Review: Best Intentions
[For the next two weeks, we’ll be covering select films from Making Waves: New Romanian Cinema. Now in its seventh year, this film ...
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Review: Of Snails and Men
[For the next two weeks, we’ll be covering select films from Making Waves: New Romanian Cinema. Now in its seventh year, this film ...
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Review: Beware of Mr. Baker
Beware of Mr. Baker is like the anti-Searching for Sugar Man. The latter chronicled Sixto Rodriguez, an obscure Detroit folk singer who inexplicably ...
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Review: Zipper: Coney Island’s Last Wild Ride
When I was in grad school, a lot of my peers said that they wrote about place. By that they meant people’s attachments ...
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DOC NYC Review: A Girl and a Gun
[For the next week and half, we will be covering DOC NYC 2012, New York City’s premier documentary film festival. Check back with ...
Review: The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2
There’s no real way to predict what you’re getting when watching one of the Twilight films. You either get a surprisingly corny and ...
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Review: Wreck-It Ralph
Almost immediately, there’s a weird dissonance in Wreck-it Ralph, Disney’s love-letter to the 80s/90s age of arcades. From frame one, where the film ...
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Review: Informant
For most of America, Brandon Darby is not a household name. There are probably pockets of the South which recognize him, but in ...
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Reel Asian Review: Seeking Asian Female
[Flixist will cover select films playing at the Reel Asian Film Festival, which runs in Toronto from November 6th through the 11th, and ...
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Review: Cloud Atlas
I tore through Cloud Atlas this past week in preparation for seeing the film, and I want to dedicate this entire introduction to motivating ...
Review: Silent Hill: Revelations 3D
Silent Hill is one of the favorite video game franchises of all time. Sure, the last couple installments haven’t lived up to their predecessors, and destructible weaponry ...
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Review: Fun Size
Nickelodeon is known for their kid-friendly shows and movies. There’s always been jokes aimed at adults nestled here or there, but rarely do ...