A young girl survives a plane crash, becomes a faith healer and with her father helps Indigenous people fight loggers.
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Fantastic Fest Movie Review: Amazing Surprises in ‘The Life and Deaths of Christopher Lee’
Christopher Lee had an amazing life beyond his life on the screen. This film takes you there .
Read More »New York Film Festival Movie Review: ‘Nickel Boys,’ Based on the Colson Whitehead Novel
'Nickel Boys' chronicles the strong friendship between two young Black men negotiating a horrific, abusive reform school in 1960s Florida.
Read More »New York Film Festival 2024 Review: ‘A Real Pain’ with Jesse Eisenberg, Kieran Culkin
Estranged cousins honor their deceased grandmother, a Holocaust survivor, by visiting her hometown in Poland.
Read More »Fantastic Fest Review: ‘The Wild Robot’ Explores Motherhood with Lupita Nyong’o, Pedro Pascal, and Catherine O’Hara
In our current world it’s hard to check the tech-news without running into a story about Artificial Intelligence. But what if AI could go one step further and transform into Artificial Motherhood? That’s the underlying premise of DreamWorks Animation’s The Wild Robot. The film takes you on a touching tale …
Read More »New York Film Festival 2024 Review: ‘Happyend’
Japanese writer-director Neo Sora's narrative feature film debut 'Happyend' confronts us about our political fears and seeming powerlessness in the face of looming environmental disasters.
Read More »Fantastic Fest Movie Review: ‘Never Let Go’ with Halle Berry Delivers on Opening Night
This film proves that even an extremely common, and perhaps overdone, horror premise can still deliver a powerful story.
Read More »New York Film Festival 2024 Reviews: Land Struggles in ‘Harvest,’ ‘No Other Land’
Two films, one fictional, one a documentary, concern struggles with land possession and ownership that divergently reveal how money, greed and power become the salient motivation for evicting people who have worked the land for a century or more.
Read More »Anthem Film Review: ‘Freedom Hair’ Top Prize Winner
A young women who likes to braid hair runs into powerful special interest groups who stop her from opening a salon.
Read More »Anthem Film Review: 3 Persian Films and Halyna Hutchins
The Anthem Libertarian Film Festival opened this year with three films from Iran, in its continuing effort to give Iranian filmmakers an international voice.
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