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I, Portrait (2019) Film Review

In I, Portrait, writer/director/performer Nathan Hill visibly tries to apply everything he’s learned in the past. He tries to shed ...
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Breakup Season (2024) Film Review

Breakup Season is an honest depiction of disaster, the size of which is only visible from the perspective of its ...
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JAPAN CUTS 2024 Movie Review: Whale Bones (2023)

Takamasa Oe's “Whale Bones” (Japanese: 鯨の骨), which recently had its North American Premiere at this year’s JAPAN CUTS, plays like ...
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Step Back, Doors Closing (2024) Film Review

There's a good reason why romantic comedies are often thrown to the very bottom of noteworthy film lists. The reality ...
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Anywhere the Wind Blows (2024) Short Film Review

There is nothing more personal than trauma. Conflicts are universal, relationships flow at the same pace as others, and malice ...
Trust in Love

Trust in Love (2024) Film Review

Trust in Love, by director Mick Davis, is a semi-biographical journey about the life of Jimi Petulla. Petulla, an educator ...
Books & Drinks

Books & Drinks (2024) Film Review

In the huge world of romantic comedies, films like Books & Drinks tend to get lost. Usually, writers are restrained ...
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You, Me & Her (2023) Film Review

Rom-coms are supposed to be anything but believable. Since the conception of the genre, as viewers we've sailed through countless ...
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Katie’s Mom (2023) Film Review

You may agree or not with some of Hollywood's riskiest stories. It always depends on filmmakers that can sell you ...
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Ask Me to Dance (2022) Film Review

There’s a specific scene in Ask Me To Dance that translates the awkward feeling I got with its shallow and ...
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The Valet (2022) Film Review

On the surface, Richard Wong’s The Valet feels too much like something we’ve seen before. Ugly, poor guy who meets ...
I'll find you still

I’ll Find You (2022) Film Review

Using World War II as a context for a romance film isn’t easy. You have to balance every single dramatic ...

Goodbye Petrushka (2022) Film Review

In today’s film industry, films that have little to no social commentary are unusual. It seems we have forgotten films ...
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The Critic (2022) Short Film Review

From the very beginning, the short feature The Critic is very adamant on being what it really is: a romantic ...
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Covid 19 Ground Zero (2022) Film Review

Up to this point, the few films about the Covid crisis that have come out have to comply with a ...