Review
I enjoyed God’s Own Country for its realistic style and its unflinching vision of intimacy.
Read MoreScripts like The Hearing also provide an optic through which to examine our own nation’s problems.
Read MoreSoft Thresholds is about opening up physical boundaries: an elephant village is one of a number of the firm’s marvelous examples of this commitment.
Read MoreLike going to Mecca, shouldn’t every committed cinephile get to the Carthage Film Festival once in a lifetime?
Read MoreWhat we don’t know about the brain and the heart drives this at times unwieldy, yet ultimately satisfying, theatrical work.
Read MoreHilbig’s prose demands sentence-by sentence commitment. It gravitates to the dark and dense, and occasionally surreal.
Read MoreIt always takes a while for the culture to catch up with the best and brightest; what’s on the cutting edge today becomes tomorrow’s gold standard.
Read MoreFilmmaker Salvo Cuccia packs a lot into this tightly framed 2014 documentary on Frank Zappa.
Read MoreThe irony implied by Junk after the curtain goes down is the realization that white collar crime does pay.
Read MoreDorothy Mackaill is riveting as Gilda, a wronged working woman turned prostitute in the no-options depths of Depression-era New Orleans.
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