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Best of Lists
5 Favorites Redux #92: Forrest Whitaker
Wesley Lovell @ Cinema Sight
Festivals: Individual Reviews
Dear Hacker
C.H. Newell @ Father Son Holy Gore
Excerpt: Lenay’s posthumanist exploration of humans and computers is profound, quite often funny, and it’ll leave you with a headful of questions that’ll cross your mind each time you pick up your phone or power up your laptop.
Fantasia Festival 2021: Agnes
Gregory J. Smalley @ 366 Weird Movies
Excerpt: Agnes’ gets crazier and crazier, then gets less and less crazy, until it ends on a note of pure earnestness.
King Knight
C.H. Newell @ Father Son Holy Gore
Excerpt: King Knight’s satire on identity works incredibly well, offering laughs alongside a story with a sense of social purpose.
New York Asian Film Festival 2021 Part One: Escape from Mogadishu, Ninja Girl and Barbarian Invasion
Lee Jutton @ Film Inquiry
Excerpt: Below are some highlights from this year’s NYAFF line-up, including an adrenaline-pumping South Korean thriller, a quirky Japanese dark comedy about fighting xenophobia, and an introspective look at motherhood and moviemaking from one of the Malaysian New Wave’s most intriguing talents.
Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror
C.H. Newell @ Father Son Holy Gore
Excerpt: Three hours could easily be a chore. Janisse’s long documentary never feels like work because of how much ground it’s able to cover.
Awards Coverage
Oscar Preview: Weekend of Aug. 6-8, 2021
Wesley Lovell @ Cinema Sight
Poll: Remaking Best Makeup & Hairstyling, 1998
Wesley Lovell @ Cinema Sight
Video Essays, Video Reviews, Vlogs & More
Exposed: Kino Lorber’s Forbidden Fruit Series Parade a Bevy of Brazen Gender Roles
Michael Barrett @ PopMatters
Josef von Sternberg’s First Talkie Arrives Like a ‘Thunderbolt’
Michael Barrett @ PopMatters
Other Types of Articles
The Lens Recommends: Harley Quinn
Andrew Wyatt @ The Lens
2021 Oscar Season Box Office Preview: Introduction
Wesley Lovell @ Cinema Sight
Oscar in Box Office History (Week 32, 2021)
Wesley Lovell @ Cinema Sight
Poll: Now That You’ve Seen “The Suicide Squad”
Wesley Lovell @ Cinema Sight
Poll: What Are You Watching? (Aug. 13-15, 2021)
Wesley Lovell @ Cinema Sight
Preview: Battle for Afghanistan
Wesley Lovell @ Cinema Sight
Preview: House of Gucci
Wesley Lovell @ Cinema Sight
Preview: John and the Hole
Wesley Lovell @ Cinema Sight
Preview: Parallel Mothers
Wesley Lovell @ Cinema Sight
Preview: The Card Counter
Wesley Lovell @ Cinema Sight
Preview: The East
Wesley Lovell @ Cinema Sight
Preview: The Night House, updated
Wesley Lovell @ Cinema Sight
Preview: Venom: Let There Be Carnage, updated
Wesley Lovell @ Cinema Sight
Preview: Vivo, Updated
Wesley Lovell @ Cinema Sight
This Day in Oscar History: August 6
Wesley Lovell @ Cinema Sight
This Day in Oscar History: August 7
Wesley Lovell @ Cinema Sight
This Day in Oscar History: August 8
Wesley Lovell @ Cinema Sight
This Day in Oscar History: August 9
Wesley Lovell @ Cinema Sight
This Day in Oscar History: August 10
Wesley Lovell @ Cinema Sight
This Day in Oscar History: August 11
Wesley Lovell @ Cinema Sight
This Day in Oscar History: August 12
Wesley Lovell @ Cinema Sight
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