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Old Stone | Review
4 December 2016 12:30 PM, PST
Stone Cold: Ma’s Bleak Debut Conveys the Uselessness of Doing the Right Thing
Nice guys don’t get ahead, at least not if they’re part of the working class in China according to Johnny Ma’s cynical directorial debut Old Stone, which has enjoyed a healthy festival circuit run following its premiere at the Berlin International Film Festival in early 2016.
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- Nicholas Bell
Jackie | Review
4 December 2016 11:00 AM, PST
The Safety of Objects: Larrain Revisits Traumatic Chapter of Iconic First Lady
There have been very few First Ladies either before or after Jacqueline Kennedy who succeeded in achieving the same cultural iconicity—and those who have (Obama, Clinton, Roosevelt) were not subjected to something like the traumatic chapter which transpired on November 22, 1963 when President John F.
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- Nicholas Bell
Sundance ’17: Hittman, Robespierre & Larnell Come Knocking Again in U.S. Dramatic Comp
30 November 2016 2:05 PM, PST
Last year we had Grand Jury and Audience Award section winner and current awards season no-show The Birth of a Nation by Nate Parker lead the field with some excellent selections in Antonio Campos’ opulently disturbing Christine, So Yong Kim’s penetrating Lovesong, the Daniels’ highly original Swiss Army Man and the solid father-son dynamic in Chad Hartigan’s Morris from America.
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- Eric Lavallee
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