If you dig deep enough, there’s a kernel of an interesting idea here, something out of Trump’s rural America: two protagonists—a 16-year-old girl and a […]
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This hagiographic documentary of the famed fashion and celebrity photographer Helmut Newton is based on interviews with him and his wife, and on uniformly positive […]
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Five Cent Cine (At Home): Museo
It’s convenient and often useful to classify films: this one’s a buddy film, that one’s a rom-com, another’s a chick flick, and so on. That […]
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This Chinese thriller has all the elements of film noir: a femme fatale, double-crossing friends, cigarettes, night scenes in rain and fog, flashbacks, a not-so-savory […]
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Five Cent Cine At Home: Cuties
Amy (pronounced ah’-mee, Fathia Youssouf) is just 11, but her life has become unusually complex and difficult. A Senegalese Muslim immigrant in France, she’s coming […]
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Zain (Zain Al Rafeea), the Lebanese protagonist of this powerful, realistic drama about life in a Beirut ghetto, is a child on the cusp of […]
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Shot in 18 days, “The Assistant” chronicles a day in the life of Jane (like everyone else, she is not referred to by name in […]