Hopefully the circulation of this new print of Deadline will lead to some rowdy retrospective screenings once they’re safe to hold again.
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Author: Dan Scully
Dan Scully is a film buff and humorist living in a tiny apartment in Philadelphia. He hosts the podcast I Like to Movie Movie and is the proud father to twin cactuses named Riggs & Murtaugh. Also, he doesn't really mind when Batman kills people. Follow him on Twitter and Letterboxd.
Zappa (2020 – dir. Alex Winter): Philadelphia Film Festival review
Frank Zappa is a walking contradiction.
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The Killing of Two Lovers (2020 – dir. Robert Machoian): Philadelphia Film Festival review
This is one of those “the less you know, the better” movies, not because anything so surprising happens that you wouldn’t want to be spoiled,…
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Digger (dir. Georgis Grigorakis): Philadelphia Film Festival review
A very entertaining window into an unfamiliar world, filled with familiar characterizations of real, devastatingly human people.
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Night of the Kings (dir. Philippe Lacôte): Philadelphia Film Festival review
The movie rocks. I’ve never seen anything like it.
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MLK/FBI (dir. Sam Pollard): Philadelphia Film Festival review
We often forget that back in the day, civil rights leader, Martin Luther King Jr. was a very controversial figure.
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I’m Your Woman (2020 – dir. Julia Hart): Philadelphia Film Festival review
Complex characters and shocking plot twists in service of a story that brings a female flavor to a typically male-dominated subgenre
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Come True (2020 – dir. Anthony Scott Burns): Philadelphia Film Festival review
Immediately striking, and consistently spooky for almost the entirety of its runtime
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The Witmans (2020 – dir. David Peterson): Philadelphia Film Festival review
The Witman family has gone through a tragedy so unimaginable that it couldn’t possibly be written into fiction.
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Sound of Metal (2019 – dir. Darius Marder): Philadelphia Film Festival review
A slower, quieter movie than the marketing would have you believe, but that’s ultimately a good thing
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Gunda (2020 – dir. Victor Kosakovkiy): Philadelphia Film Festival review
Who knew seeing an adolescent pig pee for a very, very long time could be such high art
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Banksy Most Wanted (2020 – dir. Seamus Haley, Laurent Richard, Aurélia Rouvier): Philadelphia Film Festival review
We all know who Banksy is, it’s just that we don’t know who, specifically, Banksy is.
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Come Play (dir. Jacob Chase): Film review
Next in a long line of “horror short gets expanded to feature length” projects
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Kubrick by Kubrick (2020 – dir. Gregory Monro): Philadelphia Film Festival review
A mysterious figure, top to bottom, Kubrick is a man from another time.
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Jumbo (2020 – dir. Zoé Wittick): Philadelphia Film Festival review
Jumbo manages to accurately depict the feeling of romance as well as accurately describe the feeling of fetishization.
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Miracle Fishing (2020 – dir. Miles Hargrove & Christopher Birge): Philadelphia Film Festival review
An intense story that resembles what we see in a standard thriller, but being real life
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New Order (2020 – dir. Michel Franco): Philadelphia Film Festival review
This movie is going to upset a lot of people. Good.
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Apples (2020 – dir. Christos Nikou): Philadelphia Film Festival review
A mostly quiet tale, carried by the human performances and minimalist plot
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White Lie (2019 – dir. Yonah Lewis & Calvin Thomas): Philadelphia Film Festival review
Ever meet one of those people who, no matter what the situation, cannot help but lie about even the tiniest things?
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Borat Subsequent Moviefilm (dir. Jason Woliner): Moviefilm review
Borat Subsequent Moviefilm is hilarious to the point of incapacitation.
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