Baltimore is my hometown, so sure, that matters to me, but Baltimore is not unique. So many of our cities need better options. Let Charm City lead the way, not in homicides, but in ideas for solutions.

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Director Adam Weingrod, in his feature-documentary debut, gives us a collection of the best representatives of our species.

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This illuminating exploration of gender follows five individuals in the Netherlands who identify as "genderqueer" and thereby defy the heretofore accepted male/female dichotomy.

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Thank you, Mister Rogers, for a wonderful life, and thank you, Mister Neville, for this wonderful movie.

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Winner of the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival, Nancy tells the tale of a thirtysomething woman with a tenuous grip on reality who convinces herself that her sad life is not the one she was meant to live

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Featuring a wealth of great movie clips, archival footage and interviews (beyond Waters), the movie offers a fascinating take on the twisted world of morality-based legislation, provoking horror and derision

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I met with writer/director Matthew Porterfield on Saturday, May 5, 2018, at the Maryland Film Festival (MdFF). We discussed his most recent feature – his fourth – Sollers Point (which I also reviewed), set in Baltimore, hometown to the both of […]

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A hard-hitting examination of angry male self-destructiveness, and the lonely dead end to which it leads, the film takes no narrative prisoners, leaving us without a soothing catharsis

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