Dominik Moll’s police procedural mystery thriller The Night of the 12th beat out the likes of Louis Garrel’s The Innocent and Albert Serra’s Pacifiction to win this year’s César (France’s Academy Awards) for Best Film. It also picked up five […]

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Chloe Okuno’s chilling directorial debut Watcher premiered at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, and is now screening at SXSW. In this tale of stalking and gaslighting, she cast modern-day scream queen Maika Monroe (It Follows) as the protagonist who questions […]

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Even if one is a staunch believer that undocumented immigrants should be summarily deported (something which, if we’re honest, would have a negative impact on parts of the economy), could there not be a better, more humane way to do it?

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This is a film that will surely upset audiences – more importantly it will get them talking.

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The Hunt is as taut a movie as they come, allowing the faces and eyes of the actors to deliver information and meaning without deploying narrative tricks or letting his focused visual style get in the way of the film’s multifaceted emotional meaning.

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(Fingers screens Friday, January 30th, and Saturday, January 31st, as part of the Film Society of Lincoln Center’s series “Mavericks and Outsiders: Positif Celebrates American Cinema.” You can also buy it on DVD at Amazon.) A pistol-whipping. A near-rape. A […]

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