Fernando Mereilles and Katia Lund’s 2002 film “City of God” is a triumph. It earned four Academy Award nominations and wide…
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“Mothers’ Instinct” gets by on its pulpy potential more than anything else. There’s something intrinsically appealing about watching two phenomenal…
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Adapted from the 2013 Carl Hiaasen novel of the same name, Apple TV+’s “Bad Monkey” is a Florida-set dramedy that follows…
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Patient and kindhearted, a painted storybook in motion, “Sirocco and the Kingdom of the Winds” is a lovely glimpse of what…
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When I was in college I worked at a Dallas movie theater, the Inwood. It was an art house theater that…
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“The Last Front” is a first-rate calling-card movie—a medium-budget project that feels much bigger because it puts all the money on the…
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Fittingly, director Tilman Singer’s “Cuckoo” feels very much like a bird’s nest in form and theme, namely in how it finds…
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“Cuckoo” gets more confusing the more it explains itself. The further writer-director Tilman Singer goes in articulating the strange goings-on…
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In 2013, Angela Patton gave a TEDXWomen Talk that went viral. She spoke about a program she created in Richmond,…
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The crimes of the Catholic Church are no secret to most citizens of the Western world. Yet, as is the…
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