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Review: My Own Private Idaho (1991)
Gus Van Zant's breakout feature was a sojourn with queer hustlers with very different destinies
Review: Mountainhead (2025)
The disasters happen offscreen in this simplistic satire of tech billionaires
Review: Sinners (2025)
Mixing a mytho-historical setting with cultural myths and all-too-real illustrations of Jim Crow racism and resistance, plus it's almost a musical
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Anti-fascist cinema: Casablanca (1942)
Obvious? Sure. This movie about moving from cynicism to commitment is justifiably legendary
Anti-fascist cinema: Aimée & Jaguar (1999)
Erotic melodrama both enlivens and distracts from the depiction of women in the anti-Nazi resistance in Germany during WWII
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Anti-fascist cinema: Magic Farm (2025)
Magic Farm (2025)
Review: On Swift Horses (2024)
A gorgeous first feature explores the lives of two brothers and the against-the-grain wife of one of them
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Too Beautiful
Too Beautiful
Former Frighten the Horses editor Mark Pritchard writing about movies
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