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Here are ten of our favorite indie film discoveries from 2015.
Read MoreVengeance is never as straightforward as it seems in most films. But Wild Tales takes the absurdity of the revenge thriller, makes it messy, and repackages it under the guise of a black comedy.
Read MoreAt first blush, Crimson Peak may appear indistinguishable from other 19th-century haunted house tales. That is, until one fully inhabits the world of the story, and finds that what lurks in the supernatural is less monstrous than what exists in plain sight.
Read MoreWhen you’re working on a project like Spotlight, which tackles a very real string of atrocities, going too far down the added-drama road can undermine the truth of what you’re trying to get at. Spotlight gets around this problem in an interesting way: it doesn’t really have any characters.
Read MoreWhat musicians would America have oppressed if Dr. Dre, Ice Cube, Eazy-E, MC Ren, and DJ Yella listened to the naysayers and followed those who said rap music, sampling, reality rap, all of it, was a waste of time and definitely illegal?
Read MorePonyo, Miyazaki’s modern-day fairy tale, illustrates his gift for upending so-called sentimentality, a feat all the more anarchic in an age that practically worships “grit” and aestheticizes sadness.
Read MoreI remember vividly the transitional era between analog VHS and digital DVDs. Just the gluttony of seeing used VHSs in the clearance bin, as DVDs were claiming real estate on the rental shelves, was a blessing in disguise.
Read MoreFilm can never replicate true reality, but a film like Love seeks to get it as close to reality as possible, and, in doing so, show us something we haven’t seen before. Noé’s goal is to make us think about human sexuality in a way that we may not have previously thought about it...
Read MoreDo I Sound Gay?, a documentary by journalist David Thorpe, asserts that the inflection in people’s voices is semiotics, a composition of many things, but two in particular: where they grew up and what that place sounds like, as well as who raised them and what they sound like.
Read MoreWhen you think of the nuclear family, what comes to mind? A nurturing mom and confident dad flanked by eager rugrats? Matching pajamas and monogamy? In the cradle of bleach-white alpine peaks, Force Majeure takes the western family ideal and wedges its fissures wide open.
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