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Short Takes

Short Take: Aniara

By Nicolas Rapold
May 17, 2019
According to this doomed-spaceship drama, air travel doesn’t get any better in the future

Short Take: Pasolini

By Manu Yáñez Murillo
May 16, 2019
Abel Ferrara’s elegy to his master mourns the tragic loss of a political artist in full creative bloom

Short Take: Dogman

By Justin Stewart
April 11, 2019
Matteo Garrone's latest, in theaters April 12, illustrates the ruinous effects organized crime can have on even its most puppyish bit players

Short Take: Suburban Birds

By Chloe Lizotte
April 4, 2019
Concrete jungle: in Qiu Sheng’s tale of urban life, bureaucracy behaves like a cosmic force of nature

Short Take: Climax

By Michael Koresky
March 1, 2019
Disco inferno: youth culture gets a taste of its own medicine in Gaspar Noé’s apocalyptish musical