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PRESENCE (in theatres)

Everyone, at one time or another has sensed, without seeing, the presence of an unknown entity or ex…
HARD TRUTHS (in theatres)

Director Mike Leigh has created a paradigm of an individual who makes the act of complaining into an…
THE LAST SHOWGIRL (in theatres)

Commencing immediately there is a poetic, romantic poignancy pulsating at its lyrical core; in a myr…
THE BRUTALIST (in theatres)

Director/writer Brady Corbet gifts film/art/architecture/ history lovers more than one’s digestive s…
SEPTEMBER 5 (in theatres)

“One Day in September” (1999) won the 2000 Academy Award for the Best Documentary; brilliantly bruta…
A COMPLETE UNKNOWN (in theatres)

Movie attendees have been feted to a plethora of exciting biopics in recent years: “Bohemian Rapsody…
THE SEED OF THE SACRED FIG (Persian: English subtitles, in theatres)

This film, more than any in recent memory, testifies to the miraculous, transformative power of film…
BABYGIRL (in theatres)

Written and directed by Halina Reijn (“Bodies Bodies Bodies”); at forty-nine is well-studied on stav…
NOSFERATU (in theatres)

At times faithful to the horrifyingly sensational 1922 silent film “Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror”…
THE LAST DANCE (Chinese: English subtitles, in theatres)

In Saturday’s New York Times, columnist Michelle Goldberg address the “sexual politics” of the upcom…
MARIA (Netflix and in theatres)

Director Pablo Larrain’s third tribute to a feminine icon: “Jackie” 2016, starring Natalie Portman; …
QUEER (in theatres)

Watching this nebulous, evocative film, Thomas Mann’s (1875-1955) “Death in Venice” kept plundering …