The American film landscape isn't lacking for coming of age films, particularly those of the female teenage experience. Bora Kim's lyrical debut feature film House of Hummingbird explores similar themes half a world away, following South Korean teenager Eunhee (Ji-hu Park) as she navigates a ...

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If you check out Beats this weekend, the latest from Scottish filmmaker Brian Welsh (from a play by Kieran Hurley, who co-wrote the script), it will help greatly if you're a fan of the kind of thumping, driving house music prevalent at the kinds of illegal raves around which the film is centered. ...

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If the first two thirds of Miss Juneteenth, the beautifully realized debut feature film from writer/director Channing Godfrey Peoples, feel a bit quiet and underdeveloped, please do yourself the favor of hanging in there to see how it all comes delicately and triumphantly together by the time ...

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On the shortlist of actors who I'll watch in pretty much anything, Bill Nighy is near the top. Effortlessly charming and dryly funny, he consistently brings a warmth and wit to whomever he's portraying on screen. In Sometimes Always Never, Carl Hunter's debut feature film about a father grieving ...

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Elisabeth Moss is the rare actress who has made remarkable work in both television ("Mad Men," "The Handmaid's Tale" and "Top of the Lake") and film (Her Smell, Us, The Invisible Man), and her latest role as mid-century author Shirley Jackson (known for her dark social commentary and subject ...

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