First Love Review: Miike Maintains His Madcap Mania

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First Love Review: Miike Maintains His Madcap Mania

Takashi Miike's gazillionth film is a riotous yakuza caper that traffics in the filmmaker's impeccable balance of extremes.

“Halston” Captures American History Through a Designer’s Rise and Fall

America's first celebrity fashion designer gets the documentary treatment in an insightful treatment that still occasionally gets in its own way.

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Penny Lane on “Hail Satan?”, Religion in Politics, and Making Her First ‘Normal’ Documentary

Documentarian Penny Lane returns to our weekly interview podcast to talk about her deeply funny, insightful dive into The Satanic Temple.

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Among Wolves Review: Overcoming Communal Trauma With Harleys and Hope

Shawn Convey's doc about a Bosnian biker gang on a humanitarian mission is a meditative mood piece on war, trauma, and purpose.

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