Gillian Robespierre makes her directorial debut with Obvious Child, a sweet and funny romantic comedy in which the pair of lovers must cope with getting an …
Archives for June 2014
An intriguing stranger is bad news in the entirely original Borgman
A hobo and a charmer, Camiel Borgman (a restrained and compelling Jan Bijvoet) may seem sympathetic at the start of writer-director Alex van Warmerdam’s bizarre …
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‘Ivory Tower’: why US college financing is broken
Like its Sundance competitor “Fed Up”, which tackled rising obesity rates, Andrew Rossi’s documentary, “Ivory Tower”, takes on another major problem in American …
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Reviews: pulp thriller Cold in July and disappointing LGBT drama Test
Every city has a cinema where movies go to die. In San Francisco, Landmark’s Opera Plaza Cinemas takes that honour: with five tiny screens and sound so tinny …
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