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At the DC/DOX Film Festival: Paradise Crowded, Justice Delayed, Borders Wired

July 17, 2026
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DC/DOX spotlights documentaries that confront the human cost of tourism, policing, and surveillance—alongside bold experiments in nonfiction form.

Film Review: “The Odyssey” — Twilight of the Gods

July 15, 2026
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Director Christopher Nolan’s ambitious and challenging epic is an ode to the end of civilization.

Arts Remembrance: Actor Sam Neill — Charm, Gravity, and a Hint of Mischief

July 15, 2026
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Handsome yet not easily typecast, Sam Neill built a quietly remarkable career playing heroes, villains, lovers, weirdos, and everything in between.

Tribeca Film Festival, Part Two: Addicts on Chelsea (MA) Streets, Love and Death at Sea, and Micronations 

July 10, 2026
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At the Tribeca Film Festival, two dramas stood out among the narrative films—stark, street-level tales of addiction and a wintry queer love story turned murder mystery set on a Canadian ship.

Film Review: Married to Amazement — “Mary Oliver: Saved by the Beauty of the World”

July 5, 2026
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This documentary about poet Mary Oliver is a moving study of solitude, partnership, and the stubborn power of wonder.

Tribeca Film Festival — Docs on Dictator Cuisine, TikTok’s Ups and Downs, and The Killer Behind “Cruising”

July 4, 2026
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The Tribeca Film Festival is usually best represented by its outliers. This year, a few films earned that status.

Film Review: “Romeria” — An Intimate “Odyssey”

July 2, 2026
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Carla Simón’s dreamlike family drama merges mother and daughter, past and present, in a moving search for identity.

Film Review: “Jackass: Best and Last” — A Eulogy for Shitheads

June 30, 2026
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A ragged farewell that mixes new stunts with archival scraps as Johnny Knoxville and his merry band of masochists age out of self-destruction.

Film Review: “Mare’s Nest” — Don DeLillo Gets Played

June 25, 2026
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This ambitious adaptation finds its power in images, not in the novelist’s dense and elusive language.

Film Review: Stalin’s Labyrinth — Blind Justice in “Two Prosecutors”

June 23, 2026
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The power of Ukrainian director Sergei Loznitsa’s film stems from its deep repugnance at an acceptance of the aesthetic and moral poverty of dictatorship.

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