Quickie Review: Working Woman
This Israeli #MeToo drama centers on Orna (Liron Ben-Shlush) whose husband's new Tel Aviv restaurant is struggling to get off the ground, so she takes a job with real estate…
Review: The White Crow
“White crow," as the film informs us early on, is a term used to describe a person who is unusual, extraordinary, not like others, an outsider. A Rudolph Nureyev. For…
Review: Dogman
Bullies need enablers and Dogman is all about one such relationship. At the center is Marcello (Marcello Fonte), a diminutive and timid dog groomer, who lives for his time with…
Quickie Review: Girls of the Sun
In our #Girlpower era, a film about battalion of Kurdish women fighting ISIS in North Kurdistan should be a slam dunk. But somewhere between idea and execution Girls of the…
Quickie Review: Ramen Shop (Ramen Teh)
Following in the tradition of a spate of recent foodie flicks, Ramen Shop wraps a slight story in a culinary journey and has you drooling and wishing the film would…
Quickie Reviews: Gloria Bell; Yardie
What’s with all the remakes of decent if not exceptional foreign films lately? In recent months, we’ve seen Americanized versions of the 2011 feel-good French film The Intouchables (remade as…
Review: The Invisibles
There are plenty of films about the Jews who lost their lives to the Nazis, but this is the first I've seen about those who hid in plain sight in…
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Quick Takes: Never Look Away; Transit; Woman at War
With Arty Chick off to parts unknown to direct a documentary, it’s possible her reviews will be fewer and farther between for a while. So I will try and highlight…
Review: Styx
Styx is the story of intrepid German ER doctor Rike who's on a solo sea voyage when she's suddenly sucked into a life or death situation. What begins as a…
Review: I Am Not a Witch
In this odd little satirical film from Zambian-born director Rungano Nyoni, 8-year-old Shula (Maggie Mulubwa) is branded a witch and sent away to the camp where all the other witches…
Review: Cold War
In this passionate love story set in Soviet-era Poland, Zula, a young singer with a past, enters a state-run performing academy where she meets the love of her life, Wictor,…
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Mainstream Chick’s Top Picks of 2018
It’s insanely difficult to do a “Top 10 Movies of 2018” list when you’ve seen about 200 movies in 365 days – everything from blockbusters, to arthouse films, to documentaries,…
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Quickie Review: Border (Gräns)
You probably won't see a more satisfyingly strange film this year than Border. The main character is Tina, a Swedish customs agent with an extraordinary talent. She can smell fear…
Review: Capernaum (Capharnaüm)
"Capernaum in French is used usually in French literature to signify chaos, to signify hell, disorder," according to Lebanese filmmaker Nadine Labaki, director of this emotionally wrenching film. At the center…
Review: Roma
Director Alfonso Cuarón (Children of Men, Gravity) recreated the Mexico City neighborhood of his childhood to tell the story of Cleo, an indigenous woman who worked for his family and…