After exploring the lingering effects of World War II in his documentary Occupied City last year, Steve McQueen takes on the subject once again in his war thriller Blitz. The film, which will premiere Closing Night at the New York […]

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A highly stylized horror film that pays direct homage to the tactile cinema of Italian director Dario Argento, Peter Strickland’s In Fabric is rich in evocative atmospherics, if sometimes poor in structure.

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Still, as an exposé of the systematic degradation of the human spirit, it is a powerful condemnation of the perils of a capitalism that jettisons the weak. Take heed, for we are all potential Daniel Blakes.

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