“Lost Girls and Love Hotels” is suffocating, Orientalist horse-hockey

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“Lost Girls and Love Hotels” is suffocating, Orientalist horse-hockey

Alexandra Daddario stars in a decently-crafted, but deeply clumsy and blinkered, look at modern Japanese culture.

CIFF 2019

CIFF 10/21: “My Father and Me”, “Human Factor”, “Litigante”, “Instinct”

Today's CIFF Dispatch looks at documentaries My Father and Me and The Human Factor, character drama Litigante and rape thriller Instinct.

Game of Thrones Recap: “The Long Night” Is Dark – Very Dark – And Full of Terrors

The war between the living and the dead reaches its apex in the long-awaited, but fairly boilerplate, climax of Game of Thrones.

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