Beyond ‘Wendell & Wild’ and ‘Pinocchio,’ Netflix had a third stop-motion animated movie in 2022 that deserves another look.
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Director Bianca Stigter turns three minutes of home movie footage into a powerful feature documentary about a community soon to be murdered in the Holocaust, and an essayistic meditation on the moving image – one of 2022’s best films.
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Our mini-reviews of ‘Nightride,’ ‘Teenage Emotions,’ ‘I’m Totally Fine,’ and more of the year’s best straight-to-home-theater fare.
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One of the best independent films of 2022 was Albert Birney and Kentucker Audley’s paean to the power of dreams.
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It turns out that a movie genre known for aimless characters and awkward interactions is perfect for telling stories about the holiday season.
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As our yuletide movie week comes to a close, we recommend (well, at least for its first hour) Ingmar Bergman’s familial epic, now streaming on HBO Max and the Criterion Channel.
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Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Netflix original is a transparent ‘8 1/2’ and ‘All that Jazz’ riff, filled with both striking images and clumsy metaphors.
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Despite little fanfare, ‘Silent Night’ is a sharp (if melancholy) holiday film, capturing a Christmas party spent on the brink of humanity’s destruction.
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Twelve years after its premiere, Jalmari Helander’s feature debut remains one of the most pleasant surprises in contemporary horror comedy.
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Our mini-reviews of ‘The Apology,’ ‘The Christmas Tapes,’ ‘Mistletoe Time Machine,’ and more of this year’s straight-to-VOD holiday fare.
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Did a low-budget sci-fi noir inadvertently start the boom of Christmas action movies in the 1980s?
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A look back at Abel Ferrara’s gritty and prophetic Christmas-time crime thriller – a holiday fable as only he could tell it.
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