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Ida

By Madeleine Johnson, Associate Editor|March 24th, 2014|

Paweł Pawlikowski's brief story about a Polish nun is a haunting Holocaust remembrance.

The Asphalt Jungle

By Marcia Yarrow|March 20th, 2014|

John Huston's noir is a deft pastiche of urban losers headed nowhere fast.

In Fear

By Marcia Yarrow|March 19th, 2014|

British director Jeremy Lovering's horror thriller never gets out of the woods.

Inside Llewyn Davis

By Marcia Yarrow|March 15th, 2014|

The Coen Brothers take a soft and highly melancholy look into the New York folk scene.

Enough Said

By Marcia Yarrow|March 10th, 2014|

Julia Louis-Dreyfus and James Gandolfini are two adults in love — maybe.

Mamma Roma

By Camilla Cahill|March 5th, 2014|

Pasolini's second feature, powered by Anna Magnani, is an ode to Rome's dispossessed.

Berberian Sound Studio

By Marcia Yarrow|March 4th, 2014|

A little warped sound goes a long way in a British horror film set in the Italian 1970s.

Calvary

By Molly Hannon|March 1st, 2014|

Brendan Gleeson is typically engaging as an Irish Catholic priest faced with a menacing dilemma.

Nancy, Please

By Marcia Yarrow|February 21st, 2014|

Andrew Semans plays sinister chords in a jagged little move about paranoia.

Fear and Desire

By Marcia Yarrow|February 20th, 2014|

Stanley Kubrick's restored first feature is jagged, amateurish and fascinating.

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