2019

Ruben Brandt, Collector

This clever animation will be appreciated more by some than by others.  Informed art lovers will get a kick out of the references to and depiction of famous art works, and the psychologically minded will appreciate the fundamental connections made between nightmares and child-parent issues and patients’ transferences to their therapist. Those viewers might also be intrigued

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Gloria Bell

Here they come. Hollywood is currently half a dozen or so foreign language hit films in English. “Gloria Bell” is the Americanized version of director Sebastián Lelio’s 2013 film “Gloria.” Why an up and coming director would want to revisit something he has already seemingly accomplished is beyond my understanding. “Gloria Bell” debuted at the

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Us

Following up on the kind of success Jordan Peele had with directorial debut “Get Out” was always going to be an anticipated event, hard to satisfy. “Us” will please the fans who discovered “Get Out” before it became a phenomenon and Oscar winner. What it won’t do, is make the leap to awards contender or bring in audiences who typically stay far away from the horror movies.  That doesn’t

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Birds of Passage

In a different year, “Birds of Passage,” along with a myriad of other mildly interesting foreign film submissions would have been sure bets for the Oscar lineup. However, the bar for foreign films has been raised extraordinary high now thanks to Alfonso Cuaron’s “Roma.” Colombia’s submission to the 91st Academy Awards didn’t make the nominee roster,

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