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Rebels of the Neon God

By Paul Parcellin | February 2018

The spare background music sprinkled throughout Ming-liang Tsai’s Rebels of the Neon God, a dour bass line, sets the tone of the…

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The spare background music sprinkled throughout Ming-liang Tsai’s Rebels of the Neon God, a dour bass line, sets the tone of the movie. If it’s not the...

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Dreamy without being fussy, Love, Cecil is a handsome paean to its subject, the celebrated photographer, designer and “dandy,” Cecil Beaton. To sing...

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If I were a superstitious person, I could be easily convinced that it all went wrong the moment that filmmaker Justin Price chose to title his new film The...

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It’s a futile task to bemoan the ineptitude of Fifty Shades Freed. Of course, it’s a bad film. Its source material is notoriously terrible and the two...

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I generally don’t research films before viewing them. I like coming in cold to limit as much bias as I can. My process is not perfect, and that’s OK....

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Stephen Cone’s Princess Cyd is a low-key coming-of-age drama about a 16-year-old who, carrying the weight of a family trauma on her shoulders, decided at...

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First impressions can sway someone instantly to a positive or negative way of viewing the person or thing being experienced. Sometimes these can be proven...

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In Dito Montiel’s The Clapper Eddie Krumble (Ed Helms) and his friend Chris (Tracy Morgan) get paid to clap and look on in amazement as infomercial...

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Writer-director-star Miles Doleac’s new horror drama, Demons, should not be taken as a remake of the 1985 cult movie of the same title. Nor is it the...

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The first minutes of Thelma, Joachim Trier’s first experience on psychological horror-thriller, is enchanting and baffling. Walking on a frozen lake,...

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