Review: Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk
I can say this about Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk: Ang Lee and his cast have their hearts in the right place. Adapted ...
Tag: New York Film Festival 2016
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Review: My Entire High School Sinking into the Sea
There are so many possibilities in My Entire High School Sinking Into the Sea, the directorial debut of indie comics artist Dash Shaw. ...
54th New York Film Festival starts Friday, runs September 30-October 16
The 54th New York Film Festival kicks off this Friday, September 30th and runs until Sunday, October 16th. One of the biggest end-of-year ...
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Review: The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman’s Portrait Photography
The B-Side is an atypical Errol Morris documentary. He doesn’t use the Interrotron at all, his tool that allows interviewees to stare directly ...
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Review: Moonlight
I don’t want to (and am not going to) make this review about the fact that Moonlight is a film about African Americans. ...
Review: I, Daniel Blake
Bureaucracies make great villains. Faceless and absurd, they operate in such nefarious ways and are perfect machines for dehumanization. Bureaucracies are reliably inefficient, ...
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Review: Abacus: Small Enough to Jail
Steve James may be incapable of directing a bad documentary. His films includes Hoop Dreams, The Interrupters, and Life Itself. With Abacus: Small Enough ...
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Review: Fire at Sea
Sometimes I’ll see a movie and that makes me shake my head and say, “Okay, yeah, I get it”. These sorts of movies ...
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DOC NYC Review: 13TH
13TH feels like a culmination of Ava DuVernay’s career to this point. The documentary brings together the racial and social history of Selma, ...
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Review: Elle
Elle has been billed as a rape-comedy, but that’s a misnomer. It’s a comedy in the classical sense given the events of the ...
Review: Gimme Danger
Iggy Pop and Jim Jarmusch sound like an unlikely pairing. One’s the primal frontman of proto-punk legends The Stooges, the other’s a mellow, ...
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Review: Paterson
Jim Jarmusch’s Paterson is work of subtle optimism. It’s a gentle film, kind and generous, funny, too. Watching the movie, I sensed Jarmusch ...