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‘How Dark My Love’ Film Review: Into the Bizarre Mind of Joe Coleman

Nearly a decade ago, American alternative artist and provocateur Joe Coleman painted a door-sized, hyper-detailed self-portrait titled “Doorway to Joe,” which reflects his personal lore, uninhibited fantasies and fetishes, and penchant for the divine and the profane. Later, he figured that the project called for a seven-foot companion portrait of …

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‘We Are Pat’ Film Review: Tribeca Alum Rowan Haber Reframes A ‘90s Cult Figure

Nearly six minutes into We Are Pat, a hybrid documentary from Tribeca alum Rowan Haber, our gaze fixates on a graphic in pink and blue gradient featuring a photograph of the director’s toddler self—naked, sporting a cute red eyewear, and waving their hand—juxtaposed with a larger photograph of Pat, the …

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‘The Rose: Come Back to Me’ Film Review: Eugene Yi on the Cost of Super Stardom

At times it’s best to encounter a movie as a blank slate, even for film critics like me who have never been put off by any ounce of spoilers. If anything, there’s a different kind of pleasure that arises from experiencing something for the first time, and it’s often ambrosial …

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‘The Travel Companion’ Film Review: Travis Wood and Alex Mallis’ Achingly Moving Debut Feature

After working on their respective short films and co-directing the documentary short Dollar Pizza Documentary, Brooklyn-based filmmakers Travis Wood and Alex Mallis are upping the ante as their debut feature The Travel Companion is having its world premiere in the US Narrative Competition section of the 2025 Tribeca Film Festival. …

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‘Cuerpo Celeste’ Film Review: Nayra Ilic García’s Debut Feature is a Poetic Snapshot of post-Pinochet Chile

In Cuerpo Celeste, the symbolically loaded debut feature from Chilean writer-director Nayra Ilic García, the past not only fractures the present and future but actively exists along with it as if they are all one and the same. The film explores that threshold, the possibility to re-encounter even something we …

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