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Movie Review: ‘Master Gardener’ Plants Itself in Ignorance

Director: Paul SchraderWriter: Paul SchraderStars: Joel Edgerton, Quintessa Swindell, Sigourney Weaver Synopsis: A meticulous horticulturist who is devoted to tending the grounds of a beautiful estate and pandering to his employer, the wealthy...

Movie Review: ‘A Man Called Otto’ is Wholesome, but Little Else

Director: Marc Forster Writer: David Magee Stars: Tom Hanks, Mariana Treviño, Truman Hanks Synopsis: Otto is a grump who's given up on life following the loss of his wife and wants to end it all....

2022 InSession Film Awards Winners – Staff Picks

We have an important update to our InSession Film Awards. We now have our winners as voted on by our staff and writers! Note: Winners are in bold Best Picture The Banshees of Inisherin The Fabelmans Avatar:...

List: David Giannini’s Top 10 Movies of 2022

Once again, it has been a weird year. Not a pandemic year, but still oddly feeling the effects. It seemed like, week to week, I had no idea when or where movies would...

Movie Review: ‘Beast’ is Exactly What You Think It Is

Director: Baltasar Kormákur Writers: Ryan Engle Stars: Idris Elba, Iyana Halley, Leah Sava Jeffries, Sharlto Copley Synopsis: A father and his two teenage daughters find themselves hunted by a massive rogue lion intent on proving...

Criterion Crunch Time: The Goodbye

Well, we have come to it. This will be the final article in the long series: Criterion Crunch Time. And because of that, now I must attempt the impossible. I must find...

Criterion Crunch Time: ‘A Cry in the Dark’

Popular culture is a funny thing. When something joins the cultural consciousness, one can never tell what impact it will have on the art in of itself. If a movie quotation, or...

Criterion Crunch Time: ‘Saving Face’

The Criterion Channel has a certain reputation. With a few exceptions, most movies in their original collection can be described as classics (if you’re being a kind cinephile) or pretentious (if you...

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