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There is a useful directness to Blue Gate Crossing, a romance shaped by Chih yen Yee with a firm understanding of its audience. In Blue Gate Crossing, Lun Mei Gwei provides the anchor while Chen Bolin introduces a contrasting energy. Without revealing later complications, Blue Gate Crossing opens from this situation: An is she or isn't she gay comedy focused on a Taiwanese teen, the boy she might like, and the girl she may love. The resulting its 1h 25m running time feels mos

There is a useful directness to Solitude, a drama shaped by Susan Kraker with a firm understanding of its audience. In Solitude, Patrick Belton provides the anchor while Mary Thornton introduces a contrasting energy. Without revealing later complications, Solitude opens from this situation: Soledad is an artist who has with drawn from society by moving into the desert. The resulting its 1h 39m running time feels most convincing whenever Solitude trusts behaviour more than exp

There is a useful directness to The Last Place on Earth, a comedy shaped by James Slocum with a firm understanding of its audience. In The Last Place on Earth, Tisha Campbell provides the anchor while Dana Ashbrook introduces a contrasting energy. Without revealing later complications, The Last Place on Earth opens from this situation: Rob Baskin, a businessman who travels to Lake Tahoe in order to spread the ashes of his late mother, meets Ann Field, a woman who'll change hi

There is a useful directness to Master of the Game, a thriller shaped by Jeff Stolhand with a firm understanding of its audience. In Master of the Game, Uygar Aktan provides the anchor while Garry Peters introduces a contrasting energy. Without revealing later complications, Master of the Game opens from this situation: In the end of WW2 a group of four Jewish prisoners trying to escape through the forest The arrive to a small cabin where the find shelter and food, but soon e

There is a useful directness to Buddha Heads, a crime drama shaped by Brian T. Maeda with a firm understanding of its audience. In Buddha Heads, Eddie Mui provides the anchor while Calvin Jung introduces a contrasting energy. Without revealing later complications, Buddha Heads opens from this situation: . The resulting its 1h 34m running time feels most convincing whenever Buddha Heads trusts behaviour more than explanation. ⁠ What Buddha Heads has to say is rooted in loyalty

There is a useful directness to Group, a comedy shaped by Anne de Marcken with a firm understanding of its audience. In Group, Carrie Brownstein provides the anchor while Kari Fillipi introduces a contrasting energy. Without revealing later complications, Group opens from this situation: Nine women meet every Wednesday afternoon for 21 weeks of group therapy in this entirely original, ultra modern probe into the American psyche. The resulting its 1h 46m running time feels mos

There is a useful directness to Waiting for Happiness, a music drama shaped by Abderrahmane Sissako with a firm understanding of its audience. In Waiting for Happiness, Khatra Ould Abder Kader provides the anchor while Maata Ould Mohamed Abeid introduces a contrasting energy. Without revealing later complications, Waiting for Happiness opens from this situation: The story of two people who cross paths in Nouhadhibou. The resulting its 1h 30m running time feels most convincing

There is a useful directness to Coastlines, a thriller shaped by Victor Nunez with a firm understanding of its audience. In Coastlines, Timothy Olyphant provides the anchor while Josh Brolin introduces a contrasting energy. Without revealing later complications, Coastlines opens from this situation: An ex con returns to his Florida hometown after three years and becomes involved with the wife of his best friend, the local Sheriff. The resulting its 1h 50m running time feels m

There is a useful directness to The Scoundrel's Wife, a romance shaped by Glen Pitre with a firm understanding of its audience. In The Scoundrel's Wife, Tatum O'Neal provides the anchor while Julian Sands introduces a contrasting energy. Without revealing later complications, The Scoundrel's Wife opens from this situation: Already an outcast for crimes she did not commit, a woman struggling to raise her two children in a small village during World War II is suspected of being

There is a useful directness to The Intended, a thriller shaped by Kristian Levring with a firm understanding of its audience. In The Intended, JJ Feild provides the anchor while Janet McTeer introduces a contrasting energy. Without revealing later complications, The Intended opens from this situation: A period drama/thriller about a surveyor and his fiancée who arrive in a remote Malaysian trading post and encounter a closed fisted ivory trader and her ill meaning family. Th

There is a useful directness to Zero Day, a drama shaped by Ben Coccio with a firm understanding of its audience. In Zero Day, Cal Robertson provides the anchor while Andre Keuck introduces a contrasting energy. Without revealing later complications, Zero Day opens from this situation: Two troubled adolescents chronicle the events that ultimately lead up to a terrifying assault on their school. The resulting its 1h 32m running time feels most convincing whenever Zero Day trus

There is a useful directness to L'Chayim, Comrade Stalin, a documentary shaped by Yale Strom with a firm understanding of its audience. In L'Chayim, Comrade Stalin, Ron Perlman provides the anchor while the principal supporting performer introduces a contrasting energy. Without revealing later complications, L'Chayim, Comrade Stalin opens from this situation: Documentary on Joseph Stalin's 1928 creation of the world's first Jewish homeland in the Soviet Union, in a barren str