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A cool and collected Shula (Susan Chardy) drives into the opening scene dressed like Missy Elliott in “The Rain” music video. When she
A cool and collected Shula (Susan Chardy) drives into the opening scene dressed like Missy Elliott in “The Rain” music video. When she
A modern update to the Greek playwright Aristophanes’ Lysistrata, “Chi-Raq” immediately found controversy using Chicago’s South Side (particularly the ensuing bloody gang wars,
As a silent film director, Micheaux was at his strongest: His literary style (he wrote seven novels in total) imbued his intertitles with
Tragedy has rendered Linda (voiced by Melinée Leclerc) into a deeply dissatisfied child: She suddenly lost her culinary father when she was a
It’s a feeling most deeply felt in the aching reveal shared by Navorski and Warren. “So what am I seeing,” Warren asks Navorski,
The latter consideration is a lens that feels particular to Diop’s desire to give voice to the most disaffected. In this case, it’s
Ben is a failed film student who spends his days managing an arthouse movie theater and watching Criterion discs such as Ozu’s “Good
It takes time for “While We Watched” to find momentum: Shukla’s vérité approach spends the first half hour or so notating the broad
The opening is a broken canvas of dispersed events: In one instance, a girl with a pink balloon, awaiting her mother outside a
It’s easy to see why Perkins’ sharp short soon caught the eye of Tracy Oliver (“Girls Trip”), and landed on the desk of director