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DXIFF 2021 Review: 3212 Un-Redacted

Written by Taylor Baker 75/100 Brian Epstein’s 3212 Un-Redacted presents a damning expose on the betrayal, cover-up, and conspiracy that occurred in October 2017. Deployed in Niger ODA(Operational Detachment Alpha) 3212 who were tasked against their Captain's recommendation with pursuing … Continue reading.

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VIFF 2021 Review: Wife of a Spy

Written by Anna Harrison 60/100 Horror director Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Wife of a Spy has all the elements of a thrilling period piece: beautiful costumes, state secrets, wartime backdrop, all of it anchored by Yu Aoi as Satoko, whose determination to … Continue reading.

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Raindance 2021 Film Festival Review: The Noise of Engines

Written by Alexander Reams 62/100 Loud noises, going in a straight path, exotic colors, wild outfits, in this race a star can be born, I could be describing RuPaul’s Drag Race, alas I am not. Instead, I am describing the … Continue reading.

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Raindance 2021 Film Festival Capsule Review: Death Is Smoking My Cigars

Written by Alexander Reams 72/100 “You know: I'm drunk once again, here, listening to Tchaikovsky, on the radio. Jesus, I heard him 47 years, ago.” In 1987 Charles Bukowski scribed the poem Death Is Smoking My Cigars, an existential and … Continue reading.

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VIFF 2021 Review: Belfast

Written by Taylor Baker 78/100 Belfast-born Kenneth Branagh’s latest film Belfast is a love letter to a time gone by. Like a mid-size jawbreaker, you know what it is from the outset, but there’s no way to speed up the … Continue reading.

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Double Walker

Written by Patrick Hao 58/100 Double Walker represents another entry in the trend of horror movies dealing with the terror of misogyny inflicted on young women that even started before the MeToo movement with films like A Girl Walks Home … Continue reading.

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VIFF 2021 Review: The Book of Delights (O Livro dos Prazeres)

Written by Maria Athayde 70/100 The Book of Delights co-written and directed by Marcela Lordy is a loose adaptation of Brazilian author Clarice Lispector’s book Uma Aprendizagem ou o Livro dos Prazers. It tells the story of Lóri (Simone Spoladore) … Continue reading.

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VIFF 2021 Review: The Sanctity of Space

Written by Taylor Baker 65/100 The Sanctity of Space marks the first time either co-director/climber Renan Ozturk and Freddie Wilkinson have eclipsed a sixty minute runtime. It details the passage of the climbers on a collection of peaks that was … Continue reading.

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VIFF 2021 Review: Azor

Written by Maria Athayde 80/100 Azor is a Franco-Argentinian-Swiss co-production co-written and directed by Andreas Fontana marking his feature film debut. From the first shot there is something disorienting about the film. We see a somewhat disoriented man, surrounded by … Continue reading.

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VIFF 2021 Review: Paris, 13th District (Les Olympiades, Paris 13e)

Written by Taylor Baker 86/100 Jacques Audiard’s Paris, 13th District is a metaphorical mic drop on the anthology romance films you might know from the last twenty or so years like New York, I Love You or Berlin, I Love … Continue reading.

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