East of Wall: Mixing Documentary and Drama in America’s “New West”
By Chris Knight
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ReviewJim SlotekEast of Wall, Kate Beecroft, Tabatha Zimiga, Scoot McNairy, Porshia Zimiga, Documentary, Fiction, Fiction/documentary hybrids, American, Mother-daughter
Materialists: Past Lives Director Delivers Sparkle in a Star-Studded Rom-Com
By Karen Gordon
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Between the Temples: Gentle Portrait of Grief Yields Sincere if Awkward Laughs
By Karen Gordon
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ReviewJim SlotekBetween the Temples, Comedy, American, Nathan Silver, C. Mason Wells, Jason Schwartzman, Carol Kane, Robert Smigel, Dolly De Leon, Caroline Aaron, Madeline Weinstein, Jewish cinema
We Grown Now: A Powerful Evocation of Childhood… and Recent History
ReviewJim SlotekWe Grown Now, Minhal Baig, Blake Cameron James, Gian Knight Ramirez, S. Epatha Merkerson, Jurnee Smollett, TIFF 2023, Black lived experience, Drama, American
I Didn’t See You There: Doc About Life with a Disability Offers Viewers a First-Person View
Killers of the Flower Moon: Scorsese at His Best Documents America at its Worst
By Karen Gordon
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ReviewJim SlotekKillers of The Flower Moon, Adaptation, David Grann, Eric Roth, Marin Scorsese, Robert De Niro, Leonardo DiCaprio, Tantoo Cardinal, Lily Gladstone, American, Based on a true story, Jesse Plemons, Brendan Fraser, John Lithgow
Mission Kandahar: Progressive Script Can’t Disguise Its Hell-Is-Other Countries Premise
Stillwater: Working-class Bill Goes to Marseilles and It’s No Emily in Paris
12 Strong: When Superheroes Go to War (Things Blow Up!)
