
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Sundance Review: “Western”
Part of Sundance’s U.S. Documentary Competition, Western is a tale of two cities. One, Eagle Pass, lies north of the Rio Grande, a small Texan town with a big Latino population that specializes in the cattle industry. Her sister city south of the border, Piedr...
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Sundance Review: “World of Tomorrow”
In Don Hertzfeldt's World of Tomorrow, robots programmed to fear death stride endlessly across the surface of the moon. The dead bodies of people jettisoned into the upper atmosphere fall back to Earth as beautiful shooting stars. A woman falls in love with a ...
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AFI Fest Review: “Felt”
Felt might be more vitally of the moment than any other film that people aren't likely to see (though it\ was picked up by Amplify out of AFI, so fingers crossed). Right now, a very necessary conversation about rape culture and the myriad ways that society is ...
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AFI Fest Review: “Girlhood”
There’s a moment around two-thirds of the way through Girlhood where it seems as though the movie is winding up. It isn't. In fact, it goes on for another 30-40 minutes. But every single event that takes place in that time is redundant, in light of what the fi...
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AFI Fest Review: “Wild Tales”
Six films, six twisted tales of vengeance. An Argentine anthology film with a dark sense of humor and a gruesome streak, Damian Szifron's Wild Tales links its six vignettes together through a single, common theme: revenge. Not revenge in the grand, Shakespeare...
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AFI Fest Review: “The Tribe”
At the post-screening Q&A for The Tribe, one Concerned Citizen asked director Miroslav Slaboshpitsky whether deaf people might take the film as an unflattering depiction of their culture. Which immediately calls to mind the similar complaint that a Sundanc...
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