Thriller

Fading Petals

By Bobby LePire | March 2022

Given that Fading Petals only has five, maybe six characters and three or four locations, it’s easy to envision it as a…

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Given that Fading Petals only has five, maybe six characters and three or four locations, it's easy to envision it as a play. However, don't let that deter...

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Hany Abu-Assad's bleak Huda's Salon attempts to work on multiple levels: an edge-of-your-seat thriller, a political treatise, and a study of female...

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A series of roadblocks face a black detective investigating a murder in Paulo Nascimento's thriller, Breathless (Sem Fôlego). No, this isn't the United...

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Director Paulo Nascimento's dark vision of tomorrow District 666 is set in 2042, twenty years into a deadly worldwide pandemic. To fight spiraling death...

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Ivan Ostrochovsky's haunting Servants takes place a long time ago in 1980 Czechoslovakia. During this time, the totalitarian Communist regime demanded...

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In The Forest, written and directed by Hector Barron, strands three generations of a family — grandpa Stan (Lyman Ward), mother Helen (Debbon Ayer), and...

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We work ourselves to the bone every day in whatever menial job we have. And most of us never expect the day to end with a gun pointed at their face. So...

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Georgian filmmaker Giga Agladze's The Other Me is a surrealistic-tinged take on identity, relationships, and life. Executive produced by legendarily odd...

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Writer/director Simon Drake's Lost Angel, co-written by Louise Hume, follows Lisa (Sascha Harman), who returns home following the death of her sister....

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The less I say about Ali Matlock's short film, Shadows of the Dust, the better. So let me just say prepare you for a tight little sci-fi bender with a...

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