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Transit Movie Review: History melds with contemporary in subtle refugee drama
Brian Thompson March 2, 2019

“What’s in a name?” — as with his last film, the haunting and radiant Phoenix, writer-director Christian Petzold is perpetually fascinated with the notion of assumed identity. How much of …

Brian Thompson March 2, 2019
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3 Faces Movie Review | VIFF 2018
Gary Shannon October 11, 2018

Jafar Pahani’s 3 Faces escapes the confines of the director’s home (This Is Not a Film) and even Tehran (Taxi) as the recording of a young girl’s apparent suicide spurs him, and celebrated Irani…

Gary Shannon October 11, 2018
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Transit Movie Review | VIFF 2018
Gary Shannon October 9, 2018

What if purgatory was a Gestapo police state in contemporary Marseilles? Once again, Christian Petzold’s romantic waltz of Hollywood dreamscape and grounded emotional reality is not so much a distract…

Gary Shannon October 9, 2018
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12 Most Memorable Movie Scenes of 2015
Jordan Ruimy April 11, 2016

The Revenant (Alejandro González Iñárritu, 2015), The Bear Attack Yes, every single word of praise you’ve read and/or heard is true. One can’t escape talking about The Revenant without men…

Jordan Ruimy April 11, 2016
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Movie Review: ‘Phoenix’
Josh Cabrita July 24, 2015

Nelly Lenz (Nina Hoss), a Holocaust survivor, visits a doctor’s office to have her face recreated after a gunshot wound left her visage and psyche disfigured. For her new face and identity, the doctor…

Josh Cabrita July 24, 2015
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