A lot of reviews today. In short: #thefallguyfilm is pretty good at everything except action; #Unfrosted is good at nothing; #Infested is the best creature feature in a minute; plus thoughts on a trio of very different docs: #Tiger , #TheContestant & #Lyd .
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With Ryûsuke Hamaguchi's Evil Does Not Exist hitting U.S. theaters on Friday and Hirokazu Kore-eda's Monster fresh off a trio of Japan Academy Film awards, Theo Rollason took an eye to both within the context of the Ebert-coined empathy machine of cinema.
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We've been lazy with the tweeting for the last week+, but we've still been publishing. Catch up with our takes on #SasquatchSunset , @Wildcat, #Humane , #rebelmoonpart2 , #AbigailMovie , #ArtCollege1994 , & Joanna Arnow's The Feeling..., which might end up our favorite film of the year.

This week at In Review Online, I revisited Dogville, which just turned 20 and happens to be one of Lars von Trier’s greatest achievements:
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Very excited to share that the former President of Tibet will be speaking at the next screening in my film series. This Friday @ 6PM. If you’re in the Boston area, come out for this one.

#ThePeoplesJoker is the best superhero film to arrive in years and years. esmé holden 🤍 sat down with Vera🃏 to discuss queer fairy tales, collaborative art-making, the film's journey from mixed-media collage movie to pop culture-filtered memoir, & more!
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Happy 20th, Kill Bill: Vol 2. Revisited this week for In Review Online:
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Eclipse day is here. Alex F 🇵🇸 took the opportunity to write about Kevin Jerome Everson's series of eclipse films. No special glasses required.

'Like an eclipse, cinema is a gathering of people to watch the movement of light through time and space.'
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We wanted to wait until the next theatrical release for Lav Diaz to publish, but those are regrettably slowing down in frequency. So just because, some Saturday reading for you: Joshua Bogatin talking with Lav Diaz about When the Waves Are Gone.
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#DevPatel 's #MonkeyMan has some things going for it, but ultimately it's 'an uneven movie whose strengths seem to come directly from its obviously passionate creator, but ... often get in the way of genre demands...' — matt lynch

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I wrote about The People's Joker for In Review Online, out this Friday from Altered Innocence
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I had the pleasure of reviewing Jeff Rutherford's A PERFECT DAY FOR CARIBOU for In Review Online. Premiered Locarno Film Festival in 2022 and is finally out on VOD/Physical tomorrow. Beautiful performances, stunning imagery, a rumination on broken family.
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#GodzillaXKongTheNewEmpireTH is pretty atrocious. In fact, matt lynch might just be over the kaiju film after this...

'The New Empire is so, so tedious. It shouldn’t take so much explaining to make up a reason for two monsters to smash each other.'
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#FreeTime is currently in theaters. Joshua Bogatin sat down with director Ryan Martin Brown and producer Mackenzie Jamieson to discuss the trials of first-time feature filmmaking, the use of improv, the inconvenience of three-story walk-ups, and more.
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If you haven't been paying close attention, Chris Cassingham has been covering select titles from the Dox:Award program at this year's cphdox.

A good place to start is with Chris' thoughts on fest award-winner The Flats.
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