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Night and Day
Night and Day Dir: Hong Sang Soo Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 IFC Films 144 Minutes Hong Sang Soo’s films sneak up on you. Their slow boil comes from their deliberate structures, and the rewarding,
Read More »The House of the Devil
The House of the Devil Dir: Ti West Rating: 2.0/5.0 Magnet Releasing 93 Minutes Oh, you silly Satanists, it’s as if you have a one-track mind. I mean seriously, what movie about Satanic cults
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Antichrist
Antichrist Dir: Lars von Trier Rating: 4.5/5.0 IFC Films 109 Minutes In Stig Björkman’s Tranceformer: A Portrait of Lars von Trier, Lars von Trier launches the documentary by proclaiming with a malicious grin, “I’ll
Read More »Araya
Araya Dir: Margot Benacerraf Rating: 3.0/5.0 Milestone Films 90 Minutes The 1959 Cannes Film Festival boasted an impressive selection of films such as Francois Truffaut’s debut The 400 Blows and Black Orpheus by Marcel
Read More »Ong Bak 2
Ong Bak 2 Dir: Tony Jaa & Panna Rittikrai Rating: 2.0/5.0 Magnet Releasing 98 Minutes Considering how much praise is lavished upon Thai action cinema for its raw, audacious filmmaking, constant placing of bodies
Read More »Good Hair
Good Hair Dir: Jeff Stilson Rating: 3.0/5.0 HBO Films 95 Minutes At first glance, it would seem that a documentary about something innocuous as women’s hair would make for a trivial and silly viewing
Read More »Rembrandt’s J’Accuse
Rembrandt’s J’Accuse Dir: Peter Greenaway Rating: 4.5/5.0 Film Forum 108 Minutes Rembrandt’s van Rijn’s “The Nightwatch” is at present the world’s fourth most famous painting, following, in consecutive order, the “Mona Lisa”, “The Last
Read More »Cirque du Freak: The Vampire’s Assistant
Cirque du Freak: The Vampire’s Assistant Dir: Paul Weitz Rating: 2.0/5.0 Universal Pictures 108 Minutes Some free advice, people who made Cirque du Freak: the Vampire’s Assistant: More freaks, less vampires. Is there anything
Read More »New York, I Love You
New York, I Love You Dirs: Various Rating: 3.5/ 5.0 Vivendi Entertainment 110 Minutes The fictional travelogue has experienced resurgence in today’s cinema. Films about cities are nothing new, but with the release of
Read More »Visual Acoustics
Visual Acoustics Dir: Eric Bricker Rating: 3.5/5.0 Arthouse Films 84 Minutes Visual Acoustics is a documentary about a man whose impact was much bigger than his fame. Julius Shulman, who died just three months
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