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[Review] Magic in the Moonlight

Magic in the Moonlight’s pending release has granted marketing types an opportunity to note Woody Allen’s supposed penchant for magic. For this to be the hobby ...

[Review] The Purge: Anarchy

I mostly enjoyed last year's suspense horror The Purge, despite high expectations for the premise actually going where it needed to prove more than another gene...

[Review] Dawn of the Planet of the Apes

Like the 1968 original that started all this cinematic monkey business, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes is a film that surpasses the implications of its title. M...

[NYAFF Review] The Snow White Murder Case

Based on a 2012 novel written by Kanae Minato, The Snow White Murder Case is very much a product of our time. A satirical take on the Twitter age that also to a...

[NYAFF Review] Rigor Mortis

Hong Kong horror has produced few figures more memorable than that of the hopping vampire. While its origins are rooted in folklore, it attained novelty status ...

[Review] My America

Collaborating with Baltimore-based Center Stage in My America, director Hal Hartley directs a series of monologues and performances attempting to crack a specif...

[NYAFF Review] Firestorm

For fifty minutes—minus one crazy hand-to-hand combat fight on top of a fallen metal gate suspended over two adjacent buildings' fire escapes in midair—writer/d...

[NYAFF Review] Soul

Described in equal measure as a slasher horror and psychological meditation on the soul—whether from demonic possession, reincarnation, or both—Taiwan's entry f...