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Review: "Alcarràs"
Spain’s International Oscar nominee, Alcarràs, from director Carla Simón (Summer 1993), has been winding its way all year through film...


Why the International Oscar Deserves Your Attention (Seattle Times)
This commentary originally ran in The Seattle Times. When South Korean filmmaker Bong Joon-ho won the best picture Oscar for “Parasite”...


Review: "Something from Tiffany's"
With holiday lights twinkling and jazz music wafting through the air, New York City is on glorious display in this passable romantic...


Review: "Argentina, 1985"
Argentina’s nominee to this year’s International Feature Film Oscar, currently streaming on Amazon Prime, is an emotional tour-de-force,...


COMMENTARY: Is "She Said" the portrayal of female journalists we've been waiting for?
My answer is no, but maybe I need to "read the damn book," as the Columbia Journalism Review admonished. This article was originally published by The Alliance of Women Film Journalists . A lot has been written about the depiction of female journalists in "She Said," director Maria Schrader and scriptwriter Rebecca Lenkiewicz's adaptation of New York Times reporters Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey's book about their Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation into sexual misconduct alle


Review: "Darby and the Dead"
This film features a cast of promising young actors, but it lacks originality and falls into the trap of many high school movies that...
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