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Fancy Dance, Lily Gladstone
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‘Fancy Dance’s Lily Gladstone Thrives in Socially Conscious Character-Driven Native American Crime Thriller – Philadelphia Film Festival Review

Communities often have a harrowing way of showing its concern and support for other drastically different cultures, no matter how much they claim to be humanitarians. The new Native-centric drama Fancy Dance powerfully highlights that moral injustice. The film focuses on a family in the Seneca-Cayuga tribe that’s devastated by the indifference towards their plight…

Karen Benardello
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Dream Scenario
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‘Dream Scenario’ Film Review – The Ups and Downs of Being Far Too Known in the Wrong Way

Being told that you appeared in someone else’s dream can be uneasy news to receive. That someone remembers it likely means that something significant happened and the dreamer might still be actively thinking about it. But it’s not actually related to real life, at least not in any proven way, though people are often so…

Abe Friedtanzer
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How to have an American Baby
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DOC NYC: How To Have An American Baby, A Gut-Wrenching Account Of How The Birth Tourism Industry Becomes A Geopolitical Parable

Filmmaker Leslie Tai provides a cinematic peek into the soaring latent economy that addresses Chinese pregnant women who travel to the United States to give birth, to provide a better future for their babies. How To Have An American Baby — part of the 2023 DOC NYC line-up — is a choral piece that intertwines…

Chiara Spagnoli Gabardi
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The stones and Brian Jones2
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“The Stones and Brian Jones” Review : The Sad True Story of the Man Who Started it All

Photo : Courtesy of Magnolia Pictures. Nick Broomfield’s documentary “The Stones and Brian Jones” tells the sad true story of the man who started the greatest rock n’ roll band of all time, The Rolling Stones. The Rolling Stones had been a band for over 60 years, but many do not know the story of…

Serena Davanzo
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Nyad
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“NYAD” is an Energizing Showcase of a Daring Feat with Annette Bening and Jodie Foster

There are many reasons to be in great physical shape, and achieving that goal comes more easily for some than others. Yet just being fit and healthy isn’t nearly enough for the most driven, who excel at a given sport or specific ability and yearn to be the best in their field. What the most…

Abe Friedtanzer
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Sly
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‘Sly’ is a Thorough and Eye-Opening Look of Sylvester Stallone-AFI Fest Film Review

Most actors are lucky to achieve one distinguished role over the course of their career or to have a steady stream of work. It’s rare to headline more than one franchise at a time and then start a new one decades later. But there’s not much that’s typical about Sylvester Stallone, who was determined early…

Abe Friedtanzer
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The End We Start From
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‘The End We Start From’ is a Motherhood-Driven Survival Story / AFI Fest Film Review –

Dystopias don’t emerge purely from science fiction circumstances where zombies walk the earth or aliens have invaded. It’s very possible for civilization as we know it to crumble to an unrecognizable form due purely to events beyond our control, particularly those related to the weather. Those predicting catastrophic outcomes may do their best to prevent…

Abe Friedtanzer
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Perfect Days’ Kōji Yakusho Offers an Ordinary Life in Tokyo – Philadelphia Film Festival Review
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Perfect Days’ Kōji Yakusho Offers an Ordinary Life in Tokyo – Philadelphia Film Festival Review

Illuminating the thoughts, feelings and self-awareness of protagonists from diverse backgrounds is one of the most realistic ways for character-driven movies to reflect on the magnificence of ordinary, day-to-day life. Actor Kōji Yakusho’s main character of Hirayama shares his opinions and emotions in an unassuming, sincere way as he indulges in life’s simple pleasures in…

Karen Benardello
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New York Japan CineFest, An Immersion Into Cinematic Existentialism
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New York Japan CineFest, An Immersion Into Cinematic Existentialism

The New York Japan CineFest was born in 2012, with the intent of supporting budding filmmakers and providing creative playground in the most exciting city in the world, New York City. The festival was founded by two filmmakers, Yasu Suzuki, Kosuke Furukawa and a music producer Hiroshi Kono, who truly have succeeded in sharing with…

Chiara Spagnoli Gabardi
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American Fiction
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AFI Fest Film Review – ‘American Fiction’ is a Smart and Savagely Entertaining Satire from Debut Director Cord Jefferson

Liberal society is in the process of reckoning with itself, realizing its shortcomings and the blindspots that have permeated culture for many years. While that’s led to a worthwhile spotlight on the previously underrepresented and a movement to showcase diversity, much of it has become little more than virtue signaling, where the aim of a…

Abe Friedtanzer
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Jessica Yu’s ‘Quiz Lady’ is a Rollicking Film About Celebrity and Obsession
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Jessica Yu’s ‘Quiz Lady’ is a Rollicking Film About Celebrity and Obsession

A delightful and rollicking film in the “crazy Asian” genre, Jessica Yu’s Quiz Lady takes a light-hearted look at the lives of two Korean-American sisters whose temperaments seem as different as yin and yang. There’s Anne Yum (played by Awkwafina), the introverted brainiac who is obsessed with “Can’t Stop the Quiz,” a television game show—she…

Edward Moran
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