Best of 2022 (20-11)

Looking back on 2022, I believe it will be remembered as one of the better years of the decade for film, with something for just about everyone. From huge blockbusters, to quiet, if explosive indies, to a huge influx of spectacular foreign films, and even small labors of love that premiered to disappointingly little fanfare, […]

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‘One Night in Miami’ is a powerful look at race, representation and responsibility in modern America

There’s a pressure that comes with telling the tale of a famous figure, so when you expand that story to four of the most important men in American history, that pressure only increases tenfold. Fortunately, the person handling this pressure is the ever-amazing Regina King, the award-winning actress who here makes her directorial debut with […]

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“Burning” is subtle and sensitive mystery by a Korean master

Director Lee Chang-Dong is the pitmaster of film. Instead of bringing out films year after year, or even two years, like most in his profession, he prefers to let his films simmer, and in the process allows the flavors to become deeper and more intriguing. It’s been eight years since his previous masterstroke, Poetry, hit theaters, and in that time he may have […]

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JyanWeen: Ghostwatch (Volk, 1992)

Many people call “The Blair Witch Project” the beginning of the found footage craze, but a few years before that film was a little British broadcast on BBC, “Ghostwatch”. Airing in 1992, the faux news program follows a crew as they investigate what’s declared as the “most haunted house in Britain”. What begins as a […]

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