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The latest on cinema in Philadelphia, including Philadelphia films, independent cinema, and Philly film festivals.
THE HOLDOVERS (dir. Alexander Payne): Philadelphia Film Festival review
Alexander Payne, purveyor of fine vibes, might be softening up.
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FINGERNAILS (dir. Christos Nikou): Philadelphia Film Festival review
Fingernails beckons anyone who has ever claimed love is torture and calls their bluff.
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See How They Run (dir. Tom George): Film review
Just as the theater company is about to celebrate their 100th stage performance of Agatha Christie’s “The Mousetrap,” a body turns up backstage.
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Vengeance (dir. B.J. Novak): Film review
Vengeance walks a pretty confident tightrope as a crime-focused, West Texas-set black comedy with more substance than a deep-fried Twinkie. It never really comes across as…
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Flux Gourmet (dir. Peter Strickland): Film review
Peter Strickland’s Flux Gourmet is another auteur-flavored oddity all the way. Capturing the senses whether it’s through sound mixing in film production (“Berberian Sound Studio”),…
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Good Luck to You, Leo Grande (dir. Sophie Hyde): Film review
There are plenty of movies about sex, but not enough movies about sexual pleasure involving women of a certain age.
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Fire Island (dir. Andrew Ahn): Film review
Pack your poppers, lube, and rainbow bikini briefs — director Andrew Ahn’s Fire Island takes us to the gay mecca off the South Shore of…
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Pleasure (Dir. Ninja Thyberg): Film review
They always say, “it’s not what you know, but who you know.” That might be true in any industry where there’s room for growth, and…
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Hatching (Dir. Hanna Bergholm): Film review
A satire of suburban ennui melded with a girlhood drama has never morphed more seamlessly into a body-horror monster movie.
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The Northman (dir. Robert Eggers): Film review
“The Northman” might be Robert Eggers’ most accessible film and yet it never compromises itself as a Robert Eggers film, complete with old-world authenticity and forbidding weirdness. I
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Dual (dir. Riley Stearns): Film review
Not everyone will be on filmmaker Riley Stearns’ oddball wavelength, but it’s the viewer’s choice. In the case of droll, tightly-scripted sci-fi black comedy “Dual,” they’ll wish they could be. In what is very much from Stearns’ voice, the film is dryly comic, offbeat, andvanchored by dual performances from Karen Gillan that are subtly disparate but equally deadpan and finely tuned.
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You Won’t Be Alone (dir. Goran Stolevski): Film Review
“You Won’t Be Alone,” Goran Stolevski’s writing-directing feature debut, is something special. More than just “arthouse horror,” Stolevski’s film is a haunting meditation on identity, humanity, and how everything is relative, but also a sensory experience with some bloody innards. It’s unsettling, yet challenging and magical, and if you just let it wash over you, the spell is rewarding.
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The First Step (dir. – Brandon Kramer): Philadelphia Film Festival review
“Are you still a communist?” yells an edgy CPAC attendee as Van Jones passes by. “You’ll have to watch my show to find out,” laughs…
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Catch the Fair One (dir. Josef Kubota Wladyka): Philadelphia Film Festival review
I love boxing, and I love boxing movies, so I knew I couldn’t miss a movie starring and co-written by real-life boxer Kali Reis. Catch…
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Agnes (dir. Mickey Reece): Philadelphia Film Festival review
With all concessions which must be made for a movie like Agnes in place, namely that it was made rather quickly and on the cheap,…
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Beyond the Infinite Two Minutes (dir. Junta Yamaguchi): Philadelphia Film Festival review
Time travel is my favorite storytelling device in existence. It’s a great way to explore a wealth of themes, and as a concept it’s just…
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Petite Maman (dir. Céline Sciamma): Philadelphia Film Festival review
I thought I’d never forget what it was like to be a kid, and I thought I hadn’t forgotten, but then I saw Petite Maman…
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One Second (dir. Yimou Zhang): Philadelphia Film Festival review
Every year I try to see a movie, picked at random, for which I have no information. A total blind date with a film. Sometimes…
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Mother Schmuckers (dir. Harpo Guit, Lenny Guit): Philadelphia Film Festival review
Somewhere between Tom Green, Quentin Dupieux, and that shithead kid across the street who always seems to be getting in trouble exists Mother Schmuckers, a…
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