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Reviews

Short Take: State Like Sleep

By Madeline Whittle
January 17, 2019
(Meredith Danluck, USA, The Orchard, Opening January 4)

Film of the Week: The Heiresses

By Jonathan Romney
January 11, 2019
Rearranging the deckchairs: two middle-aged Paraguayan women cling to a semblance of respectable society amidst dysfunction

The Big Screen: Birds of Passage

By Manu Yáñez Murillo
January 2, 2019
Guns, drugs, and steel: tradition clashes with a brazen modernity in a new film from Ciro Guerra and Cristina Gallego

Short Take: Destroyer

By Nick Davis
December 19, 2018
(Karyn Kusama, USA, Annapurna Pictures, Opening December 25)

Review: Cold War

By Ela Bittencourt
December 19, 2018
(Pawel Pawlikowski, Poland, Amazon Studios, Opening December 21)

Deep Focus: Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

By Michael Sragow
December 14, 2018
Flat-out fun: the late superhero arrival to 2018 turns out to be deliciously entertaining

Review: Cam + People’s Republic of Desire

By Devika Girish
December 4, 2018
Reaching out: in Cam and People’s Republic of Desire bodies are monetized, but at what cost?

Short Take: Vox Lux

By Tyler Wilson
December 4, 2018
(Brady Corbet, USA, NEON, Opening December 7)

Review: Tyrel

By Christina Newland
December 4, 2018
(Sebastián Silva, USA, Magnolia Pictures, Opening December 6)

Review: The Favourite

By Molly Haskell
November 19, 2018
(Yorgos Lanthimos, Ireland/UK/USA, Fox Searchlight, Opening November 23)