L.A. Weekly film critic April Wolfe is reporting for us from the Toronto International Film Festival.I'd gone into the theater knowing nothing of the Chloe Zhao's Th
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You know what I love most? Sitting in a darkened theater, watching light and color flash on the screen, wincing at an ill-timed crunch of popcorn during a silent mo
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Strong Island premieres on Netflix on Sept. 15. The tragic truth remains that all it takes in America for a white person to get away with killing a black person is
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One of the more welcome developments of recent years in independent films and documentaries has been the swing away from rough, handheld aesthetics ? which dominated
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A new analysis of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPIs) on television found that nearly two-thirds, or 64 percent, of shows examined had no series regulars o
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Is there a more telling symptom of the sickness afflicting studio filmmaking right now than the fact that there aren't more good Reese Witherspoon comedies out t
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It floats in the darkness, unspooling onscreen with a sepulchral glow. It has waited for what seems like an eternity to meet the eyes of its audience, and it senses
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It's September and TV is back so praise the Lord and pass the Postmates app, because I'm not trying to leave my apartment unless it's to protest Donald Trump. It's j
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Watching movies for a living is a tough job, but somebody's got to do it, and our film critics are up to the task. While they see plenty of stellar movies, they
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Fire Chasers premieres Sept. 8 on Netflix.The greatest surprise is the beauty. The gripping new Netflix documentary series Fire Chasers opens with visions of orange-
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With the world falling apart all around us, watching a Merchant-Ivory film from 1983 might, at first, sound like the dumbest fucking thing anybody could do right now
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In adapting for the screen the long, hard story of Colin Warner ? a Trinidadian native who, as a Brooklyn teenager in 1980, was wrongfully convicted of murder and se
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