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FAMILY PORTRAIT: A Family Under the Influence

Family Portrait captures the underlying sense of menace seeping into the monotony of everyday life that characterized the early days of the pandemic.

Away from the Hype: STAR WARS: EPISODE I - THE PHANTOM MENANCE 
Away from the Hype: STAR WARS: EPISODE I – THE PHANTOM MENANCE 

It has a lot of charm and it’s refreshing to see something playing by its own rules and not following a rigid formula.

Tribeca Film Festival 2024: BRATS: A Nostalgic Odyssey Back To The 1980s
Tribeca Film Festival 2024: BRATS: A Nostalgic Odyssey Back To The 1980s

Brats is a reminder old wounds can calcify and scab over turning into the foundation for something all the more beautiful.

Tribeca Film Festival 2024: CHAMPIONS OF THE GOLDEN VALLEY, BAM BAM: THE SISTER NANCY STORY & THE WEEKEND
Tribeca Film Festival 2024: CHAMPIONS OF THE GOLDEN VALLEY, BAM BAM: THE SISTER NANCY STORY & THE WEEKEND

From Tribeca Film Festival 2024, Soham Gadre takes a look at CHAMPIONS OF THE GOLDEN VALLEY, BAM BAM: THE SISTER NANCY STORY & THE WEEKEND!

CHILDREN IN WAR: A Documentary for Our Times
CHILDREN IN WAR: A Documentary for Our Times

Children in War contributes a clear-eyed, disciplined, and eloquently forceful rejection of every lie and excuse ever conjured for the justification of war.

BUTTERFLY IN THE SKY: Celebrating The Formative Power of Reading Rainbow and LeVar Burton
BUTTERFLY IN THE SKY: Celebrating The Formative Power of Reading Rainbow and LeVar Burton

Reading Rainbow cultivated an environment that was safe for kids and equally empowering — it engendered curiosity.

WILDCAT: The Hawkes Bring The Prickly Southern Writer To The Screen With Tender Loving Care
WILDCAT: The Hawkes Bring The Prickly Southern Writer To The Screen With Tender Loving Care

Wildcat becomes a lens through which to see beauty and empathize with one of our great American writers – and what a gift it is.

Cannes Film Festival 2024: MEGALOPOLIS
Cannes Film Festival 2024: MEGALOPOLIS

It’s truly difficult to qualify the beast of an experience that is Megalopolis, and because of that, there’s an undefinable elegance.

I SAW THE TV GLOW: We're All Going To The Pink Opaque
I SAW THE TV GLOW: We’re All Going To The Pink Opaque

With I Saw the TV Glow, Jane Schoenbrun stakes their claim as the preeminent chronicler of those specific horrors inherent in coming of age as a millennial.

NEW LIFE: That's Not Ebola, Raymond
NEW LIFE: That’s Not Ebola, Raymond

Even with as slow and frustrating as the first half of it was, New Life was still a fun watch.

HUNDREDS OF BEAVERS: A Fur Trapping Photoplay Of The Highest Order
HUNDREDS OF BEAVERS: A Fur Trapping Photoplay Of The Highest Order

Hundreds of Beavers is a comedic masterpiece, delivering non-stop hysterical sight gags, formal ingenuity, and cathartic woodland violence.

No Way Up Democratizes the Underwater Thriller
NO WAY UP Represents The Democratization Of Bad Underwater Thrillers

Formerly the realm of big-budget blockbusters, the subgenre of underwater thrillers has been flooded with relentless low-budget pictures.

KUNG FU PANDA 4: Enough Wit For One More Kick
KUNG FU PANDA 4: Enough Wit For One More Kick

Kung Fu Panda 4 has lost some of its mojo, but still has a few nice moves left in this old franchise.

Horrific Inquiry: TRAIN TO BUSAN
Horrific Inquiry: THE OMEN (1976)

With Easter just around the corner, it felt like the perfect time to check The Omen off my list.

SOCIETY OF THE SNOW: Cinematic Reflections On Resilience
SOCIETY OF THE SNOW: Cinematic Reflections On Resilience

Society of the Snow delivers a powerful narrative that transcends the screen, prompting audiences to contemplate the depths of human endurance.