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Reviews

Short Takes: Machine Gun Preacher

By Laura Kern
August 24, 2011
(Marc Forster, U.S., 2011)

Short Takes: Drive

By Nicolas Rapold
August 24, 2011
(Nicolas Winding Refn, U.S., 2011)

Short Takes: Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame

By Chris Chang
August 24, 2011
(Tsui Hark, China/Hong Kong, 2010)

Short Takes: The Debt

By Laura Kern
August 24, 2011
(John Madden, U.S., 2010)

Review: The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975

By Ina Diane Archer
August 24, 2011
(Göran Hugo Olsson, Sweden, 2011)

Review: Restless

By Paul Brunick
August 24, 2011
(Gus Van Sant, U.S., 2011)

Review: Ondine

By Andrew Chan
June 30, 2011
(Neil Jordan, U.S./Ireland, 2009)

Review: Vapor Trail (Clark)

By Michael Chaiken
June 28, 2011
(John Gianvito, U.S., 2009)

Short Takes: Love Crime

By Chris Chang
June 28, 2011

The Devil Wears Prada meets Diabolique as re-imagined by Claude Chabrol—with a musical score by saxophone legend Pharoah Sanders? Well, not exactly. Except, oddly enough, for the bit about Pharoah Sanders. Kristin Scott Thomas plays Christine, a cutthroat agribusiness…

Short Takes: The Tree

By Laura Kern
June 27, 2011

There’s indeed a lot of “tree” in Julie Bertuccelli’s bluntly titled film. They seem to factor somehow into practically every exquisitely composed frame, and certain segments appear as if filmed from their perspective. Even the title song features the…