David Alvarado's American Pachuco: The Legend of Luis Valdez is a conventional documentary carrying an unconventional cargo. The form is familiar: chronology, testimony, archival collage. The argument is the archive itself. Alvarado's team…
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Ross McElwee has filmed his own life for nearly fifty years, and Remake is the film where the practice answers for itself. It began as a lark. Steve Carr, the Hollywood director of Daddy Day Care and Paul Blart: Mall Cop, wanted to remake…
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John Early's directorial debut resurrects a dead form, the disease-of-the-week TV movie, and declines to treat it as a punchline. Early writes, directs, and stars as Maddie Ralph, a dishwasher at a culinary content studio called Gourmaybe…
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Alice Winocour has spent her career filming bodies under duress, from the institutionalized patient of Augustine to the astronaut drilling her physiology toward orbit in Proxima. Couture, set across a single Paris Fashion Week, hands her…
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Mark Jenkin makes films the way a cabinetmaker builds a chair, by his own hand from raw stock to finish, and Rose of Nevada is the most assured object he has turned out. His third feature folds the analog severity of Bait into the genre…
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Madeleine Rotzler, the documentary filmmaker who released her earlier work under the name Madeleine Sackler, has built O Horizon around a premise that would have read as dystopian a decade ago and now reads like a product announcement.…
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Hafsia Herzi built her name in front of the camera, in Kechiche's The Secret of the Grain and a decade of work after. Her third feature as a director adapts Fatima Daas's autofiction novel, and it reaches US theaters through Strand…
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Chie Hayakawa made her name with Plan 75, a dystopia built on one chilling premise: a state program that pays the elderly to die. Her second feature throws the premise away and keeps the conscience. Renoir, which competed for the Palme…
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Eight years after Sorry to Bother You, Boots Riley returns with the same prosecutor's instincts and a sharper sense of where the absurdity already lives. I Love Boosters casts Keke Palmer, Naomi Ackie, and Taylour Paige as the Velvet Gang,…
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