Just a few years after bringing romance and tears to moviegoers with her phenomenal directorial debut Past Lives, Celine Song is back with a whole new love triangle. Materialists, the writer-director’s newest venture with A24, brings together the alluring trio […]

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Editors Note: Past Lives opens theatrically this weekend in New York and Los Angeles, and will expand from there. Below is Matt Delman’s review from the 2023 Sundance Film Festival. (The 2023 Sundance Film Festival takes place January 19-29 in and […]

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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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After seeing this film, I doubt anyone will question the ‘validity’ of Crystal Moselle’s directorial talents.

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