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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...

[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 ...

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