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The Vacation (CCFF)C
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May 17, 2023

CCFF 2023 Shorts Dispatch: The Mundanes, The Vacation & more

This year's first program of Chicago Critics Film Festival shorts focus on the dark side of family, community & living with mental illness.
Fantasia's Botanicum EroticorumF
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September 1, 2021

Fantasia 2021: The subversive erotic shorts of Botanicum Eroticorum

From the erotic to the absurd, Fantasia's adult short film showcase explores the form, function, and frottage of cinematic sex.
AFI Docs 2021A
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July 2, 2021

A Dispatch from the 2021 AFI Docs Film Festival

Documentaries from Zac Manuel, Garrett Bradley, Dilsey Davis and more highlight a difficult year taking its furtive steps back into a potentially post-COVID world.
Homemade&
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July 1, 2020

“Homemade” peeks in on arthouse filmmakers during lockdown

Netflix and producer Pablo Larraín offers a modest glimpse of quarantine life that can't escape the privilege of its authors.
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June 8, 2020

Reexamining the anti-racist messaging of HBO’s “Whitewash”

Lambasted at the time for not being direct enough about race, HBO's animated short takes on new significance in a post-BLM America.
Albatross Soup&
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May 9, 2019

“Albatross Soup” Is a Psychedelic Riddle Riddled with Clashing Tones

Winnie Cheung's award-winning short is filled with trippy imagery, but might be too frenetic for its own good.
State of the Union (Sundance)S
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May 4, 2019

State of the Union Review: Fast-Talking Through a Marriage on the Brink

Chris O'Dowd and Rosamund Pike exchange hyper-articulate, rapid-fire dialogue in an intimate, occasionally dry series from Stephen Frears.
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November 9, 2018

Prospect Review: A Thrilling, Micro-budget Sci-Fi Western

Writer/director team Zeek Earl and Chris Caldwell craft a grimy, visceral space Western about a family of prospectors risking their lives on an alien moon...