Articles – Film Reviews
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Review: ‘Score: A Film Music Documentary’
Score: A Film Music Documentary shows that without music, film is just a body without a soul.
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Review: ‘Mansfield 66/67’
Doc captures Jayne Mansfield’s spirit even if she remains elusive as a subject.
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Review: ‘Ginger Nation’
Comic Shawn Hitchins offers an irreverently funny comedy routine on political correctness.
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Review: ‘Jewel’s Catch One’
Doc profiles Jewel Thais-Williams, a disco owner who became a “mother” to many black gay people who were rejected by their own families.
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Review: ‘Small Talk’
Small Talk director Hui-chen Huang wonders why her mother has never opened up about her sexuality.
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Review: ‘My Wonderful West Berlin’
Jochen Hick’s My Wonderful West Berlin reveals the LGBTQ community that developed and flourished in post war West Berlin despite homophobic laws and public prejudice.
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Review: ‘The Tesla World Light’
Matthew Rankin’s The Tesla World Light, which premieres at Cannes’ Semaine de la Critique, is an audacious shock of inspired vision.
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Review: ‘Brand Canada’
New ten-part series about Canada’s “brand” and how it’s perceived nationally and internationally.
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Review: ‘Hell on Earth: The Fall of Syria and the Rise of ISIS’
Hell on Earth: The Fall of Syria and the Rise of ISIS, Sebastian Junger and Nick Quested’s new documentary, is the closest thing we’re likely to see to a comprehensive narrative about the Syrian Civil War.
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Review: ‘Long Strange Trip’
This four-hour epic about The Grateful Dead feels like a definitive work.
