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[Review] Pelé: Birth of a Legend

It may be called Pelé: Birth of a Legend, but Jeff and Michael Zimbalist's film is really about Ginga soccer and Brazil at risk of losing its soul. The climax d...

[Review] Cash Only

An arson insurance scam attempt gone tragically wrong leaves low-rent criminal Elvis Martini (Nickola Shreli) with little to hold onto besides his young daughte...

[Review] Dark Horse

Like its namesake mutt, Dream Alliance, Dark Horse is an easy documentary to underestimate -- an archetypal underdog story of a working-class town coming toget...

[Review] Belladonna of Sadness

It all begins with Once Upon a Time. Such a simple introduction for Belladonna of Sadness, a 1973 Japanese animated feature whose newfound legacy includes a dec...

[Review] Being Charlie

After a string of hits in the 80s and 90s, director Rob Reiner has struggled to achieve the same success. Some of his projects post-2000 have made money and som...

[Montclair Review] Actor Martinez

There are indie film scenes like the one chronicled in Actor Martinez everywhere, ones where those with a day job have ambitions that cannot and never will pay ...

[Review] Captain America: Civil War

In seeking to create an expansive multi-film universe, Marvel has managed to both bless and curse each of its subsequent films. The blessing comes in the form o...