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Sin eater

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The man sits alone in his room. His name is Narvel Roth (Joel Edgerton) and he is a gardener, but he might as well...

The surrealistic Godfather

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Birds of Passage (Pájaros de verano) — from Colombian directors Cristina Gallego and Ciro Guerra — is a masterpiece. Go see it.  Need more? Very...

A slice of ‘Ninja’

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The extraordinarily violent Ninja Assassin opens with a tough guy Yakuza gang leader having a tattoo inked on his back by a mysterious old man who talks about the four noble professions, the five rings, and other cliché Japanese cultural mumbo-jumbo. A henchman ...

On the range in the gig economy

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A portrait of two freelance range riders in ‘Bitterbrush’

Storytelling for a cause

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Herschel Goldberg wants you to see Liyana. “The core message is something that everybody needs to see,” Goldberg says. “Or feel. It’s more about the...

A boy’s best friend is his cow

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The 1925 Buster Keaton classic Go West opens, “Some people travel through life making friends wherever they go, while others — just travel through life...

Not just a voice, a resounding roar

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The history of cinema is littered with career defining debuts. From Orson Welles’ seismic Citizen Kane to François Truffaut’s autobiographical The 400 Blows; from Terrence Malick’s poetic Badlands to Martin Scorsese’s raw Whose That Knocking On My Door? They don’t ...

Good old-fashioned art cinema

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His name is Martin Eden (Luca Marinelli), and he calls no nation home. He’s a sailor by trade — the kind mothers warn their...

Tight pants and raw power

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For better or for worse, rock ‘n’ roll has always been a commodity. Before there can be a movement, there must be equipment, electricity...

Like life, only more so

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The Mimesis Documentary Festival returns

Bag it up

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A really good documentary isn’t about whatever it looks like it’s about. It’s about people.I don’t mean nature docs, which are actually about nature. I mean films like Ready, Set, Bag!, an independent documentary that follows eight competitors in the National Grocers...

Cinema without borders

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CU-Boulder’s International Film Series isn’t just Boulder’s first art-house series; it also features one of the best programs out there. From international sensations to...