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[AFI Fest Review] Men Go to Battle

Mumblecore and the period drama have (somehow) come together, and the result is far better than people who are generally allergic to the subgenre may expect. On...

[AFI Fest Review] The White Knights

In pop-culture consciousness, non-governmental organizations usually crop up on the margins of stories. A granola college student will pay lip service to the he...

[Review] Shelter

It's quite comforting to see actors-turned-directors not shying away from tough subject matter. You'd almost assume they would amidst stereotypes of celebrity v...

[AFI Fest Review] Disorder

Disorder tackles the home-invasion thriller on an unusual front, emphasizing paranoia and uncertainty over any nightmare of intruders coming to get you; the hom...

[AFI Fest Review] Southbound

The V/H/S series has crashed and burned badly, but producers Brad Miska and Roxanne Benjamin have moved on to a different anthology of horror shorts, now joined...

[AFI Fest Review] Field Niggas

Photographer Khalik Allah has been documenting down-on-their-luck New York denizens on the streets for several years. During the summer of 2014, Allah swapped h...

[Review] Sembene!

For the uninitiated, Samba Gadjigo and Jason Silverman’s Sembene! offers a valuable entry into the canon of African cinema and its founding father: the late, gr...

[Review] Sex, Death and Bowling

Making her narrative directorial debut, actress Ally Walker's earnest, if not subtle Sex, Death and Bowling is by no means a groundbreaking film on any of these...

[Review] Miss You Already

Miss You Already is the rare cancer movie that’s uninterested in holding the audience hostage. Rather, it uses the context of a cancer story to show the totalit...