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“Junun” Is A Beautiful Tribute to Artistic Collaboration
Editor's note: We are thrilled to announce that MUBI, the curated online cinema that brings its members a hand-picked selection of the best independent, international, and classic films, is now sponsoring Movie Mezzanine. One of MUBI's current selections is Ju...
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“Our Brand is Crisis” Is Sharp, But Self-Congratulatory
In the most basic terms, any political campaign is an exercise in marketing. Every election, regardless of its geography or scale, is a painstaking branding process where candidates, like cereal or potato chips, are wrapped in attractive packaging and sold via...
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“Love” Is Basically “Annie Hall” With Money Shots
Some time ago, I lived next door to a couple who, by all accounts, were terrible for each other. I’d lie awake at night, listening through the paper-thin walls to their galvanic arguments, usually set off by some ludicrous imagined slight conjured up in a fit ...
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“Tokyo Tribe” Is Utterly Indelible
Many critics have attempted in vain to hurl comparisons to films past at the madness that is Tokyo Tribe, only to watch their references pathetically slide away from its majestic visage of grimy neon. Sure, one can draw the line from this to The Warriors or St...
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“The Wonders” Accomplishes the Impossible
The good people at The Match Factory are building quite the film catalogue. Even if we were only to look at a small cross-section of recent festival acquisitions, their roster is pretty jaw-dropping with titles such as Andrew Haigh's 45 Years, Miguel Gomes' Ar...
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“Bone Tomahawk” Isn’t Fooling Around
I’m not sure if the disparate genre elements in Bone Tomahawk all hang together quite as well as they should, but one thing for certain is that first-time writer-director S. Craig Zahler isn’t fooling around. A sci-fi horror cannibal exploitation picture by wa...
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“All Things Must Pass” Is A Warm and Wistful Music Doc
Last week, I went to a record store for the first time since I can’t even tell you when. It’s something I should do more often, as I’d kind of forgotten the sheer time-killing enjoyment of aimless browsing and flipping through the stacks for discoveries and su...
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“The Last Witch Hunter” Is Thoroughly Dull
To look at the career of Vin Diesel surrounding the various films in which he achieves maximum fastness and furious-ity is to look at the career of a man who badly wants to be seen as his generation’s Arnold Schwarzenegger. There is the gritty crime drama (A M...
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“Nasty Baby” Is A Weird Beast of a Film
Following Crystal Fairy & the Magical Cactus and Magic Magic, Chilean writer/director Sebastían Silva once again treads softly around the rare intersection of drama, suspense, and comedy with his latest film, Nasty Baby. Displaying a consistent knack for c...
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Why “Beasts of No Nation” Is Merciless and Difficult to Watch
There are two integral components to any review of Beasts of No Nation: Its identity as a piece of art and its identity as a product of an industry experiencing post-millennial growing pains. “Netflix presents a Netflix original film,” the credits tell us befo...
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