Adam Keller

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By Adam Keller | November 2018

The best “one-room thrillers” show the popular potential of indie cinema—with a strong script and dedicated performances, you don’t need a huge…

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The best “one-room thrillers” show the popular potential of indie cinema—with a strong script and dedicated performances, you don’t need a huge...

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Ken Liu’s stimulating short story Real Artists, like much science fiction, puts thought-provoking ideas over examinations of human behavior. In it,...

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Are you a fan of 90’s industrial band Circle of Dust? Or frontman Klayton’s other projects, Celldweller and Scandroid? If so, you might already have a...

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The current crime epidemic in Baltimore is so multifaceted that it’s hard to have a productive conversation about it. So when viewers, particularly from...

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Comedies keep pushing the end of male adolescence back a few years. Knocked Up moved it to the mid-twenties. The Hangover trilogy kicked it even further to...

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Revenge is a popular theme in film, and it’s also a popular title. I feel like every year I see a new one: the Austrian film Revanche, the French film...

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Wind glances off tree branches as fat insects flit around the viewer’s head. Haunting blasts of electronic noise reverberate through the soundtrack. Even...

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Time is a funny thing. Some movies nominated for a dozen Oscars are never heard from again, while others age like a fine wine into classic status. The...

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I’m not headed to mainland China anytime soon, but if I was, writing this review of the documentary Letter From Masanjia would make me think twice about...

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Never Steady, Never Still is what older generations would call a three-hankie or maybe quintuple-hankie movie. For the small family at the center of...

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