“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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Category: Philadelphia Film Festival
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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Mass (dir. Fran Kranz): Philadelphia Film Festival review
Mass is a movie that feels like a play. The basic gist is that four individuals are sitting around a table discussing the fallout from…
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Red Rocket (dir. Sean Baker): Philadelphia Film Festival review
Sean Baker has built a career making films that shed a light on fringe communities
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The French Dispatch (dir. Wes Anderson): Philadelphia Film Festival review
No matter what you think, you don’t have Wes Anderson pegged.
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The Sadness (dir. Rob Jabbaz): Philadelphia Film Festival review
I didn’t expect to have my stomach turned in any notable way.
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The Novice (dir. Lauren Hadaway): Philadelphia Film Festival review
A basic description of The Novice would be “Whiplash, but with rowing instead of drumming.”
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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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