Robert Daniels
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Sundance 2026: Once Upon a Time in Harlem, Wicker, The Gallerist | Festivals & Awards

Sundance doesn’t really start until the third day. By that point, there isn’t any feeling around for what might be good. You’re hearing

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“Sinners,” “Bel-Air” Lead NAACP Image Award Nominees | Festivals & Awards

“Sinners” and “Bel-Air” led the NAACP Image Awards when nominations were announced this morning on CBS. Ryan Coogler’s southern gothic vampire period piece

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A Preview of the 2025 Black Harvest Film Festival | Festivals & Awards

With the fall chill in the air and the holidays on the horizon, Black Harvest Film Festival is set to return to the

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Criterion Mobile Closet Steered Through Chicago International Film Festival Amid An Intense Political Weekend | Features

At all of its previous stops—Austin, Toronto, Los Angeles, New York—the Criterion Mobile Closet has attracted throngs of cinephiles hoping to pick their

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CIFF 2025: The Beauty of the Donkey, The Eyes of Ghana, Below the Clouds | Festivals & Awards

Documentary is a filmmaking approach inherently designed for remembrance. In fact, it’s the approach that most closely aligns with photography and the desire

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Locarno Film Festival 2025: “Tabi to Hibi,” “Hair, Paper, Water…,” “Yakushima’s Illusion” | Festivals & Awards

Memory is a funny thing. It can form and unwind us, ground and unmoor us. It can also trick us, probably because it’s

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Cannes 2025: Resurrection, Honey Don’t! | Festivals & Awards

After my last dispatch’s uncommon thematic synergy, I’ve come back with two films that, on their face, couldn’t be any more different in

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Sundance 2025: Sabar Bonda (Cactus Pears), DJ Ahmet, André Is an Idiot | Festivals & Awards

Unlike the rest of the dispatches I’ve written out of Sundance, the selections here are not defined by their competitive category. This one

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Locarno Film Festival 2024: Wrap-Up of a Special Event | Festivals & Awards

Locarno isn’t a film festival. It’s a pilgrimage. My journey to the legendary festival, which celebrated its 77th edition this year, involved planes,

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Cannes 2024: On Becoming a Guinea Fowl, The Village Next to Paradise, Viet and Nam | Festivals & Awards

A cool and collected Shula (Susan Chardy) drives into the opening scene dressed like Missy Elliott in “The Rain” music video. When she

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