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Review of Spa Night (2016)

By Ray Pride (544) for Newcity (539) on 29 Nov 2016

Ahn and cinematographer Ki Jin Kim work with levels of color and quiet stylization that gently nudge the film into sweet moments of cinematic…

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Review of Tampopo (1985)

By Ray Pride (544) for Newcity (539) on 26 Nov 2016

Brightly colored, boldly played, serves up inspired gags at the most unexpected moments alongside course after course of exquisite culinary…

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Review of The Love Witch (2016)

By Ray Pride (544) for Newcity (539) on 22 Nov 2016

Anna Biller's blissfully strange widescreen appropriation of the trappings of sexploitation, horror and high art, is a rubicund marvel, and…

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Review of The Edge of Seventeen (2016)

By Ray Pride (544) for Newcity (539) on 16 Nov 2016

A jittery delight, an anxious, hyper-verbal, edge-of-panic coming-of-age comedy about small social fissures that abruptly erupt into emotional…

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Review of Christine (2016)

By Ray Pride (544) for Newcity (539) on 15 Nov 2016

Rebecca Hall plays the twenty-nine-year-old career woman, and her performance is akin to what Campos does as a filmmaker, filled with fierce…

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Review of Elle (2016)

By Ray Pride (544) for Newcity (539) on 15 Nov 2016

[A]ssured, savage comedy and it is shocking and thrilling and oh so funny…

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Review of Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise (2016)

By Ray Pride (544) for Newcity (539) on 10 Nov 2016

Powerful accomplishment, capturing in under two hours a comprehensive sense of the work the poet, author and activist made, and the life she…

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Review of Do Not Resist (2017)

By Ray Pride (544) for Newcity (539) on 10 Nov 2016

A piercing, panoramic look at the federal government's purposeful yet potentially cataclysmic militarization of local police departments…

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Review of The Eagle Huntress (2016)

By Ray Pride (544) for Newcity (539) on 10 Nov 2016

Cinematographer Simon Niblett captures vital beauty with exceptional vigor, not limited to a rash of scenes captured through drone technology…

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Review of Gimme Danger (2016)

By Ray Pride (544) for Newcity (539) on 10 Nov 2016

I don't wanna belong to the glam people…

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Review of Tower (2016)

By Ray Pride (544) for Newcity (539) on 31 Oct 2016

Elemental yet expressionistic, Tower is an admirable attainment, a broadside from the solar plexus, and the powerhouse ending, partially narrated…

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Review of Moonlight (2016)

By Ray Pride (544) for Newcity (539) on 24 Oct 2016

Consider the thin and thick wallops of blue... Blue, blue, electric blue. Lazy blue. Electrified blue. Wash of water…

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Review of Cameraperson (2016)

By Ray Pride (544) for Newcity (539) on 19 Oct 2016

Singularly lived-in and reflected-upon essay film draws upon her 25-year career as one of the major forces in American documentary…

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Review of Certain Women (2016)

By Ray Pride (544) for Newcity (539) on 19 Oct 2016

Yes, there is quiet, but there is calm within moments of stress and strain and trying just to keep it together through the day in a rural world…

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Review of Desierto (2015)

By Ray Pride (544) for Newcity (539) on 13 Oct 2016

As in the best genre films, larger truths and topical awareness are introduced as primal fears are stoked in Cuarón's admirably harsh, bloody,…

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Review of The Last Film Festival (2016)

By Ray Pride (544) for Newcity (539) on 11 Oct 2016

The Last Film Festival runs ninety minutes. I wish I had run in the opposite direction with unseemly haste…

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Review of American Honey (2016)

By Ray Pride (544) for Newcity (539) on 11 Oct 2016

Fireflies make a dance of beautiful light, but their life is short. Some perish when touched…

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Review of White Girl (2016)

By Ray Pride (544) for Newcity (539) on 11 Oct 2016

Despite errors made, the film's embrace of sexual agency is well, bracing…

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Review of When Two Worlds Collide (2016)

By Ray Pride (544) for Newcity (539) on 11 Oct 2016

Heidi Brandenburg and Mathew Orzel's crisp, brisk When Two Worlds Collide captures the 2009 confrontation between Peru's president Alan Garcia,…

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Review of Tharlo (2015)

By Ray Pride (544) for Newcity (539) on 11 Oct 2016

The lovely, loving craft extends to gentle, haunting sound design: these worlds are both concrete and dreamy in Tseden's eye, geometrically…

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