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Reviews

Sundance Dispatch: America

By Devika Girish
January 31, 2019
Parallel histories: Garrett Bradley's remarkable short interrogates representations of early Black filmmakers

Sundance Dispatch: Beats and The Vast of Night

By Amy Taubin
January 30, 2019
Ecstasy and extraterrestrials: Slamdance surprises with a coming-of-age story and an alien invasion

Sundance Dispatch: As Told to G/D Thyself

By Devika Girish
January 29, 2019
Astral traveling: The spirit of Afro-futurism is beautifully embodied in the all-star collective The Ummah Chroma's short film

The Big Screen: The Wild Pear Tree

By Yonca Talu
January 28, 2019
Nuri Bilge Ceylan casts his attention onto the trials and tribulations of youth in his latest Chekhovian effort.

The Big Screen: High Flying Bird

By Mark Asch
January 28, 2019
The air up there: Steven Soderbergh discovers yet another profession whose practitioners’ for-hire physiques stand in for the gig-to-gig economics of his own creative hustle.

Film of the Week: Jessica Forever

By Jonathan Romney
January 24, 2019
Unidentifiable filmic object: a den mother and her brood navigate a dystopian future in this unclassifiable film screening February 8 in Film Comment Selects

Film of the Week: Glass

By Jonathan Romney
January 18, 2019
All too superhuman: M. Night Shyamalan has nerve choosing Glass as the title for a film so unashamedly non-transparent

Short Take: Girl

By Nick Davis
January 18, 2019
(Lukas Dhont, Belgium/Netherlands, Netflix, Opening January 18)

Short Take: State Like Sleep

By Madeline Whittle
January 17, 2019
(Meredith Danluck, USA, The Orchard, Opening January 4)

Film of the Week: The Heiresses

By Jonathan Romney
January 11, 2019
Rearranging the deckchairs: two middle-aged Paraguayan women cling to a semblance of respectable society amidst dysfunction