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Roger Ebert Reviews

#471 November 14, 2023

Matt writes: With the awards season in full swing, there are plentiful enticing films arriving both on streaming platforms and in theaters, including Raven Jackson’s acclaimed debut feature, “All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt.” You can read Monica Castillo’s glowing review of the film here, as well as Marya E. Gates’ interview with the filmmaker […]

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#471 November 14, 2023

Matt writes: With the awards season in full swing, there are plentiful enticing films arriving both on streaming platforms and in theaters, including Raven Jackson’s acclaimed debut feature, “All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt.” You can read Monica Castillo’s glowing review of the film here, as well as Marya E. Gates’ interview with the filmmaker

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#471 November 14, 2023

Matt writes: With the awards season in full swing, there are plentiful enticing films arriving both on streaming platforms and in theaters, including Raven Jackson’s acclaimed debut feature, “All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt.” You can read Monica Castillo’s glowing review of the film here, as well as Marya E. Gates’ interview with the filmmaker

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#471 November 14, 2023

Matt writes: With the awards season in full swing, there are plentiful enticing films arriving both on streaming platforms and in theaters, including Raven Jackson’s acclaimed debut feature, “All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt.” You can read Monica Castillo’s glowing review of the film here, as well as Marya E. Gates’ interview with the filmmaker

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#471 November 14, 2023

Matt writes: With the awards season in full swing, there are plentiful enticing films arriving both on streaming platforms and in theaters, including Raven Jackson’s acclaimed debut feature, “All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt.” You can read Monica Castillo’s glowing review of the film here, as well as Marya E. Gates’ interview with the filmmaker

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Tiger 3

“They’re here to witness my swag,” growls Indian super-spy Tiger midway through “Tiger 3,” a mostly staid, but still satisfying Indian anti-terrorist thriller. Tiger is played by Salman Khan, whose square-jawed style sets the pace for the Yash Raj Spy Universe, a Marvelified Bollywood action series starring the Hindi-speaking stars of the late ‘90s and

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Black Harvest Film Festival 2023: Max Roach: The Drum Also Waltzes, Black Barbie: A Documentary, We Were Meant To, Burnt Milk

With the arrival of the 29th annual Black Harvest Film Festival, I am once again reminded of the spirit of the late, great Sergio Mims. This is the first year of a lineup not composed by him, the founder of the festival. And yet, BHFF remains just as resilient as the seeds Mims planted. Of

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Orlando, My Political Biography

Trans philosopher-filmmaker Paul M. Preciado’s “Orlando, My Political Biography” starts with footage of the filmmaker on a city street at night, wheatpasting posters with slogans, questions, and cryptic statements, and only becomes more playfully abstruse from there. The film is “political” in that politics are personal and less of a biography than a work of literary criticism

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Dream Scenario

There’s something refreshing about the plainly weird premise of “Dream Scenario”. Nicolas Cage plays a nondescript evolutionary biology professor named Paul Matthews, who suddenly appears in the dreams of his students, daughters, and people he does not know. He doesn’t do anything in their recurring nighttime hallucinations of anxiety or horror, in which people sometimes float into

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