The decades-long partnership of director James Ivory and producer Ismail Merchant is endearingly profiled in the new documentary Merchant Ivory. The titular words are not only synonymous with the legendary duo, but also the string of iconic, sophisticated period pieces […]

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Colin Burgess inhabits the self-centered Drew in Ryan Martin Brown’s Free Time, a rambunctious comedy that builds to a generational fever. Drew decides to quit his job and embrace life, but when a video of him chewing out his old […]

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One of the most promising American indies of the year, writer-director Ryan Martin Brown’s comedy Free Time explores the delusions of young freedom through the eyes of a man pushing 30 (played by comedian Colin Burgess). It also features an ensemble […]

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A woman’s sexual awakening manifests in peculiar ways in Piaffe. Directed by visual artist Ann Oren, in her feature debut, it follows an odd and introverted young woman (Simone Bucio) who grows a horse’s tail and develops a horse-like personality […]

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One of the surprise nominees for Best Feature at the Independent Spirit Awards this year was writer-director Ellie Foumbi’s haunting feature debut, Our Father, The Devil. It had its world premiere at the 2021 Venice Film Festival where it was […]

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This seems to be the year for Lily Gladstone to shine. She delivered one of the best performances of this year’s Sundance in Fancy Dance, and has already gotten tremendous praise for her role in Martin Scorcese’s Killers of the […]

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This film is a must-see, an eye-opening debut that deserves to be part of the current film conversation.

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Budrus is a riveting, modern-day illustration in sound and vision of just how effective nonviolent resistance can be.

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