Review
Like the films of the 2000s, Senior Year is filled with chuckles but eschews substance.
Nazareno is bright, often joyous, and easy on the ears. That ought to count for something.
Violinist Lea Birringer’s performance of the Christian Sinding selections are impressive. Her Mendelssohn Violin Concerto, though, is missing drive, excitement, and passion.
Personable but bracing, Sea Sick delivers an essential message: not only about the damage that is being done to the oceans, but the horrors that are coming down the pike.
What could have been a fantastic twenty-minute short becomes a tedious slog as a stretched-out feature.
A welcome homecoming for a new 4K digital restoration of a landmark independent film that’s attained cult status.
Africa’s Struggle for Its Art usefully charts the prequel to current campaigns pressuring for the return of colonial plunder.
Again and again, we are taken in The Will to See to places where regular reporters never venture, and certainly not filmgoers.

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