More from Keith Uhlich
‘Socks on Fire’: Film Review | Tribeca 2020
Familial conflagration begets divine, drawly comedy in Bo McGuire's debut feature documentary about growing up queer in the Deep South, 'Socks on Fire,' a prize-winner at Tribeca.
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‘So Late So Soon’: Film Review
Chicago-based artists Jackie and Don Seiden deal with numerous inevitabilities in Daniel Hymanson's bittersweet documentary portrait 'So Late So Soon.'
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‘Exil’: Film Review | Sundance 2020
In Visar Morina's chilly, darkly funny character study 'Exil,' the life of an engineer unravels after a racially motivated incident.
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‘Black and Blue’: Film Review
Naomie Harris and Tyrese Gibson star in the sometimes suspenseful, finally shallow New Orleans-set cop thriller 'Black and Blue.'
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‘The Moneychanger’: Film Review | TIFF 2019
A dapper grifter turns free-flowing cash into transient gold in Uruguayan director Federico Veiroj's thin dramedy, 'The Moneychanger.'
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‘Calm With Horses’: Film Review | TIFF 2019
A bruised performance by Cosmo Jarvis anchors Nick Rowland's feature debut, 'Calm With Horses,' a drama about an ex-boxer turned Irish mob enforcer.
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‘Heimat Is a Space in Time’: Film Review | TIFF 2019
German filmmaker Thomas Heise delves into his family's (and country's) tortured past in the transfixing documentary 'Heimat Is a Space in Time.'
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‘Maternal’ (‘Hogar’): Film Review | Locarno 2019
'Maternal (Hogar),' Maura Delpero's compelling fiction feature debut, explores the spirited drama that arises in a Buenos Aires religious shelter.
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‘Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark’: Film Review
Guillermo del Toro came up with the screen story for 'Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark,' a lackluster adaptation of Alvin Schwartz's popular children's horror books.
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‘Joan the Maid’: Film Review
The 4K restoration of 'Joan the Maid,' Jacques Rivette's two-part 1994 feature about the life and death of Joan of Arc, is a major event.
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‘Straight Up’: Film Review | Outfest 2019
Multihyphenate James Sweeney's feature debut 'Straight Up' is an amusingly prickly and personal ambi/asexual rom-com.
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‘Pier Kids’: Film Review | Outfest 2019
Elegance Bratton's raw, affecting documentary, 'Pier Kids,' which premiered at Outfest 2019, gives voice to neglected members of the LGBTQ community.
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