Advertisements Velvety shadows cut into the pristine fabric of light like sharp daggers, and faces contort with devious abandon under the weight of a brutal existence. Amidst the cold indifference of a stony city, a warm friendship is first forged and then…
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Advertisements There’s something off about Scott Beck and Bryan Woods’s Heretic, something rotten at its pit that leaves the film feeling macabre in its subtext in a way that feels unintentional. The film follows two young women, Mormon missionaries Sister Paxton (Chloe…
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Advertisements I left We Live in Time with tears in my eyes, walking in a bleary-eyed bubble filled with sweetness and love blown by the tender end of the romantic drama starring Florence Pugh and Andrew Garfield. The bubble burst when I…
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Advertisements In Belkis Bayrak’s Gülizar, Gülizar’s (Ecem Uzun) and her fiancé Emre’s (Bekir Behrem) gazes never manage to meet. As one looks up, the other looks down, and each finds their desire for understanding, for steady ground in the other, frustrated over…
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But the magic of 'Hard Truths' is the way Pansy’s self-imposed suffering reveals all the joy, connection, and potential gratitude just at her fingertips if she would only choose to see it.…
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I have no doubt these people love Harper. But are they willing to not just celebrate her, but also denounce those in their community who are actively and regularly transphobic?…
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'No Other Land' documents not just Israel’s violent oppression, but the Palestinian people’s unbelievable capacity to prevail, to remain on their land at any cost.…
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Advertisements “You have to believe in the illusion, or you’ll go mad.” So says an anonymous speaker in Payal Kapadia’s glittering All We Imagine As Light. The film opens on documentary footage of Mumbai’s hustle and bustle, accompanied by voiceovers from real…
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Advertisements Director Ali Abbasi’s breakthrough came by way of Border, a singularly strange fairy tale about a troll who stumbles upon a child trafficking ring while working as a Swedish customs agent. Six years later, there’s little trace of that same eccentricity…
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Bella's first Dispatch and review from the 2024 D’A Film Festival.…
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