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The Princess Warrior

By Bobby LePire | March 2024

The Princess Warrior is also known as Princess Khutulun, which is the better title. See, this dramatic action epic directed by S.…

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The Princess Warrior is also known as Princess Khutulun, which is the better title. See, this dramatic action epic directed by S. Baasanjargal and...

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Writer-director Qiu Jiongjiong's A New Old Play opens with two affable demons, Oxhead and Horseface, personified as humans, pumping the front tire of the...

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TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2022 REVIEW! Devotion is based on the true story of Jesse Brown, the first African-American pilot to complete the...

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The world famously knows the journey and travels of the duo Lewis & Clark and their exploration of the Louisiana Purchase. Clark Richey's...

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Japanese auteur Kiyoshi Kurosawa is known for his masterful work in multiple genres, ranging from gripping horror thrillers like Cure (1997) to moving...

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"The heart of the wise leader of The Communist Party and the Soviet People has stopped beating." That is how Joseph Stalin's death was officially announced...

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Once in a blue moon, a film comes along that's both immaculately produced and oddly detached. On the one hand, Woo Min-ho's historical espionage...

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An innocent is plucked from his bucolic home in 1937 Austria and placed ringside to watch history play out while befriending one of the greatest minds of...

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Before he takes on Marvel’s Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, director Destin Daniel Cretton and co-writer Andrew Lanham tackle head-on the...

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Baltic Tribes, directed by Lauris Abele and Raitis Abele, is neither a narrative drama nor a straightforward documentary. It uses a fictional 13th-century...

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