In Anita Rocha da Silveira’s haunting Medusa, purity and violence collide in a surreal evangelical town where masked young women hunt “sinners” in God’s name — until one follower starts to see the monstrous truth behind the masks.
by Charles Kirkland Jr. A hitman goes to the extreme to take out his mark in the crime-action thriller, Copshop.
by Kristen Lopez | IndieWire “Chinatown doesn’t change for anybody,” says Jade Wu’s Dai Mah late in Evan Jackson Leong’s “Snakehead,” the kind of line [read more]
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by Jared Mobarak | The Film Stage Frank Farelli (Pål Sverre Hagen) has been unemployed in a dying town for quite some time.
by Christopher Vourlias | Variety For the first time in its 46-year history, a Tanzanian film is part of the official selection of the Toronto Film [read more]
By Dennis Harvey | Variety Among authors who didn’t live to witness their own success, Louis Hemon is a particularly unfortunate case — his novel “Maria [read more]
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