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One thing that “Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother” captures beautifully is the bizarre contradictions of contemporary America. Director Bassam Tariq’s second feature takes place […]

It’s the 1980s and a 13-year-old girl who talks to God returns from summer camp to find her home for sale — no, this isn’t […]

The survival slasher “River” begins in an unconventional way. We are introduced to the killer’s first victims through voice only. We hear a young couple […]

Making a documentary about an ardent Palestinian activist was not easy. It took two years and 11 executive producers, for one thing, plus powerful producers […]

Tim Blake Nelson spent 12 years trying to bring “The Life and Deaths of Wilson Shedd” to the screen. He’d assemble a cast, cobble together […]

Jeremy Thomas put his weight behind some of the riskiest — and most fondly remembered — pictures in Hollywood across a nearly 60-year-long career. The […]

In “The Housewife,” Naomi Watts plays Hermine Ryan, a woman who bakes delicious cookies for the church bake sale, keeps a spotless house in Queens, […]

It’s hard to think of many independent filmmakers who emerged from their first feature with a voice as fully developed as Anna Biller‘s. Her 2016 […]

Two fall film festivals down, an infinite number to go. While Toronto and New York are the most prestigious North American festivals to follow Venice […]

“Ken Carter jumps cars for a living, and people like to see him do it,” declares Gordon Pinsent, narrator of the 1981 National Film Board […]