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The White Girl

By Matthew Roe | April 2018

Stanley Kubrick once said, “If you can talk brilliantly enough about a subject you can create the consoling illusion it has been…

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Stanley Kubrick once said, “If you can talk brilliantly enough about a subject you can create the consoling illusion it has been mastered.” It seems...

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Malin’s life gains new meaning when he is abruptly plucked from his career as a Russian Literature professor at the University of Havana and unexpectedly...

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French/Icelandic art film Carcasse presents an abstract whose meaning will come from the viewer. Choose your own elucidation. From the filmmakers...

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A movie doesn’t need big fancy visuals or the most striking directorial style in order to be engaging. If the writing is sharp enough and the actors...

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Bringing one’s own biases into a movie, be it the production or viewing of it, is inevitable. A writer may, intentionally or not, bring their ideas of...

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There’s a certain level of bravery I see in films that makes me glad I’m in this business of film criticism. There are stories that the world needs to...

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Josh (Zachary Quinto) is a troubled man living in the shadow of his brother. After experiencing a series of hallucinations involving his brother Craig (Jon...

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Cyril Schäublin’s feature debut, Those Who Are Fine, renders a scam story involving elderly women as preys in today’s Internet world. Following four...

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Superstition and good, old-fashioned subjugation are the driving forces in I Am Not a Witch, a film that can be surprisingly rousing and entertaining given...

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Rampage poses one question: How much Dwayne Johnson is too much Dwayne Johnson? The actor turns out films with an alarming regularity, just a tick under a...

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