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[Fantastic Fest Review] Felt

Being challenged and shocked by a film can be both a blessing and a curse. Inevitably it will alienate many, but those that show up to the genre film festival k...

[Review] Nas: Time Is Illmatic

Tracing the life, times and political ideology behind Nas’ groundbreaking 20-year old album, Time Is Illmatic is a new seminal hip-hop documentary. Much like La...

[Review] Annabelle

The doll is creepy; there’s no use in trying to dispute that. Even when John (Ward Horton) first brings it home to his pregnant, doll-obsessed wife, Mia (Annabe...

[Fantastic Fest Review] Cub

The mystery that unravels in Cub can leave one feeling a bit unsatisfied, but the journey to that point has genuinely interesting moments that make the experien...

[NYFF Review] Time Out of Mind

Finding a link between the shared title of Oren Moverman's third feature film, Time Out of Mind, and Bob Dylan's 1997 album took a little effort. Moverman co-wr...

[NYFF Review] Life of Riley

I suppose we ought to first get one thing straight: Alain Resnais is one of the greatest directors who ever lived, and Life of Riley is his final film, premieri...

[NYFF Review] Eden

It begins with a dark night in the woods and the occasional sight of a half-complete face or full-figure silhouette, such impressions stemming only from pale mo...

[NYFF Review] Whiplash

Late in Whiplash, Terence Fletcher, studio band leader and instructor at Shaffer Conservatory of Music, argues that "the most harmful words in the English langu...