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by Paul Attard• Featured• Film• Streaming Scene

Beavis and Butthead Do the Universe — Mike Judge

June 29, 2022
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by Steven Warner• Featured• Film• Horizon Line

The Forgiven — John Michael McDonagh

June 29, 2022
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by Igor Fishman• Featured• Film• Horizon Line

Clara Sola — Nathalie Álvarez Mesén

June 28, 2022
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by Selina Lee• Featured• Film• Kicking the Canon• Kicking the Canon

The Thing — John Carpenter

June 27, 2022
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by Patrick Preziosi• Featured• Film• Streaming Scene

We — Alice Diop

June 27, 2022
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by Josh Hurst• Music• Pop Rocks

Wilco — Cruel Country

June 25, 2022
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by Paul Attard• Music• What Would Meek Do?

Leikeli47 — Shape Up

June 25, 2022
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by M.G. Mailloux• Music• Rooted & Restless

Ethel Cain — Preacher’s Daughter

June 25, 2022
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by Andrew Bosma• Music• Pop Rocks

Florence + the Machine — Dance Fever

June 25, 2022
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by M.G. Mailloux• Ledger Line• Music

Flume — Palaces

June 25, 2022
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Album Roundup• by InRO Staff• Featured• Music

Album Roundup — May 2022 | Part 4: Wilco, Ethel Cain, Leikeli47

June 25, 2022
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by Molly Adams• Featured• Film• Genre Views

The Black Phone — Scott Derrickson

June 24, 2022
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A Decade Of• by Greg Cwik• Feature Articles• Featured• Film

An Atypical Elegance: A Decade of Paul Thomas Anderson

June 24, 2022
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by Steven Warner• Featured• Film• Streaming Scene

The Man from Toronto — Patrick Hughes

June 24, 2022
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by Travis DeShong• Featured• Film• Streaming Scene

CIVIL: Ben Crump — Nadia Hallgren

June 24, 2022
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by Ayeen Forootan• Film

In Her Name — Sarah Carter

June 23, 2022
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by Luke Gorham• Film

Lakota Nation vs. United States — Laura Tomaselli & Jesse Short Bull

June 23, 2022
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by Daniel Gorman• Film

January — Viesturs Kairišs

June 23, 2022
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by M.G. Mailloux• Film

My Name is Andrea — Pratibha Parmar

June 23, 2022
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Blockbuster Beat• by Paul Attard• Featured• Film

Elvis — Baz Luhrmann

June 23, 2022
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by Chris Mello• Featured• Film• Genre Views

Flux Gourmet — Peter Strickland

June 23, 2022
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by InRO Staff• Featured• Festival Coverage• Film

Tribeca Film Festival 2022 — Dispatch 5: Lakota Nation vs. United States, In Her Name, January

June 23, 2022
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by Paul Attard• Featured• Film• Interviews

Dissolved in a Flowing Heap of Aesthetics: An Interview with Rainer Kohlberger

June 22, 2022
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Album Roundup• by InRO Staff• Featured• Music

Album Roundup — May 2022 | Part 3: Jack Harlow, The Smile, Black Star

June 22, 2022
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by M.G. Mailloux• Music• What Would Meek Do?

Jack Harlow — Come Home the Kids Miss You

June 22, 2022
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by Michael Doub• Music• Pop Rocks

The Smile — A Light for Attracting Attention

June 22, 2022
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by Josh Hurst• Music• Rooted & Restless

Taj Mahal and Ry Cooder — Get on Board

June 22, 2022
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by Alex Clifton• Ledger Line• Music

Belle & Sebastian — A Bit of Previous

June 22, 2022
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by M.G. Mailloux• Music• What Would Meek Do?

Black Star — No Fear of Time

June 22, 2022
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by Igor Fishman• Featured• Film• Horizon Line

A Man of Integrity — Mohammad Rasoulof

June 22, 2022
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by Lawrence Garcia• Featured• Film• Horizon Line

Apples — Christos Nikou

June 21, 2022
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by Luke Gorham• Film

Rounding — Alex Thompson

June 20, 2022
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by Travis DeShong• Film

After Sherman — Jon-Sesrie Goff

June 20, 2022
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by Steven Warner• Film

The Year Between — Alex Heller

June 20, 2022
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by Steven Warner• Film

Babysitter — Monia Chokri

June 20, 2022
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by Brendan Nagle• Essays• Featured• Kicking the Canon• Kicking the Canon• Music

The Beatles — Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band: The Desolate Epithets of Free Love and Flower Power

June 20, 2022
by InRO Staff• Featured• Festival Coverage• Film

Tribeca Film Festival 2022 — Dispatch 4: After Sherman, Rounding, Babysitter

June 20, 2022
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by Christopher Bourne• Featured• Film• Horizon Line

Beba — Rebeca Huntt

June 20, 2022
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by Daniel Gorman• Featured• Film• Genre Views

The Witch 2: The Other One — Park Hoon-jung

June 20, 2022
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by InRO Staff• Featured• Festival Coverage• Film

Tribeca Film Festival 2022 — Dispatch 3: Good Girl Jane, The Integrity of Joseph Chambers, A Wounded Fawn

June 18, 2022
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by Joshua Minsoo Kim• Film

My Love Affair With Marriage — Signe Baumane

June 18, 2022
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by Matt McCracken• Film

Hidden Letters — Violet Du Feng, Zhao Qing

June 18, 2022
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by Daniel Gorman• Film

A Wounded Fawn — Travis Stevens

June 18, 2022
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by Luke Gorham• Film

The Integrity of Joseph Chambers — Robert Machoian

June 18, 2022
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by Steven Warner• Film

Good Girl Jane — Sarah Elizabeth Mintz

June 18, 2022
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Blockbuster Beat• by Steven Warner• Featured• Film

Lightyear — Angus MacLane

June 17, 2022
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by Matt Lynch• Featured• Film• Streaming Scene

Spiderhead — Joseph Kosinski

June 17, 2022
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by Ayeen Forootan• Featured• Film• Streaming Scene

Jerry and Marge Go Large — David Frankel

June 17, 2022
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by Daniel Gorman• Featured• Film• Kicking the Canon• Kicking the Canon

Hatari! — Howard Hawks

June 17, 2022
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by Paul Attard• Music• What Would Meek Do?

Kendrick Lamar — Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers

June 16, 2022
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by Fred Barrett• Music• Obscure Object

Sunflower Bean — Headful of Sugar

June 16, 2022
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by Andrew Bosma• Music• Rooted & Restless

Lyle Lovett — 12th of June

June 16, 2022
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by Kayla Beardslee• Music• What Would Meek Do?

Ravyn Lenae — HYPNOS

June 16, 2022
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by Alex Clifton• Music• Pop Rocks

Harry Styles — Harry’s House

June 16, 2022
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Album Roundup• by InRO Staff• Featured• Music

Album Roundup — May 2022 | Part 2: Kendrick Lamar, Harry Styles, Sunflower Bean

June 16, 2022
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by Patrick Preziosi• Featured• Film• Streaming Scene

Clytaemnestra — Ougie Pak

June 16, 2022
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by Travis DeShong• Featured• Film• Horizon Line

Official Competition — Gastón Duprat & Mariano Cohn

June 16, 2022
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by InRO Staff• Featured• Festival Coverage• Film

Tribeca Film Festival 2022 — Dispatch 2: Sophia, Wes Schlagenhauf Is Dying, Attachment

June 15, 2022
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by Luke Gorham• Film

Wes Schlagenhauf Is Dying — Parker Seaman

June 15, 2022
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by Daniel Gorman• Film

Cherry — Sophie Galibert

June 15, 2022
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by Molly Adams• Film

Attachment — Gabriel Bier Gislason

June 15, 2022
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by Joshua Minsoo Kim• Film

Naked Gardens — Patrick Bresnan, Ivete Lucas

June 15, 2022
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by M.G. Mailloux• Film

Sophia — Crystal Moselle, Jon Kasbe

June 15, 2022
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by Steven Warner• Film

Nude Tuesday — Armağan Ballantyne

June 15, 2022
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by Steven Warner• Featured• Film• Streaming Scene

Cha Cha Real Smooth — Cooper Raiff

June 15, 2022
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by Steven Warner• Featured• Film• Streaming Scene

Father of the Bride — Gary Alazraki

June 15, 2022
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by Steven Warner• Featured• Film• Horizon Line

Brian and Charles — Jim Archer

June 15, 2022
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by Kayla Beardslee• Foreign Correspondent• Music

SEVENTEEN — Face the Sun

June 14, 2022
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by Andrew Bosma• Music• Pop Rocks

Arcade Fire — We

June 14, 2022
by Paul Attard• Music• Pop Rocks

Liam Gallagher — C’mon You Know

June 14, 2022
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by Fred Barrett• Foreign Correspondent• Music

Otoboke Beaver — Super Champon

June 14, 2022
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Album Roundup• by InRO Staff• Featured• Music

Album Roundup — May 2022 | Part 1: Seventeen, Arcade Fire, Liam Gallagher

June 14, 2022
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by Morris Yang• Featured• Film• Streaming Scene

Mad God — Phil Tippett

June 14, 2022
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by Ryan Swen• Featured• Film• Kicking the Canon• Kicking the Canon

Lolita — Stanley Kubrick

June 14, 2022
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by Patrick Preziosi• Essays• Featured• Film

Bruno Dumont: Landscape Players

June 13, 2022
by InRO Staff• Featured• Festival Coverage• Film

Tribeca Film Festival 2022 — Dispatch 1: Good Luck to You, Leo Grande, Family Dinner, God’s Time

June 13, 2022
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by Paul Attard• Featured• Film• Streaming Scene

Good Luck to You, Leo Grande — Sophie Hyde

June 13, 2022
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by Daniel Gorman• Film

Family Dinner — Peter Hengl

June 13, 2022
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by Steven Warner• Film

God’s Time — Daniel Antebi

June 13, 2022
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by Christopher Bourne• Film

Lynch/Oz — Alexandre O. Philippe

June 13, 2022
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by Daniel Gorman• Film

We Might As Well Be Dead — Natalia Sinelnikova

June 13, 2022
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by Molly Adams• Featured• Film• Horizon Line

Tahara — Olivia Peace

June 13, 2022
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by Ayeen Forootan• Featured• Film• Horizon Line

Lost Illusions — Xavier Giannoli

June 10, 2022
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by Kayla Beardslee• Music• Obscure Object

mxmtoon — Rising

June 9, 2022
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by Noel Oakshot• Featured• Film• Retrospective

Clint Eastwood: Immovable Boulder

June 9, 2022
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by Morris Yang• Featured• Film• Streaming Scene

Moneyboys | C.B. Yi

June 9, 2022
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by Chris Mello• Featured• Film• Streaming Scene

Offseason — Mickey Keating

June 9, 2022
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Blockbuster Beat• by Matt Lynch• Featured• Film

Jurassic World Dominion — Colin Trevorrow

June 8, 2022
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by M.G. Mailloux• Featured• Film• Retrospective

Clint Eastwood: Wayward Young Men of Privilege

June 8, 2022
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by Steven Warner• Featured• Film• Streaming Scene

The Righteous — Mark O’Brien

June 8, 2022
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by Patrick Preziosi• Featured• Film• Retrospective

Clint Eastwood: Period Piece Portraitist

June 7, 2022
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by Molly Adams• Featured• Film• Horizon Line

All My Puny Sorrows — Michael McGowan

June 7, 2022
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by Matt Lynch• Featured• Film• Genre Views

White Elephant — Jesse V. Johnson

June 7, 2022
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by Paul Attard• Featured• Film• Retrospective

Clint Eastwood: A Collection of Movie Misdemeanors

June 6, 2022
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by Paul Attard• Featured• Film• Streaming Scene

Hustle — Jeremiah Zagar

June 6, 2022
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by Patrick Preziosi• Featured• Film• Kicking the Canon• Kicking the Canon

Advise & Consent — Otto Preminger

June 6, 2022
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by Daniel Gorman• Featured• Film• Retrospective

Clint Eastwood: Tethered to the Western

June 3, 2022
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by Alex Clifton• Featured• Kicking the Canon• Kicking the Canon• Music

Avril Lavigne — Let Go

June 3, 2022
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by Ayeen Forootan• Featured• Film• Spotlight

Benediction — Terence Davies

June 3, 2022
Today's #KickingtheCanon is an InRO favorite, with Today's #KickingtheCanon is an InRO favorite, with Selina digging into John Carpenter's #TheThing in honor of its 40th anniversary this weekend. "Carpenter walks the knife’s edge of narrative restraint and balls-to-the-wall gore with shivery glee." — But don't forget about We (Nous) from Alice Diop. @1xferokay is on the beat with that one. — #movie #movies #moviereviews #film #filmcritics #filmcriticism #filmcommunity #filmreviews #cinema #cinephile #cinephilecommunity
Well, it feels sort of trivial to talk about movie Well, it feels sort of trivial to talk about movies right now, and as such we're a little behind on Instagram. But we did publish a piece yesterday dissecting P.T. Anderson's 2010s run (in honor of his birthday this weekend). Peep it if you need a distraction from the fact that the U.S. is now 1934 Germany. Byline: @toastyp3ngu1n — @treshongdavis talks #CIVIL, that new #BenCrump flick: "That very tension runs through the heart of CIVIL, which strives to be a personal examination but falls short of striking bedrock. Yet Hallgren’s moving direction rousingly channels Crump’s ethos to uplifting and ultimately winning effect." — Kevin Hart & Woody Harrelson have a movie on Netflix about about them doing some Hart & Harrelson shit. @stevenwarner1980 talks about it: "[#TheManfromToronto is] a light but refreshing blast of mid-summer fun that would play like gangbusters [in theaters.]" — #TheBlackPhone is in theaters. @mollyadams2408 is all in: "After [a deluge] of self-serious horror movies about trauma & family & fill-in-the-blank metaphors, a back-to-basics horror-thriller with a sly visual hook & solid performances is a welcome respite" — #movie #movies #moviereviews #moviecritics #moviecriticism #film #filmreviews #films #filmcritics #filmcriticism #filmcommunity #cinema #cinephile #cinephilecommunity
#ElvisMovie is out tmrw. Paul calls it "Baz's Malc #ElvisMovie is out tmrw. Paul calls it "Baz's Malcolm X." "Elvis...[chooses] to engage in pure exhibitionism for its own sake... there’s an intensity to the vision here that feels all too lacking in contemporary blockbusters of this size and scale." — With Dispatch 5, our #Tribeca coverage concludes. Visit the link in our bio for takes on #LakotaNationVsUnitedStates, #InHerName, #January, and #MyNameIsAndrea. Bylines: Luke, Daniel, Mitch, & @ayeen.forootan — Peter Strickland's latest, #FluxGourmet, is decidedly not great. "Flux Gourmet’s stiff performance art world satire could use a push past its gross-out faux extremity into something actually horrific." — @krsmello — #film #filmreviews #filmcritics #filmcriticism #filmcommunity #cinema #cinephile #cinephilecommunity #tribecafilmfestival #filmfestivals
We liked Rainer Kohlberger's #AnsweringTheSun so m We liked Rainer Kohlberger's #AnsweringTheSun so much that we decided to sit down and chat about his latest effort, the conceptual framework of his filmography, influences on films, and more! Check out the full interview at the link in bio. — Mohammad Rasoulof's #AManOfIntegrity has finally gotten a US release, and @igorfshman couldn't be happier: "Ostensibly simple foundations ... are molded into something much more profound in Rasolouf’s hands..." — And our penultimate May music roundup, including #JackHarlow, #TheSmile, #BlackStar, and more. — #film #filmreviews #filmcriticism #filmcritics #filmcommunity #cinema #cinephile #cinephilecommunity #albums #newreleases #albumreviews #musicreviews #experimental
In honor of #PaulMcCartney80 over the weekend, we' In honor of #PaulMcCartney80 over the weekend, we've got a Brendan essay on Sgt. Pepper's, its psychedelic exploration of childhood, and the ultimate question: "were [the Beatles] guiding culture or were they simply reflections of it?" — #TribecaFilmFestival may have wrapped yesterday, but we still have a little more coverage in it. Today's dispatch includes thoughts on Jon-Sesrie Guff's #AfterSherman, Alex Thompson's #Rounding, Rebeca Huntt's #Beba & more! One more dispatch coming this week! — #TheWitch2 is a little overdone, but still a clinic on what American blockbuster cinema could be. — #movie #movies #moviereviews #film #filmreviews #filmcritics #filmcriticism #filmcommunity #cinema #cinephile #cinephilecommunity #tribeca
#Pixar's latest, inevitable #ToyStory entry is her #Pixar's latest, inevitable #ToyStory entry is here. @stevenwarner1980 says its no better or worse than the studio's recent spate of mid films: "Works best in its first half...[which] feels novel in comparison to the tired clichés peddled in [its] back-half." — Meanwhile, #Spiderhead is more than a disappointment. "...the end result is as flavorless as any dull, A24-branded, allegedly “elevated” genre fare. It’s pretty. It’s sometimes wryly funny. It’s trite." @colonelmortimer — "Jerry and Marge Go Large isn’t much for challenging viewers, but for the inclined, it’s quite successful at working its way into the heart’s soft spots with a warm touch and appealing sincerity." says @ayeen.forootan on #JerryAndMargeGoLarge — And it wouldn't be a Friday without #KickingTheCanon. From Daniel, on #HowardHawks #Hatari! — #movie #movies #moviereviews #film #filmreviews #filmcriticism #filmcritics #cinema #filmcommunity #cinephile #cinephilecommunity
#Tribeca Round 2, including: #Sophia, #NakedGarden #Tribeca Round 2, including: #Sophia, #NakedGardens, #Attachment, and more from @mollyadams2408, @stevenwarner1980, @misterminsoo, plus anti-Instagrammers Luke, Daniel, and Mitchell. — Then we've got @stevenwarner1980 pulling triple duty, with thoughts on #ChaChaRealSmooth (pro), the new #FatherOfTheBride (eh), and #BrianAndCharles (mostly pro). — #movies #movie #moviereviews #film #filmreviews #filmcritics #filmcriticism #filmcommunity #cinema #cinephile #cinephilecommunity
We had a lot of content yesterday, so our #kicking We had a lot of content yesterday, so our #kickingthecanon comes a day late. But it's worth it. Ryan talks Stanley Kubrick's Lolita in honor of the film's 60th anniversary yesterday: "[Holds a] quietly pivotal place in [Kubrick's] oeuvre." — #MadGod is coming to @Shudder later this week. @morrisycy took on @madphilg's beautiful work a while back: "Tippett’s labor of love [offers] nothing less than a ravishing sensory experience of lurid phantasmagoria" — Our first album roundup for May '22 has arrived and features takes on excellent new records from @saythename_17 and @otobokebeaver, and more mixed-pro offerings from #ArcadeFire, #LiamGallagher, & @mxmtoon. — #movie #movies #moviereviews #film #filmreviews #filmcritics #filmcriticism #filmcommunity #cinema #cinephile #cinephilecommunity #newreleases #lolita #albumreviews #musicreviews
In honor of the 25th anniversary this month of Bru In honor of the 25th anniversary this month of Bruno Dumont's feature debut, La vie de Jésus, @1xferokay goes long on the director's use of performance: "Dumont isn’t making inroads in some sort of nouveau school of acting; he’s creating a world." — Paul also dug into #GoodLuckToYouLeoGrande for #Tribeca, which comes out Friday. — Next up is @mollyadams2408 with great things to say for #Tahara from #OliviaPeace. — And finally, more #Tribeca coverage, with thoughts on #FamilyDinner (Daniel), #GodsTime (@stevenwarner1980), #LynchOz (Christopher), and #WeMightAsWellBeDead (also Daniel). Read on! — #movie #movies #moviereviews #film #filmreviews #filmcritics #cinema #filmcommunity #cinephile #cinephilecommunity

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