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Troll Lacks Fun
I hoped the Norwegian Netflix Original Troll would be this month’s (honorary) torch bearer of the Turkish Star Wars legacy, a film so dumb and ridiculous that it’s must-watch…
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The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special Flexes Marvel’s Potential
If the DCU’s new “Kevin Feige” approaches his new role as co-CEO with as much heart, joy, and originality as he does with his The Guardians…
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Glass Onion: A Knives Out Story Deserves Your Attention
Picture this: you’re halfway through a theatrical showing of Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery and the screen begins to flicker with a green overlay on the…
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Netflix Needs More Films Like The Wonder
The Wonder, a Florence Pugh-studded period drama with perfectly boring cinematography, is precisely the type of film Netflix needs more of: a truly memorable low-budget…
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Another Middling Hindi-Language Remake
The Hindi-language Mili will feel like déjà vu if you’re at least mildly into Indian cinema, even if you never saw the original Malayalam-language film…
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House of the Dragon Returns to Form
With a virtually unaltered Game of Thrones opening theme and a lackluster first few episodes, I withheld expectations from House of the Dragon. Ramin Djawadi’s theme for the…
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Slither and the Arrival of James Gunn
James Gunn was my first favorite director. And while I know this statement is likely a testament to both my young age and not falling…
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BPFF Dispatch: Hush (2022) dir. Samar Qutpy / Salma’s Home (2022) dir. Hanadi Elyan
One doesn’t expect to go into a screening of two small-budget Palestinian dramas and to come out hating Disney and Netflix even more… but what I learned at Thursday night’s double screening of Samar Qupty’s narrative short Hush and Hanadi Elyan’s feature length Salma’s Home is that one must always be prepared to despise the Big Mouse.
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BPFF Review: Boycott (2022)
Available online through the Boston Palestine Film Festival, Brazilian documentary filmmaker Julia Bacha’s newest educational piece Boycott probes and de-legitimizes the anti-BDS (Boycott, Divestment, and…
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BPFF Review: Huda’s Salon
Like a Greene novel, Huda’s Salon has its share of suicides and suicides gone amiss; affairs, perceived affairs, and could’ve-been affairs; and, of course, espionage and treason.
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BPFF Review: Farha
The young actress playing the title character appears to be a first-time performer and can’t be much older than her character—a rather astonishing gamble on…
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BPFF Review: Little Palestine: Diary of a Siege
A little over a year ago, Yarmouk was the largest Palestinian refugee camp in the world. A long-term siege by Syrian forces that killed 181…
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