Daniel Minahan’s “On Swift Horses” follows two allies on parallel journeys through a difficult world. Told in a style that…
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Where does an electric escalator that has magically materialized in the middle of a mountainous landscape take you? There, high…
Read More »Death has a way of stirring up long-forgotten memories. Wiping away the cobwebs of the past, mourning becomes a reason…
Read More »Set and shot in the West Bank, “The Teacher” is writer-director Farah Nabulsi’s spirited paean to Palestinian resilience. Putting on…
Read More »John McGahern only wrote six novels, but in his case, six was more than enough to establish him, during his…
Read More »I vividly remember Sunday school from childhood, and the animated feature “The King of Kings” is the kind of movie…
Read More »Chicago’s Red Orchid Theatre, founded by Michael Shannon, Guy Van Swearingen, and Lawrence Grimm, has been in operation since 1993. They…
Read More »Not gonna lie, this had me in the first half. In its first hour, Tina Mabry’s “The Supremes at Earl’s…
Read More »Every afternoon, as Xavier (Atibon Nazaire) pulls into his driveway after work, one of his neighbors, like clockwork, walks by…
Read More »The opening twenty minutes of “Close Your Eyes,” the third fiction feature from Spanish director Victor Erice, and his first…
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