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All posts by Amir Soltani
“Finding Vivian Maier”: A Disconnect Between Form and Content
There is a conundrum that film critics often face while writing about documentary cinema: although form and content are perhaps more easily separable in documentary films, they are also significantly easier to conflate in criticism. Meaning fiction films are r...
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Review: “The Missing Picture”
In the mid-1970s, the forces of Khmer Rouge, led by Pol Pot, took over Cambodia. Their vicious, autocratic reign initiated a four-year national genocide that exterminated about a quarter of the country’s entire population. In the regime's Utopia, no Cambodian ...
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“Omar” Crosses The Walls Dividing Smart and Thrilling Storytelling
There is a danger inherent in political cinema that plagues a vast number of films made within the genre: if the filmmaker tempers personal theories and passionate arguments for the subject at hand, the film can become politically insipid and socially irreleva...
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“Girl On a Bicycle” Has a Variety of Nationalities and a Lack of Wit
Hollywood has always had the tendency to rehash recipes that are proven to taste like magic to the audience. One can argue that such filmmaking is understandable when the financial stakes are high with big budget studio blockbusters, but it’s disheartening whe...
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A Cautionary Note On Festival Coverage: Sundance and the Hyperbole Problem
is the beginning of the Sundance Film Festival! A joyous occasion for most of the cinephile kingdom, but one for which warnings need to be issued before film reviews start trickling in. The position of this festival on the calendar, its reputation as a launchi...
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