Potent Memoir Confronts Child Rape: Jennifer Fox’s “The Tale”
Veteran filmmaker Jennifer Fox’s “The Tale” addresses child rape in as straightforward and clear-eyed a manner as any film ever made on the painful…
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The Ballad of Lee Israel: Heller’s Excellent “Can You Ever Forgive Me?”
“The Diary of a Teenage Girl” director Marielle Heller beautifully translates another personal autobiography to excellent results. “Can You Ever Forgive Me?” is based…
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Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood: A Legendary Hustler Shares His Stories
Based on the subject’s candid memoir, “Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood” pulls back the curtain on the sexual escapades of Scotty Bowers,…
Read NowArt House Heist: McQueen’s Stylish Widows
Were it not for Steve McQueen’s professed admiration of the 1980s television series upon which his new movie is based, “Widows” might seem an…
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The Old Man & the Gun: Lowery Directs a Redford Victory Lap
For my money, David Lowery has been as much fun to watch as any filmmaker of his generation. He’s a veteran editor, and it…
Read NowA Holiday Special in a Grindflicks Far, Far Away
A long time ago (1977) in a galaxy far, far away (20th Century Fox) there was a film released called “Star Wars Episode IV:…
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Danse Macabre: Guadagnino Reimagines “Suspiria”
WARNING: The following review reveals plot information. Read only if you have seen “Suspiria” Luca Guadagnino’s ambitious reimagining of Dario Argento’s “Suspiria,” the first…
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Hill Looks Back at the “Mid90s”
Jonah Hill’s feature directorial debut, which he also wrote, is a textbook bildungsroman of the hetero-masculine variety, a finely tuned throwback to the “Mid90s”…
Read NowFilmworker: In Kubrick’s Shadow
Unknown to the general public but fascinating to followers of Stanley Kubrick, the name Leon Vitali takes center stage in Tony Zierra’s “Filmworker.” Vitali,…
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Turkish flix mega mix
On Thursday, November 15 at the Sanctuary Events Center, Grindflicks will present “Turkish Movie Showcase: A Mega Mix of Turkish Flix.” Tickets for the…
Read NowFirst Man: Chazelle and Gosling Take a Moonwalk
Damien Chazelle’s fourth feature follows the trajectory common to the careers of many ambitious and talented filmmakers honored with Academy Awards: the dissipation of…
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A Star Is Born
WARNING: The following review reveals plot information. Read only if you have seen “A Star Is Born” Bradley Cooper directs himself and Lady Gaga…
Read NowComedy Icon Gets Well-Deserved Bio with ‘Love, Gilda’
“Love, Gilda,” Lisa D’Apolito’s biography of founding “Saturday Night Live” member Gilda Radner, treats comedy fans to an earnest assessment of the brilliant performer’s…
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Deadly Clicks in Levinson’s “Assassination Nation”
Slipping and sliding through its blood-soaked climax, “Assassination Nation” attempts to reconcile the lurid and exploitative embrace of its milieu with an in-your-face polemic…
Read NowSevigny Takes Up the Axe in “Lizzie”
Director Craig William Macneill speculates on the infamous legend surrounding Massachusetts murder suspect Lizzie Borden in “Lizzie,” a long-germinating labor of love for star…
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Dinklage Is the Last Man Standing in ‘I Think We’re Alone Now’
Filmmaker Reed Morano’s “I Think We’re Alone Now” doesn’t match the levels of heat surrounding the tireless veteran cinematographer’s other recent successes on “The…
Read NowLGBT Film Festival Celebrates 10 Years
by Ryan [email protected] The lights are down and the energy is up at the Fargo Theatre this week as the Fargo-Moorhead LGBT Film Festival…
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Blindspotting: Oakland in Black and White
With first-time feature director Carlos Lopez Estrada at the helm, friends/screenwriters/producers/stars Daveed Diggs and Rafael Casal collaborate on “Blindspotting,” one of the year’s most…
Read NowArt and Life in “Madeline’s Madeline”
The borders of the real and imagined assume a prominent place in Josephine Decker’s “Madeline’s Madeline,” the new feature from the talented filmmaker of…
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Spike Lee’s stated desire to comment on current events through the colorful prism of a 1970s-set period piece reaps tremendous rewards in Cannes Grand…
Read NowEighth Grade: Burnham Makes Strong Feature Debut with Fisher
Elsie Fisher’s Kayla Day is the lonely but indefatigable middle-school protagonist of first-time feature filmmaker Bo Burnham’s “Eighth Grade,” a winning addition to the…
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Separated-at-Birth Brothers Meet in ‘Three Identical Strangers’
Tim Wardle’s documentary “Three Identical Strangers” shares the seemingly impossible tale of brothers Eddy Galland, David Kellman, and Bobby Shafran, separated-at-birth identical triplets who…
Read NowSusco Clicks on Our Fears in ‘Unfriended: Dark Web’
Making his feature directorial debut, “The Grudge” writer Stephen Susco scares up a handful of unnerving images and grim thoughts in “Unfriended: Dark Web,”…
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