The Gravedigger's Wife follows a Somali gravedigger's desperate search for funds to finance life-saving surgery for his wife. Read Orla Smith's interview …
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Here you will find every film review we've written. These include: festival films, new releases, and older films.
The Gravedigger's Wife follows a Somali gravedigger's desperate search for funds to finance life-saving surgery for his wife. Read Orla Smith's interview …
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Ben Foster gives a complex, layered performance in Barry Levinson's The Survivor, a film that serves as Holocaust Trauma 101. In 1999, Barry Levinson …
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Mélanie Laurent's The Mad Women's Ball suffers in comparison to Alice Winocour's Augustine (2011), which tackles the same story with more psychological …
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Benediction may be Terence Davies's gayest film yet: a character study of a WWI poet who keeps trying to reinvent himself and find solace. Jack Lowden was on …
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Thyrone Tommy's feature debut, Learn to Swim, is all vibe with little substance but it nails the milieu of twentysomething jazz musicians in Canada. Click …
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Barry Avrich's documentary Oscar Peterson: Black + White barely scratches the surface of the great jazz pianist's life, music, and legacy. It’s hard to …
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