Film

Film Review: The Lure — Surreal Mermaid Horror Musical

March 16, 2017
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The Lure is often violent and disturbing, but its unapologetic strangeness make it one of the most memorable foreign films in recent years.

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Film Review: “My Life as a Zucchini”—A French Fable of Loss and Belonging

March 14, 2017
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Children’s connections to one another are layered and complex, and their understanding of the adult world more sophisticated than we usually allow.

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Film Review: “Mr. Gaga” — An Illuminating Documentary About Dance

March 12, 2017
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Mr. Gaga is a sensitive and engaging documentary of an Israeli artist.

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Film Review: Marcel Pagnol’s Marseille Trilogy — Three memorable Creations: “Marius” (1931), “Fanny” (1932), and “César” (1936)

March 10, 2017
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Marcel Pagnol’s great Marseille Trilogy is a tragicomic love story set on the bustling, sun-drenched docks of a Mediterranean port.

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Film Review: “XX”—Horror Anthology, Female Version

March 6, 2017
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I was looking forward to XX because it was horror, it was an anthology, and because all four pieces were directed by women.

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Film Review: “Kedi” — Caring for a City of Cats

February 28, 2017
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This endearing but unsentimental film explores the myriad connections that many Istanbul residents have to their feline neighbors.

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Film Review: “The Red Turtle” — A Singular Talent

February 24, 2017
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The Red Turtle is a poem to individual visual artistry and not to the anonymous machinery of technology.

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Film Review: “Toni Erdmann” — Humor is Tedium’s Balm

February 18, 2017
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Toni Erdmann gently but somewhat darkly reminds us that living life in the fast lane means missing out on its slower, humbler pleasures.

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Film Review: “The Salesman” — The Limits of Empathy

February 9, 2017
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Director Asghar Farhadi’s most stringent judgments generally fall upon members of his own sophisticated, worldly cohort.

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Film Review: “The Autopsy of Jane Doe” — Death Becomes Her

February 3, 2017
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At first,The Autopsy of Jane Doe comes off as a sort of small town crime thriller, but it slowly evolves into what feels like a bonafide horror film.

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