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The gospel according to woman

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There is an old saying that you should never meet your heroes, they may disappoint you. The new Belgian comedy from writer/director Jaco Van...

Look what the cat dragged in

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There never has been, and there never will be, a movie like Roar. Even the tagline is one in a million, “No animals were harmed in the making of this film. Seventy cast and crew members were.” If that doesn’t pique your interest, then you ought to have your pulse ...

Part of me, part of you

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The women are on the run. One is a sheltered housewife married to a pig of a man. The other is a waitress hiding...

Mary, Mary, what you going to name that pretty little baby?

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The infamous Beale Street belongs to the city of Memphis, Tennessee, but every city has a Beale Street. So claimed writer James Baldwin, born...

Voice to the voiceless

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Has decency become a sin?” Ibrahima Dieng cries. On his knees, Ibrahima holds out his empty hands in mock offering. The world has stripped...

Snooze cruise

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What’s your level of interest here? It’s been 15 years and 30-plus features — not to mention TV and streaming series — since Iron...

He turned the engine, but the engine didn’t turn

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Lanky, hulking and almost always stooped, Scott Carlin (Pete Davidson) is 24 years old, jobless, directionless, and living in the same Staten Island home...

‘The mystery of Buster’

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Dana Stevens on Buster Keaton and her new book, ‘Camera Man’ 

‘And the nominees are…’

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The nominees for the 95th Academy Awards are in: 54 movies competing in 23 categories. The headlines already belong to the genre-smashing Everything Everywhere...

The 44th Denver Film Festival returns with in-person and at home...

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What does home mean to you? That’s the question Flee director Jonas Poher Rasmussen poses to Amin Nawabi, an Afghan refugee on the eve of marrying his...

Truth at every level

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An object is not without context, and a perspective is not without a point of view. For British philosopher Alan Watts, this was a...

Such great heights

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Great movies don’t require a signature shot, but it helps when they have one. What would Vertigo be without that dizzying dolly zoom? The...