Spike Lee’s filmed version of David Byrne’s Broadway show captures a feeling of infectious enthusiasm and energy.
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Review: Beats
Brian Welsh injects this coming of age tale, set against the last hurrah of Scotland’s rave scene, with visual energy and electric nostalgia.
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Review: Crawl
This high-concept girl vs. monster thriller is a shining light in 2019’s swamp water of reboots, remakes and rip-offs.
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Review: Monos
This chaotically evocative thriller is a sensory, obscure look at a unit of child soldiers set on a faraway Columbian mountaintop.
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Review: The Body Remembers When The World Broke Open
Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers and Kathleen Hepburn deftly navigate conflict and compassion between two Indigenous women with unparalleled care and intimacy.
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Review: Transit
Christian Petzold’s wrenching melodrama is an aching journey of forgetfulness, forgiveness, and identity in flux.
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Within and Without: Poetry in Motion and Lee Chang-dong’s Burning
Claire White shares her lasting memories of Lee Chang-dong’s impressionistic mystery.
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Review: Us
Jordan Peele gives Get Out an evil twin with this loopier, looser horror follow-up.
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Review: Hotel Mumbai
Dev Patel and Armie Hammer star in a white lens fictional retelling of the 2008 Mumbai Attacks to disastrous, culturally insensitive effect.
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Review: High Life
Claire Denis’ ambitious first English-language flight into space is brought crashing down by glaringly conventional representational issues.
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