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Short Takes

Short Takes: Midnight Traveler

By Kelli Weston
September 24, 2019
Hassan Fazili’s poetic account of his family’s desperate search for asylum is cinema as political act

Short Take: The Laundromat

By Nicolas Rapold
September 3, 2019
Chutes and ladders: Steven Soderbergh's Panama Papers satire combines his way-we-live-now comedy mode with a near-documentary zeal for explanation

Short Take: What You Gonna Do When the World’s on Fire?

By Tayler Montague
August 15, 2019
Roberto Minervini’s documentary teems with beauty

Short Take: Luce

By Adam Nayman
August 2, 2019
Julius Onah’s film is compelling when it hunkers down with its characters and their complications

Short Takes: The Mountain

By Mark Asch
July 23, 2019
In his latest, Rick Alverson employs that most frontal of metaphors: the lobotomy

Short Takes: Ray & Liz

By José Teodoro
July 10, 2019
Richard Billingham’s debut feature counters the grubby tenets of British miserablism with humor and beauty

Short Take: The Art of Self-Defense

By Chloe Lizotte
July 9, 2019
Riley Stearns strives for, but fails to achieve, a dark comedy intoned in Yorgos Lanthimos deadpan

Short Take: Wild Rose

By Steven Mears
June 13, 2019
In Tom Harper’s film, Jessie Buckley ecstatically announces herself as a protean performer of limitless potential

Short Take: The Raft

By Naomi Keenan O'Shea
June 6, 2019
The documentary on a 1973 social experiment frequently feels incomplete, yet is studded with spontaneous moments of poignancy

Too Late to Die Young

By José Teodoro
June 3, 2019
Dominga Sotomayor’s third feature is a study in tumultuous transition