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‘Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair’ Review – Movie Packs It All In

The year was 2003, one of the most formative years of my life as someone trying to discover their own taste in movies. The Matrix Reloaded overwhelmed the cinema zeitgeist for months. Michael Bay arguably made one of his best action films, Bad Boys II, before throwing himself into the …

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‘The Things You Kill’ Film Review: A Psychological Thriller Rendered Surreal And Slippery By A Lynchian Dream Logic

Following its Sundance world premiere in early 2025, The Things You Kill, the third feature from Iranian filmmaker Alireza Khatami, is set to screen in Philippine theaters as part of the 2025 QCinema International Film Festival. Selected as the Canadian submission for the 2026 Oscar Best International Feature Film category, …

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‘A Private Life’ Film Review – Jodie Foster’s Excellent French Story

It’s so ordinary nowadays for crime stories to have an absolutely terrific setup leading to a whimper of an ending, so when one plays its cards as well as A Private Life does it should be praised from the rooftops. In the last twenty or so years Jodie Foster has …

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‘Dreams’ Movie Review: Jessica Chastain and Isaac Hernández’s Ballet Drama

This examination of privilege in the modern American moment tries to have its cake and eat it, and while there’s nothing necessarily wrong with that, the badly-titled Dreams botches the recipe. Considering that ballet is at the center of this movie and director Michel Franco (and his cinematographer Yves Cape) …

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‘Whistle’ Documentary Film Review – An Unbalanced Look at a Fascinating Competition

In the non-fiction medium, there is a fascinating sub-genre. In recent years, filmmakers have been documenting unconventional competitions. In both Girls State & Boys State, we follow a mock representative election by high school students who are aficionados of politics. In Pianoforte, the filmmakers narrate the International Chopin Piano Competition, …

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Sisu: Road to Revenge – Depraved, Gruesome and Ridiculous, But Viscerally Entertaining

Jalmari Helander’s blood-soaked Sisu was a true hidden gem. A Finnish answer John Wick or Rambo, the title is a fitting one: it comes from a Finnish concept with no exact English translation, yet roughly means a unique kind of resilience that allows one to overcome the most extreme of …

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‘Familia’ Film Review: Italy’s Oscar Entry Offers an Intense Look Into Domestic Abuse and Masculinity in Crisis

Selected as Italy’s official contender for best international feature film at the 2026 Oscars, Francesco Costabile’s sophomore feature Familia carries the thematic preoccupations of their directorial debut Una Femmina: The Code of Silence, a crime drama loosely based on Italian journalist Lirio Abbate’s investigative book, which wrestles with women victims …

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