Category: Review
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Working Girls
‘Broken Mirrors,’ Marleen Gorris’ 1984 follow-up to her still-transcendent feminist drama ‘A Question of Silence,’ expands on its predecessor’s themes while dramatically improving on its writer-director’s aesthetic command.
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‘Night Nurse’: Georgia Bernstein’s Atmospheric, Opaque Feature Debut
The filmmaker’s audacious, narratively undernourished new feature has, above all else, great style.
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‘Rock & Rule’ Could Use a Lot More Rock
As star-studded as this 1983 cartoon for adults’ soundtrack is, it features far fewer musical sequences than you’d expect.
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Found Connections
Donna Deitch’s ‘Desert Hearts’ was a breakthrough for lesbian representation in cinema. It also achieves another rarified thing: Characters who feel like they exist outside a screenplay’s bounds.
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‘Jackass: Best and Last’ Plays It Safe
The storied prank franchise’s purportedly final chapter only underscores how well 2022’s ‘Jackass Forever’ functioned as a finale.
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‘Funeral Parade of Roses’ is a Hypnotizing Swirl
Toshio Matsumoto’s 1969 movie is exhilaratingly unclassifiable.
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‘When Night is Falling’: Silly and Sensual
Patricia Rozema’s 1995 romantic drama’s self-seriousness sometimes induces laughter, but its endearingly earnest celebration of fantasy makes it (just barely) work.
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Average Joes
Greg Berlanti’s ‘The Broken Hearts Club’ feels like a classic hidden in plain sight.
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A Different Angle
On Isaac Julien’s slippery, thoughtful ‘Looking for Langston.’
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‘The Stroll’ is a Stirring, Deeply Personal Documentary
Homing in on a segment of the Meatpacking District that once was the stomping grounds of trans sex workers, the 2023 documentary powerfully builds on the experiences of subject and co-director Kristen Lovell.
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Self-Discoveries
André Téchiné’s ‘Wild Reeds’ is a beautifully shot, emotionally intelligent coming-of-age movie.
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Glamour Girls
On ‘The Queen,’ Frank Simon’s flawed but essential 1968 documentary.
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