Captains of Za’atari
Everything about Ali El Arabi’s Captains of Za’atari seems custom-made to appeal to a broad...
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Author: Jay Weissberg
El Gouna 2021: The Verdict
The town of El Gouna is a purpose-built gated community on Egypt’s Red Sea coast just north...
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On the Job: The Missing 8
A Venice competition slot seems like a strange place for On the Job: The Missing 8, a punishingly long corruption thriller from Filipino genre master Erik Matti that’s soon to be seen as an HBO Asia Original six-episode...
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The first shot of Leave No Traces may make you think you’re at a retrospective of one of the great Polish filmmakers from forty or more years ago, so perfect is the recreation. It takes place in a shadowy Warsaw bedroom in 1983,...
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