I watched (and reviewed) Maiken Baird’s latest documentary, Edward Said: Between Worlds, at the 2026 Toronto International Film Festival. The film is an engaging and thorough profile of the late, great academic and proud Palestinian advocate, author of books such […]

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I watched (and reviewed) Alex Huston Fischer and Eleanor Wilson’s new film, Wicker, at the 2026 Middleburg Film Festival. The movie stars, among others, Olivia Colman, Elizabeth Debicki, Peter Dinklage, and Alexander Skarsgård. Set in a medieval village, Wicker follows […]

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Impressively ambitious in scope, Josh Fox’s humbly titled The Welcome Table finds the environmental activist-filmmaker-writer-musician on a globetrotting journey across six continents, spotlighting the stories of climate refugees. The Oscar-nominated multihyphenate (2010’s Gasland) then brings this multicultural bunch together around […]

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In his new documentary, Holding Liat, director Brandon Kramer follows an American-Israeli family in the middle of the worst crisis imaginable: the kidnapping of relatives on October 7, 2023, by members of the terrorist organization Hamas. The titular Liat Atzili […]

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Pulp fans are a patient people. We’ve waited years between scant albums and tours. Their most recent album More, is only their 8th LP since they formed as teenagers in Sheffield, England in 1978. It was their first new album […]

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The Scout opens this Friday at Film Forum in NYC. Below is Matt Delman’s interview with Director Paula Gonzalez-Nasser and star Mimi Davila, edited for length and clarity. You can also read his full review here. Hammer to Nail: I […]

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In The Smell of Apples, South African director John Trengrove examines the dawning consciousness of an Afrikaner boy as he begins to realize the horrors of the apartheid system. An adaptation of the 1993 book by Mark Behr, the movie […]

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With his latest film, Wild Wild East, Polish director Jan Holoubek has combined the Western with a noirish thriller and thrown the mix into the middle of World War II. The year is 1943, and a mysterious stranger rides into […]

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“Enjoy it those of you who are alive. The world is fantastic.” — (at the time) oldest person Maria Branyas Morera [via social media] A decade in the making—from July 2015 to July 2025—or a lifetime. Several lifetimes, admittedly! Individually […]

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In 1989, Julie Thayer traveled to the Swiss Alps looking for something few people would willingly seek: the destruction of her own ego. There, she joined U.G. Krishnamurti, the radical Indian anti-guru who rejected virtually every convention associated with spiritual […]

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