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We Are Little Zombies: An emotional film about emotionless children
Yasmin Kleinbart July 15, 2020

Makoto Nagahisa’s We Are Little Zombies is an emotionally invigorating film about four profoundly emotionless children. Hikari, Takemura, Ishi, and Ikuko meet at a crematorium during their p…

Yasmin Kleinbart July 15, 2020
Ramen Shop
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Ramen Shop Movie Review: Gather ’round the table for a tasty tale of food and family
AJ Caulfield March 25, 2019

If the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach, so too is the way to a movie-lover’s. In Ramen Shop (Ramen Teh) — the beautiful and brothy, Singaporean-Japanese-French film from director Eric Khoo…

AJ Caulfield March 25, 2019
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Summer 1993 Movie Review: An Affecting Drama That Establishes the Fraught Emotions of Childhood
Kristen Lopez May 27, 2018

Childhood is a time of wonderment, hope, of dreams waiting to be fulfilled. But when we really look back on our childhoods we know this is a fantasy and that growing up often involves sadness, pain, a…

Kristen Lopez May 27, 2018
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Ava Movie Review: An Empowering Entry to the Coming of Age Genre
Yasmin Kleinbart May 4, 2018

“Your mind is already polluted,” says Ms. Dehkhoda, the school principal, to a class of young Iranian girls. All they can do is nod while being punished for a crime they didn’t even commit: having sex…

Yasmin Kleinbart May 4, 2018
Pari, Elias and Sara in a restaurant in Ali Soozandeh’s TEHRAN TABOO. Courtesy of Kino Lorber.
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Tehran Taboo Movie Review
Yasmin Kleinbart February 24, 2018

Tehran Taboo opens with a man picking up a prostitute, Pari (Elmira Rafizadeh), and her son, Elias, in his car. While Pari is giving her client a blowjob (with Elias in the backseat), he crashes his c…

Yasmin Kleinbart February 24, 2018
Top Lists
Ranking the films of master director Guillermo Del Toro
Yasmin Kleinbart December 3, 2017

Many words have been tossed around to describe Guillermo Del Toro’s work such as “creepy” or “bizarre”, but we prefer  “visionary.” He’s established himself as a master of horror just by doing w…

Yasmin Kleinbart December 3, 2017
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Movie Review: Pop Aye
Brian Thompson June 27, 2017

“You don’t look like the type who’d be traveling with an elephant,” says a sympathetic stranger in the opening scene of Pop Aye (not to be confused with Robert Altman’s 1980 failed attempt to pay trib…

Brian Thompson June 27, 2017
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