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Beneath the Harvest Sky
There is a useful directness to Beneath the Harvest Sky, a crime drama shaped by Aron Gaudet with a firm understanding of its audience. In Beneath the Harvest Sky, Emory Cohen provides the anchor while Callan McAuliffe introduces a contrasting energy. Without revealing later complications, Beneath the Harvest Sky opens from this situation: A teen drama set during the fall potato harvest in a small northern Maine town. The resulting its 1h 56m running time feels most convincin
Aug 103 min read
Underdogs
There is a useful directness to Underdogs, a sports drama shaped by Doug Dearth with a firm understanding of its audience. In Underdogs, D.B. Sweeney provides the anchor while William Mapother introduces a contrasting energy. Without revealing later complications, Underdogs opens from this situation: Set in rural Ohio, the birthplace of football, a small town high school football team rises to play their cross town rival, a perennial powerhouse, while standing up for an entir
Aug 103 min read
Camille Claudel 1915
There is a useful directness to Camille Claudel 1915, a biographical drama shaped by Bruno Dumont with a firm understanding of its audience. In Camille Claudel 1915, Juliette Binoche provides the anchor while Jean Luc Vincent introduces a contrasting energy. Without revealing later complications, Camille Claudel 1915 opens from this situation: Winter, 1915. The resulting its 1h 35m running time feels most convincing whenever Camille Claudel 1915 trusts behaviour more than exp
Aug 103 min read
Touchy Feely
There is a useful directness to Touchy Feely, a comedy shaped by Lynn Shelton with a firm understanding of its audience. In Touchy Feely, Rosemarie DeWitt provides the anchor while Elliot Page introduces a contrasting energy. Without revealing later complications, Touchy Feely opens from this situation: A massage therapist is unable to do her job when stricken with a mysterious and sudden aversion to bodily contact. The resulting its 1h 29m running time feels most convincing
Aug 103 min read
Redemption
There is a useful directness to Redemption, an action film shaped by Steven Knight with a firm understanding of its audience. In Redemption, Jason Statham provides the anchor while Agata Buzek introduces a contrasting energy. Without revealing later complications, Redemption opens from this situation: A damaged ex special forces soldier navigating London's criminal underworld seizes an opportunity to assume another man's identity. The resulting its 1h 40m running time feels m
Aug 102 min read
The Mafia Kills Only in Summer
There is a useful directness to The Mafia Kills Only in Summer, a comedy shaped by Pif with a firm understanding of its audience. In The Mafia Kills Only in Summer, Cristiana Capotondi provides the anchor while Pif introduces a contrasting energy. Without revealing later complications, The Mafia Kills Only in Summer opens from this situation: Palermo in the 1970s. The resulting its 1h 30m running time feels most convincing whenever The Mafia Kills Only in Summer trusts behavi
Aug 103 min read
Savannah
There is a useful directness to Savannah, a romance shaped by Annette Haywood Carter with a firm understanding of its audience. In Savannah, Jim Caviezel provides the anchor while Chiwetel Ejiofor introduces a contrasting energy. Without revealing later complications, Savannah opens from this situation: Drama about the friendship between an Oxford educated Southerner and a former black slave in turn of the century Savannah. The resulting its 1h 41m running time feels most con
Aug 102 min read
Big Sur
There is a useful directness to Big Sur, a romance shaped by Michael Polish with a firm understanding of its audience. In Big Sur, Jean Marc Barr provides the anchor while Kate Bosworth introduces a contrasting energy. Without revealing later complications, Big Sur opens from this situation: A recounting of Jack Kerouac's three sojourns to the cabin in Big Sur owned by his friend, poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti. The resulting its 1h 21m running time feels most convincing whenever
Aug 103 min read
Ip Man: The Final Fight
There is a useful directness to Ip Man: The Final Fight, an action film shaped by Herman Yau with a firm understanding of its audience. In Ip Man: The Final Fight, Anthony Chau Sang Wong provides the anchor while Gillian Chung introduces a contrasting energy. Without revealing later complications, Ip Man: The Final Fight opens from this situation: In postwar Hong Kong, legendary Wing Chun grandmaster Ip Man is reluctantly called into action once more, when what begin as simpl
Aug 103 min read
Herb & Dorothy 50X50
There is a useful directness to Herb & Dorothy 50X50, a documentary shaped by Megumi Sasaki with a firm understanding of its audience. In Herb & Dorothy 50X50, Herbert Vogel provides the anchor while Dorothy Vogel introduces a contrasting energy. Without revealing later complications, Herb & Dorothy 50X50 opens from this situation: A follow up to the documentary Herb & Dorothy, that captures an ordinary couple's extraordinary gift of art to the nation as they close the door o
Aug 103 min read
The Expedition to the End of the World
There is a useful directness to The Expedition to the End of the World, a documentary shaped by Daniel Dencik with a firm understanding of its audience. In The Expedition to the End of the World, Per Bak Jensen provides the anchor while Jonas Bergsøe introduces a contrasting energy. Without revealing later complications, The Expedition to the End of the World opens from this situation: A grand and adventurous journey of discovery to the last white areas of the world map. The
Aug 103 min read
Child of God
There is a useful directness to Child of God, a thriller shaped by James Franco with a firm understanding of its audience. In Child of God, Scott Haze provides the anchor while Tim Blake Nelson introduces a contrasting energy. Without revealing later complications, Child of God opens from this situation: A dispossessed, violent man's disastrous attempt to exist outside the social order. The resulting its 1h 44m running time feels most convincing whenever Child of God trusts b
Aug 103 min read
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