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[Review] Dean Slater: Resident Advisor

There was little chance I'd ever truly enjoy the Sander Brothers' debut feature Dean Slater: Resident Advisor, so the real challenge became seeing if it could a...

[Review] Closed Circuit

Director John Crowley is a man with a good eye for picking dynamic screenplays. His feature film debut Intermission is a fun Irish romp, while his sophomore eff...

[Review] Thérèse

Only a 1927 novel can get away with its titular character yearning for a marriage built on land and stability instead of love for no other reason than to quiet ...

[Review] Una Noche

If people didn’t know about the 90-mile expanse of Caribbean waters between Havana, Cuba and Key West, Florida before Elián González in 1999, they certainly did...

[Review] The Grandmaster

As The Grandmaster wheels into its third act and the star-crossed male & female of a decades-old unrequited love begin their final exchanges, Wong Kar-wai m...

[Review] Abandoned Mine

Actor-turned-director Jeff Chamberlain’s Abandoned Mine is harmless enough, which is a major letdown considering this is a horror/thriller. The premise is simpl...

[Review] 3 Days of Normal

The romantic comedy is derivative as a point of fact—there are only so many ways an unsuspecting boy and girl can meet and thaw before falling desperately in lo...