Tribeca Capsule Review: Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?
Here’s an interesting fact: Taiwan is among the most gay-friendly countries in Asia. Gay marriage is not explicitly legal (a bill attempting to ...
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Review: Let the Fire Burn
In 1985 there was a tragic stand-off between the extremist Africa-American group MOVE and the city of Philadelphia. At the end, 11 members ...
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Tribeca Review: What Richard Did
Pull quotes are sometimes picked in order to achieve the greatest possible hyperbolic effect. In the trailer for Lenny Abrahamson’s What Richard Did, ...
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Tribeca Review: Odayaka
After the 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan, I wound up streaming NHK all day for a few days to find out what ...
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Tribeca Review: Run and Jump
Run and Jump features a bit of semi-stunt casting that got me interested in the movie: the film features Saturday Night Live‘s Will ...
Review: From Up on Poppy Hill
The non-fantasy based Studio Ghibli films are pretty limited. In fact if we rule out My Neighbors the Yamadas considering its animation style and ...
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Tribeca Review: Bending Steel
I believe that the definition of definition is reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be ...
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Review: It’s a Disaster
There seems to be more and more movies about the end of the world these days. Maybe it’s a reflection of how vulnerable ...
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Review: Midnight’s Children
Salman Rushidie’s 1981 novel Midnight’s Children is his most beloved book. It was hailed as the best recipient of the Booker Prize in ...
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Review: Trance
[This review was originally posted last week for the UK release of Trance. It has been reposted to coincide with the US release ...
Review: Byzantium
Imagine you are in a large store and off in the distance you see a quilt. It’s an intriguing design, and you walk ...
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Review: G.I. Joe: Retaliation
If there’s a better franchise out there to deliver mindless action than G.I. Joe than it’s going to destroy the world. G.I. Joe was designed ...