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By Alan Ng | March 2018

Let’s mix a few clichés. How about a mash-up of a boy and his robot with the popular last man on Earth?…

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Let’s mix a few clichés. How about a mash-up of a boy and his robot with the popular last man on Earth? That’s as far as the cheesiness goes in Will...

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The documentary Point and Shoot tells the story of Matthew Vandyke, a white middle-class Baltimore dude who sets out on a pilgrimage through northern...

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As a modern American media consumer, most of the stories we encounter about international conflicts - by the time we read about them online or watch them...

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What’s it like to be the top player of a professional sport? Chasing Great shows us a bit about the world of New Zealand rugby superstar Richie McCaw,...

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A young single mother begins a descent into madness as visions haunt her and endanger her newborn. The Lullaby is a movie made up of disparate, but...

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In her debut feature film, Oh Lucy!, Japanese writer-director Atsuko Hirayanagi successfully expands her award-winning 2014 short film of the same name and...

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Films about mid-life crisis and lusty professors, who get themselves into a world of trouble, hold a venerable place in cinematic history. Josef von...

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This is my fifth “coming home” film in the last six months (See Mr. Roosevelt and 5 Doctors). It’s almost not fair for me to review Robert...

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With only a few titles under his belt, Russian director Andrey Zvyagintsev (The Return, Leviathan) is quickly becoming one of cinema’s most promising...

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Rookie feature director Sophie Brooks can get away with a few missteps in The Boy Downstairs because she understands one basic truth: Love turns rational,...

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