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Category: Critic’s Pick
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April 01, 2025
Critic's Pick, Entertainment, Film, Kei Pritsker, Michael T. Workman, News, Reviews, The Encampments, TV show
The Encampments Review: An Inspiring, Essential Portrait of Collective Action
A group of students, primarily led by minority voices, launched encampments in protest of Columbia University’s financial ties to companies…
March 27, 2025
Critic's Pick, Entertainment, Festivals, Film, News, NYFF 2024, Reviews, Trương Minh Quý, TV show, Viet and Nam
Việt and Nam Review: A Swooning, Stirring Slow Cinema Romance
Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2024 New York Film Festival coverage. Việt and Nam opens…
March 27, 2025
Cannes 2024, Critic's Pick, Entertainment, Festivals, Film, Grand Tour, Miguel Gomes, News, Reviews, TV show
Grand Tour Review: An Enchanting Return for Miguel Gomes
Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2024 Cannes coverage. Grand Tour opens in theaters on March…
March 21, 2025
Brother Verses Brother, Critic's Pick, Entertainment, Festivals, Film, News, Reviews, SXSW 2025, TV show
SXSW Review: Francis Ford Coppola-Backed Brother Verses Brother is a Small Miracle of “Live Cinema”
A tiny miracle of a movie, Ari Gold’s deeply personal Brother Verses Brother is a whimsical musical à la John…
March 20, 2025
Alain Guiraudie, Cannes 2024, Critic's Pick, Entertainment, Festivals, Film, Misericordia, News, Reviews, TV show
Misericordia Review: A Galvanizing Ode to the Power and Subversiveness of Desire
Note: This review was originally published as part of our Cannes 2024 coverage. Misericordia will be released in theaters on…
March 07, 2025
Black Bag, Critic's Pick, Entertainment, Film, News, Reviews, Steven Soderbergh, TV show
Black Bag Review: Steven Soderbergh Delivers Slick, Barbed Spy Thriller
If a James Bond or Mission: Impossible film excised all its action scenes––save a stray explosion or gunshot––while employing a…
March 06, 2025
Critic's Pick, Entertainment, Film, In the Lost Lands, News, Paul W.S. Anderson, Reviews, TV show
In the Lost Lands Review: Paul W.S. Anderson Finds Poetry In the Fantasy Epic
“The world is a vampire” –– Billy Corgan, 1995 Before jumping directly into the action, Paul W.S. Anderson’s In the…
February 27, 2025
Berlinale 2025, Critic's Pick, Entertainment, Festivals, Film, News, Reviews, TV show, Two Times João Liberada
Berlinale Review: Two Times João Liberada Explores the Limits of Representation
Amongst the debut features populating Berlinale’s new section called Perspectives, none presented so admirably fresh take on fiction and political…
February 23, 2025
Berlinale 2025, Critic's Pick, Entertainment, Festivals, Film, Hong Sangsoo, News, Reviews, TV show, What Does That Nature Say to You
Berlinale Review: What Does That Nature Say to You is Hong Sangsoo’s Meet the Parents
The last time Hong Sangsoo failed to feature in a Berlinale program, Childish Gambino’s “This is America” was in the…
February 23, 2025
Berlinale 2025, Critic's Pick, Denis Côté, Entertainment, Festivals, Film, News, Paul, Reviews, TV show
Berlinale Review: Denis Côté’s Paul is a Strikingly Moving Portrait of a Cleaning Simp
Consider the logline: a 34-year-old, pre-diabetic, 250-pound, extremely anxious loner finds respite as a cleaning simp for dominatrices eager to…