Happy FKN Sunshine | Film Threat
Directed by Derek Diorio and written by Ryan Keller and James Gordon Ross, Happy FKN Sunshine is set in a small, provincial Canadian town. The nameless town has one mill, which in fact, is how the community was given life. Nowadays, it…
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Jafar Panahi’s Nifty Meta Exercise Packs An Emotional Punch
Iranian director Jafar Panahi has been incarcerated since July 2022 for “propaganda against the system” after he visited authorities to inquire about another detained filmmaker, Mohammad Rasoulof. This is far from Panahi’s first brush with a repressive system that has…
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Aimee Garcia Exudes Star Power In Genuine Holiday Rom-Com
Home Movie Reviews Christmas With You Review: Aimee Garcia Exudes Star Power In Genuine Holiday Rom-Com It’s cheesy in all the right places and serious in very few, but Christmas With You is reliably sweet and sincere when it needs…
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Daisy Ridley Shines in Dark Comedy
Sometimes I Think About Dying, by director Rachel Lambert, begins with several scenes of beauty within mundanity. A deer runs down cement stairs in a neighborhood; dozens of apples have congregated on a sewer grate in the street; a gigantic…
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A Gripping Look at the World of Piano Competitions
When it comes to art, there is creating art and then there is perfecting art. Anyone can learn the piano, but can you perfect it? Pianoforte dives deep into the torture and elation that comes with perfecting a talent, something…
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Another Sturdy Collaboration Between Christian Bale & Director Scott Cooper
If you believe Christian Bale is one of our finest working actors, then you must make sense of his continued collaboration with writer/director Scott Cooper. Their latest joint, Netflix’s “The Pale Blue Eye,” marks a trinity of team-ups for Bale…
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When You Finish Saving the World
NOW IN THEATERS! When You Finish Saving the World is the directorial debut of playwright, author, and Oscar-nominated actor Jesse Eisenberg based on his audiobook with the same name, which he narrates. The comedic drama lives in your headspace. It’s neither…
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Frankenstein Reimagining Led By Arresting Performances
A horror film that asks the big questions surrounding life and death with a sly grin while playing out largely within the small confines of a single apartment, the Shudder original Birth/Rebirth is a prime example of why the midnight…
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Florence Pugh Is The Miracle In Netflix’s Haunting Movie
Home Movie Reviews The Wonder Review: Florence Pugh Is The Miracle In Netflix's Haunting Movie Pugh carries The Wonder when it threatens to buckle under lofty ideas that it's reticent to explore with the fervor its subject matter would call…
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The Whitney Houston Biopic Is Worth Making A Song And Dance About
Taking the stage in theaters at the tail end of 2022, the Whitney Houston biopic “I Wanna Dance with Somebody” is a crowd-pleasing homage to the life, legacy, and work of an icon who sold over 200 million records worldwide.…
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When You Finish Saving the World Review: Jesse Eisenberg’s Acidic Comedy
This review was originally part of our 2022 Sundance coverage. When You Finish Saving the World begins with Ziggy Katz (Finn Wolfhard) playing a song for his 20,000 followers. Going by the name of TheRealZiggyKatz, he sings of “two high…
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Hugh Jackman Can’t Save Florian Zeller’s Bleak Drama
This review was originally part of our coverage for the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival. In 2020, Florian Zeller released his directorial debut, The Father, a tremendously moving and powerful story about the horror of dementia and the toll that…
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