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[NYFF Review] The Blue Room

Mathieu Amalric is having a pretty good year. Venus In Fur, of which he is the star, made its way stateside to positive reviews; he had a fine supporting role i...

[NYFF Review] Seymour: An Introduction

For many of us, Ethan Hawke is the playful, charismatic actor who's had a solid career, with highlights often coming in the form of a Richard Linklater film. Hi...

[TIFF Review] La Sapienza

La Sapienza opens with a montage of Italy’s greatest architectural wonders -- cathedrals, domes, churches, and more shot in perfect lighting, propelled to grand...

[TIFF Review] Still The Water

Naomi Kawase’s Still the Water begins in a beguiling, abstract way that sets the tone for the rest of her film in more ways than one. First, a beautifully lit a...

[Review] The Strange Color of Your Body’s Tears

You don’t have to be familiar with the films of Mario Bava, Sergio Martino, Paolo Cavara, or even Dario Argento to appreciate The Strange Color of Your Body’s T...

[Review] What Now? Remind Me

Joachim Pinto’s What Now? Remind Me begins as a personal diary film, a chronicle of his ongoing to struggle to live with AIDS, interesting primarily because of ...

[Review] Five Star

In Five Star, a film about a teenage boy named John (John Diaz) whose gangster father was killed by a “stray bullet,” John “Primo” Grant, a member of the Bloods...

[Tribeca Review] Night Moves

For almost a decade now—or, since returning to the world of feature-length film she left behind with 1996’s Leaves of Grass—Kelly Reichardt has been making form...

[ND/NF Review] Of Horses and Men

Horses are a peculiar and versatile animal in that, through the 5,000+ years that they have been domesticated, they have held a place in the hearts of mankind a...