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[Review] The Whole Truth
It's been a curious few weeks for adult fare at the multiplex. With girls on trains, autistic accountants and ex-military vigilantes, there's no shortage of mov...
[VIFF Review] The Student
The Student, which is translated on screen as "The Disciple" (an interpretation far more fitting, although the Russian word used is also close to “Martyr”) is, ...
[NYFF Review] Karl Marx City
The head of Karl Marx glooms over Chemnitz, Germany -- figuratively, as this city was once part of the Eastern Bloc, formerly known as Karl-Marx-Stadt, and lite...
Lee Chang-dong Preparing ‘Secret Sunshine’ Follow-Up; ‘Don’t Breathe’ Director Fede Alvarez Goes ‘Incognito’
Six years is an awfully long time for any artist to go silent, and such an absence is all the more palpable in the case of Lee Chang-dong, whose previous fe...
[VIFF Review] The Love Witch
“According to the experts, men are very fragile.”
Shot in sumptuously lit 35mm, The Love Witch is a throwback to Hammer Horror films and Technicolor melodramas...
[NYFF Review] 13th
Humanity gave birth to inequality. The American experience is rooted in institutionalized racial inequity. Our forefathers came to this nation either by choice ...
Rachel McAdams and Rachel Weisz to Practice ‘Disobedience’ in Erotic Drama
According to Variety, Rachel McAdams is currently in negotiations to star opposite Rachel Weisz in the Sebastián Lelio-helmed drama Disobedience. The picture ...
[VIFF Review] Old Stone
Old Stone (Lao Shi) is a film wrapped around the gut-wrenching dilemma of a man who knows a moral choice but struggles to find the fortitude to carry through wi...
Sasha Lane on the Chaotic Beauty of ‘American Honey’ and Surreal Experience of Cannes
"Once I saw the film it felt like an epiphany."...
