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Where Are You Taking Me?
An expressionist snapshot of a fractured country, Kimi Takesue’s Where Are You Taking Me? captures modern Uganda at the ground level, cataloging the rhythms and lifestyles of its people across a diffuse, unnarrated 71
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Tim & Eric’s Billion Dollar Movie
In my years as a film critic– and before that, as a film student– I’ve seen an unhealthy number of incredibly fucked up films. I’ve been exposed to In the Realm of the Senses
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This Is Not a Film
Regardless of its technical merits, This Is Not a Film may well be the most important film ever to stake out the meaning of film itself as a genuine force, not merely an instrument
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In Darkness
As insensitive as this is going to sound, the very existence of a film like In Darkness elicits an important artistic question: do we need another film about the Holocaust? Obviously I don’t want
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Undefeated
The title of Undefeated is misleading, for the North Memphis high-school football team profiled doesn’t even make it past the first game of the season without losing. But perhaps the title applies not to
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On the Ice
At its most basic, On the Ice is a not unfamiliar story. An accident happens. Someone dies. Bonds of friendship are tested as guilt builds and the questions keep coming. But what makes director
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The Turin Horse
While trying to explain the plot of Hungarian filmmaker Béla Tarr’s newest release The Turin Horse to one of my roommates, the words coming out of my mouth sounded something like this: “So, this
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The Miners’ Hymns
The delivery system for a film is generally pretty simple: it’s shot, the image captured and stored, then projected onto a screen of some sort. With Bill Morrison’s experimental efforts, the process gets a
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Declaration of War
There is a general expectation that a film’s style will fall in line with the seriousness of its subject matter. If the material is light, the film will trundle along joyously, brisk and bright
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Miss Bala
Roaring its story to life from the hard sparks of the ongoing Mexican drug wars, Gerardo Naranjo’s Miss Bala demonstrates how easily an unremarkable life can slip into pure dismay. The film opens on
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