Jim Jarmusch constructs three scenarios about family, all different, but all revealing isolation between adult children and their parents.
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New York Film Festival Review: ‘Stiller & Meara: Nothing Is Lost’
Ben Stiller's documentary chronicles his parents as iconic humorists and an integral part of American TV culture in the 1960s and 1970s.
Read More »New York Film Festival Review: Jodie Foster in ‘A Private Life’
In 'A Private Life' Jodie Foster is an American psychoanalyst in Paris whose world upends with the unexpected death of a patient. Was it murder?
Read More »New York Film Festival Review: ‘Anemone,’ Daniel Day-Lewis’ Exceptional Return
'Anemone' is a family drama about lives upended by political and personal violence. The characters receive a second chance at reconciliation through one brother's love for the other.
Read More »New York Film Festival Review: ‘After the Hunt’ with Julia Roberts, Andrew Garfield
In 'After the Hunt,' a professor's life upends after a Ph.D. student accuses another professor of sexual assault.
Read More »New York Film Festival Review: ‘Late Fame’ with Willem Dafoe
In 'Late Fame' a former poet (Willem Dafoe) is lured with flattery into a salon of wannabe poets, whose authenticity is suspect.
Read More »Fantastic Fest Movie Review: Two Kung Fu Films Rocked – ‘Road to Vendetta’ and ‘The Forbidden City’
Whether you consider yourself a martial arts movie fan or not, add both of these films to your must-see list. Between all that entertaining kicking, yelling, and jumping you’ll find deep emotional moments and romantic comedy.
Read More »Fantastic Fest Movie Review: ‘Primate’ Debuts on Opening Night, and It’s Scary
What if a pet that everyone in your household loved suddenly turned vicious and deadly? Find out in the film 'Primate.' It is truly scary!
Read More »New York Film Festival Review: ‘The Mastermind’
An art thief heists unremarkable works, only to have cops mistakenly arrest him for protesting the Viet Nam War.
Read More »New York Film Festival Review: ‘Miroirs No. 3’
Director Christian Petzold explores questions about spiritual consciousness, broken humanity, inner dislocation and the slow road to recovery after trauma.
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