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Film Review: “A Clear Shot” Takes Aim at Exploring a Real-Life Hostage Crisis

A Clear Shot (Nick Leisure, 2019) 2½ out of 4 stars. In 1991, America experienced its largest hostage situation of all time (to this day) when four gunmen held 41 hostages at gunpoint at a Good Guys electronic store in Sacramento, California. The gunmen made several outrageous demands to the police, including asking for one-thousand-year-old […]

Film Review: “Around the World When You Were My Age” Is a Beautiful, if Long, Journey into the Human Experience

Around the World When You Were My Age (“A Volta ao Mundo Quando Tinhas 30 Anos”) (Aya Koretzky, 2018) 3 out of 4 stars. Winner of the 2019 Bright Future Competition (awarded to a promising first-time feature-documentary director) at the International Film Festival Rotterdam, Around the World When You Were My Age follows director Aya […]

Film Review: “I’m No Longer Here” Offers a Striking Odyssey

I’m No Longer Here (Fernando Frias, 2019) 3 out of 4 stars. Gorgeously photographed, even in its grittiest moments, and evocatively edited between its two time frames, I’m No Longer Here tells the story of young Ulises as he embarks on an odyssey to and from the underworld. In a nice twist on the usual […]

Film Review: “Crystal Swan” Presents Evocative View of Post-Soviet Belarus

Crystal Swan (Darya Zhuk, 2018) 3 out of 4 stars. The time is 1996, the location Minsk, capital of the former Soviet Republic of Belarus. Twentysomething Evelina Soroka – Velya for short – feels out of sorts and out of place in this unsettled era of rapid change that has left her country reeling from economic […]

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