This British film set on the island of Jersey is a stunning feature debut by Michael Pearce. Jessie Buckley plays Moll, […]
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“Whiteness can incinerate a family with the heat equal to a bomb,” intones narrator Travis Wilkerson, the filmmaker and subject of […]
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In a year that gave us The 15:17 to Paris and Gotti, the claim that the most heinous cinematic crime committed […]
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Rather than acting as a release valve on the past few years, 2018 continued to increase the pressure, as American culture […]
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If there was ever something to make me realize that pasty dudes talking about movies on Twitter wasn’t indicative of the […]
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The Mark Duplass-produced Unlovable is a refreshingly honest depiction of a woman’s road to recovery from sex addiction, based on writer […]
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Two teenage girls, one a self-admitted sociopath, the other a spoiled schemer, conspire to commit murder in Cory Finley’s brilliantly incisive […]
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This year saw a phoenix-like rebirth of the elemental spirit we call Nicolas Cage, with the actor rising from the ashes […]
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In the midst of his Elisabeth Moss trilogy (consisting of Listen Up Philip, Queen of Earth, and Her Smell), indie auteur […]
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In an alternate (and, frankly, better) universe, Augustine Frizzell’s Never Goin’ Back would have been one of the biggest comedy hits […]
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In The Favourite, Queen Anne (Olivia Colman) stuffs a piece of cake into her face, then promptly vomits it back into […]
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It’s fitting that the most iconic image from the films of David Cronenberg is the exploding head from Scanners (1981). Cronenberg’s […]
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