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Django
There is a useful directness to Django, a biographical drama shaped by Etienne Comar with a firm understanding of its audience. In Django, Reda Kateb provides the anchor while Cécile de France introduces a contrasting energy. Without revealing later complications, Django opens from this situation: The story of Django Reinhardt, famous guitarist and composer, and his flight from German occupied Paris in 1943. The resulting its 1h 57m running time feels most convincing whenever
Aug 102 min read
Ramen Heads
There is a useful directness to Ramen Heads, a documentary shaped by Koki Shigeno with a firm understanding of its audience. In Ramen Heads, Shôta Iida provides the anchor while Kumiko Ishida introduces a contrasting energy. Without revealing later complications, Ramen Heads opens from this situation: In 'Ramen Heads,' Osamu Tomita, Japan's reigning king of ramen, takes us deep into his world, revealing every single step of his obsessive approach to creating the perfect soup
Aug 103 min read
Woman Walks Ahead
There is a useful directness to Woman Walks Ahead, a biographical drama shaped by Susanna White with a firm understanding of its audience. In Woman Walks Ahead, Jessica Chastain provides the anchor while Louisa Krause introduces a contrasting energy. Without revealing later complications, Woman Walks Ahead opens from this situation: Catherine Weldon, a portrait painter from 1890s Brooklyn, travels to Dakota to paint a portrait of Sitting Bull and becomes embroiled in the Lako
Aug 103 min read
Horn from the Heart: The Paul Butterfield Story
There is a useful directness to Horn from the Heart: The Paul Butterfield Story, a documentary shaped by John Anderson with a firm understanding of its audience. In Horn from the Heart: The Paul Butterfield Story, Paul Butterfield provides the anchor while Elvin Bishop introduces a contrasting energy. Without revealing later complications, Horn from the Heart: The Paul Butterfield Story opens from this situation: Life and career of legendary blues musician Paul Butterfield. T
Aug 103 min read
Digimon Adventure tri. Part 4: Loss
There is a useful directness to Digimon Adventure tri. Part 4: Loss, an animated adventure shaped by Akiyoshi Hongo with a firm understanding of its audience. In Digimon Adventure tri. Part 4: Loss, Colleen O'Shaughnessey provides the anchor while Cherami Leigh introduces a contrasting energy. Without revealing later complications, Digimon Adventure tri. Part 4: Loss opens from this situation: Upon arriving at the Digital World after the "reboot", the digidestined are hunted
Aug 103 min read
Bomb City
There is a useful directness to Bomb City, a crime drama shaped by Jameson Brooks with a firm understanding of its audience. In Bomb City, Dave Davis provides the anchor while Glenn Morshower introduces a contrasting energy. Without revealing later complications, Bomb City opens from this situation: Bomb City is a crime thriller, about the cultural aversion of a group of punk rockers in a conservative Texas town. The resulting its 1h 38m running time feels most convincing whe
Aug 103 min read
Where Is Kyra?
There is a useful directness to Where Is Kyra?, a drama shaped by Andrew Dosunmu with a firm understanding of its audience. In Where Is Kyra?, Michelle Pfeiffer provides the anchor while Kiefer Sutherland introduces a contrasting energy. Without revealing later complications, Where Is Kyra? opens from this situation: In Brooklyn, New York, Kyra (Michelle Pfeiffer) loses her job and struggles to survive on her ailing mother's income. The resulting its 1h 38m running time feels
Aug 103 min read
The Force
There is a useful directness to The Force, a documentary shaped by Peter Nicks with a firm understanding of its audience. In The Force, Cat Brooks provides the anchor while Jonathan Cairo introduces a contrasting energy. Without revealing later complications, The Force opens from this situation: THE FORCE goes inside an embattled urban police department struggling to rebuild trust in one of America's most violent yet promising cities. The resulting its 1h 32m running time fee
Aug 103 min read
Manolo: The Boy Who Made Shoes for Lizards
There is a useful directness to Manolo: The Boy Who Made Shoes for Lizards, a documentary shaped by Michael Roberts with a firm understanding of its audience. In Manolo: The Boy Who Made Shoes for Lizards, Manolo Blahnik provides the anchor while David Bailey introduces a contrasting energy. Without revealing later complications, Manolo: The Boy Who Made Shoes for Lizards opens from this situation: An in depth portrait of MANOLO BLAHNIK, self confessed 'cobbler' and the man r
Aug 103 min read
Just One Drop
There is a useful directness to Just One Drop, a documentary shaped by Laurel Chiten with a firm understanding of its audience. In Just One Drop, the lead performer provides the anchor while the principal supporting performer introduces a contrasting energy. Without revealing later complications, Just One Drop opens from this situation: A film about the most controversial form of medicine ever invented. The resulting its 1h 6m running time feels most convincing whenever Just
Aug 103 min read
Tragedy Girls
There is a useful directness to Tragedy Girls, a horror film shaped by Tyler MacIntyre with a firm understanding of its audience. In Tragedy Girls, Brianna Hildebrand provides the anchor while Alexandra Shipp introduces a contrasting energy. Without revealing later complications, Tragedy Girls opens from this situation: A twist on the slasher genre, following two death obsessed teenage girls who use their online show about real life tragedies to send their small mid western t
Aug 103 min read
I Can Speak
There is a useful directness to I Can Speak, a comedy shaped by Kim Hyun seok with a firm understanding of its audience. In I Can Speak, Na Moon hee provides the anchor while Lee Je hoon introduces a contrasting energy. Without revealing later complications, I Can Speak opens from this situation: An elderly woman who constantly files complaints with the local office about the wrongs that she sees around her each day, forms an unlikely friendship with a junior civil service of
Aug 103 min read
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