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Reviews

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  Wife of a Spy 2020

  

  mmcc ★★★★½

  Really interesting how the digital filmmaking here sits in contrast to its use of classical techniques (i.e. blocking, backlights, very set bound). It's a tension wherein the digital textures re-inforce…

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  Slalom 2020

  

  J ★★★½ 2

  on its initial surface, Slalom seems to take the main route of a typical sports drama. rigorous training, negative encouragement, and jealous schoolmates thicken the pressure to win ski races…

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  Slalom 2020

  

  davidehrlich ★★★½

  The coldest and most unforgiving movie about skiing this side of “Downhill Racer” — and just as fascinated by the loneliness of bombing down the slopes with the world at…

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  Bill Traylor: Chasing Ghosts 2021

  

  Eamon ★★★★

  Bill Traylor was born a slave in 1853 on a cotton gin plantation outside Montgomery Alabama with seventeen other slaves. During the final days of the civil war, Traylor saw…

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  Bill Traylor: Chasing Ghosts 2021

  

  Sebastian Torrelio ★★★★

  Man, this is the stuff - exactly the reason I want to encourage support for the independent theater. Jeffrey Wolf's incredible argument for low production value artistry, a reflection on…

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  Test Pattern 2019

  

  Scott Renshaw ★★★★½

  I spent the 82 minutes of Shatara Michelle Ford’s feature dazzled by the kind of direction that signals an absolute powerhouse talent, to the point that the movie’s ideas almost…

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  Test Pattern 2019

  

  Mitchell Beaupre ★★★★ 4

  Check out my interview with writer/director Shatara Michelle Ford here. One of my favorite things I've gotten the opportunity to do.

  A remarkable debut from writer/director Shatara Michelle Ford. Reminiscent…

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  Test Pattern 2019

  

  Ella Kemp ★★★★

  Really special. Lucid, empathetic, impassioned yet sober. Trauma isn’t just one knee-jerk nightmare - it quietly attaches itself to everything. Particularly the ones you love. Remember Shatara Michelle Ford’s name.…