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KVIFF 2026: Rose, Black Money for White Nights, Paris Paris
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A Leaning Tower of Camp: John Early on “Maddie’s Secret”
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Humor Is a Weapon: A Conversation with John Waters
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Documentary Now! 4th Edition is an Incredible Companion to Beloved Show
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Cannes 2026 Video #4: Festival Dispatch with Zachary Lee
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Michael Sheen and David Tennant’s Emotional Connection Grounds a Bittersweet “Good Omens” Finale
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A Fond Farewell to Our Critic Monica Castillo
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A True American Original: Ted Turner (1938-2026)
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Male Directors Can’t Stop Making Movies About Female Pop Stars
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“The Faithful: Women of the Bible” Doesn’t Match the Grandeur of its Premise
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We Broke the Loop: Ian Tuason and Nina Kiri on “undertone”
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How “The Testament of Ann Lee” Subverts Cinema’s Lineage of Cult Leaders
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It All Starts With the Meditation App: Bart Layton on “Crime 101”
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Sundance 2026: Leviticus, Buddy, Mum I’m Alien Pregnant
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Cute Chaos: Penny Lane on “Happy And You Know It”
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The Great Craft of 2025
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I’m Just An Actor: Rebuilding Roles with Josh O’Connor
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CIFF 2025: The Book of Sijjin & Illiyyin, The Holy Boy, Anything That Moves
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CIFF 2025: True North, Pasa Faho, Sun Ra: Do the Impossible
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Venice Film Festival 2025: Broken English, The Wizard of the Kremlin, No Other Choice, In the Hand of Dante
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Desire Never Goes Away: Sarah Friedland and Kathleen Chalfant on “Familiar Touch”
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Syfy’s “Revival” Resurrects the Small-Town Zombie Craze In Suitably Morbid Fashion
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People Have Theories: “Picnic at Hanging Rock” at 50
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Anora’s Real-Life Fairytale: Five-Oscar Victory for Indie Film
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In the Name of Friendship: Matthew Rankin on “Universal Language”
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The Great Craft of 2024
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The Great Performances of 2024, Part One
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Two Thumbs Up! The Individual Top Tens of 2024
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André Holland Talks Deleted Scenes from “42”
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The State of the 2024 Oscar Race
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Looking Into My Soul: Colman Domingo on Sing Sing
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Fantasia 2024: The Chapel, The Beast Within, FAQ
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Time to Bloom: KiKi Layne on Dandelion
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High Noon: Greg Kwedar and Monique Walton On Sing Sing
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On The Same Level: Paul Raci, Clarence Maclin, and Sean Johnson on Sing Sing
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Film Festivals: A Place For Found Family & Cultivating Community
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Cannes 2024: Megalopolis, Bird, The Damned, Meeting with Pol Pot
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The Red Carpets of the 2024 Chicago Critics Film Festival
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SXSW 2024: Sing Sing, Bob Trevino Likes It, Hood Witch
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All 10 of Martin Scorsese’s Directing Oscar Nominations, Ranked
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In Memoriam: The 10 Great Movies That Were Forgotten This Oscar Season
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FX’s Fargo Gets Back on Its Feet In Its Assured Fifth Season
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Bright Wall/Dark Room October 2023: Killing Time: 3:10 to Yuma & the Lonesome West by Nicholas Russell
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Bright Wall/Dark Room September 2023: I Used to Float, Now I Just Fall Down by Lindsey Romain
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TIFF 2023: Rustin, Sing Sing
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KVIFF 2023: Citizen Saint, Brutal Heat, Dancing on the Edge of a Volcano
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KVIFF 2023: White Plastic Sky, Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell, In Camera
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Cannes 2023: How to Have Sex, Los Delincuentes, The New Boy
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A Return to the Presence of Love
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Cannes 2021: Benedetta, The Worst Person in the World
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How This Year’s Golden Globes Could Impact Award Season
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Sundance 2021: Ma Belle, My Beauty, The Blazing World, and Son of Monarchs
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Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo + Juliet is as Irreplaceable as Ever
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The Unloved, Part 83: Resident Evil: Retribution
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Frederick Douglass Reminds Us Why Black Lives Matter on the Fourth of July
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Jerry Stiller: 1927-2020
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Bright Wall/Dark Room March 2020: The Cross Inside Me by Thomas Zak
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On Mona May, the Queen of ‘90s Movie Fashion
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Sundance 2020: Eight Highlights of the Shorts Programs
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