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Trials to Triumph

By Benjamin Franz | June 2023

Sports documentaries are a fascinating genre. My particular favorites are generally the deeply motivating and inspirational rags-to-riches stories. In director Greg Romano’s Trials…

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Sports documentaries are a fascinating genre. My particular favorites are generally the deeply motivating and inspirational rags-to-riches stories. In...

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One of the joys of being an independent film critic is witnessing the sheer breadth of creativity that enterprising, low-budget filmmakers use to bring...

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Following up his short Roadkill, writer-director Justin T. Malone's Beware of Goat is an incisive and joyously sardonic look at rural life in the...

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NOW IN THEATERS! Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, directed by Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers, and Justin K. Thompson, would be a great film if it...

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Sinister forces are chasing after a missing stash of drugs in director Sang-yong Lee's thriller, The Roundup: No Way Out, written by Kim Min-sung. Don Lee...

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Have you ever been invited to a casual party at a stranger's house, and when you arrive, everyone is sitting around telling stories that are too incredible...

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Screenwriters Latasha Choe Johnson and B. Danielle Watkins drown their lighthearted drama, Crescent Gang, in sentimentality. Onyx Keesha and Gino Raphael...

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The first episode of Y2K Babes packs a considerable punch. Trying to break into entertainment is challenging work. It is even more difficult in an...

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Brutal Season takes only a few words to transport its audience fully. "I swear it's getting closer. Only just a little, too; you can hardly notice it."...

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Black Notebooks: Ronit (Cahiers Noirs) is an intimate documentary, from filmmaker Shlomi Elkabetz, that serves as a love letter to family and filmmaking....

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