Seventh Row

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Film Reviews

Here you will find every film review we've written. These include: festival films, new releases, and older films.

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Hot Docs ’19: Conviction, Buddy, Willie, and more

Our capsule reviews highlight six of the standouts at the 2019 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival: Conviction, Buddies, Willie, In My Blood It Runs, We Will Stand Up, and Push. Watch out for them as they travel the festival circuit and arrive on home viewing platforms.

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Rendez-Vous with French Cinema 2019: Highlights

Here’s a look at some of the best films screening at the 2019 Rendez-Vous with French Cinema in NYC, including Premiére Année (The Freshman), Keep an Eye Out!, and Raising Colours. Every year, the Film Society of Lincoln Centre curates some of the best of French Cinema in the last year for the Rendez-Vous with […]

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Hidden gems at the Glasgow Film Festival: Diane, Pause

Orla wraps up her time at the 2019 Glasgow Film Festival by spotlighting three of the best films that screened there: Diane, Pause, and We are the weirdos. Discovering great films at a smaller film festival is a harder but far more satisfying experience than it is at a larger one. There’s a lot to […]

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Sundance 2019: Advocate, Bedlam, and more

Our capsule reviews spotlight three documentaries and two Scandinavian features we enjoyed at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, including Advocate, Bedlam, Sonja: The White Swan, and Midnight Traveler. Watch out for them as they travel the festival circuit and arrive on home viewing platforms.

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Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am and Miles Davis: Birth of Cool

Sundance continues its mission to feature stories about important African American historical figures with worthy docs Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am and Miles Davis: Birth of Cool. Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am In the last few years, Sundance has screened multiple biography documentaries about important literary and historical figures in 20th America that […]