Sheba, Baby (1975)
29%
3/5
“If Sheba, Baby’s dealings with ethnicity, sexuality, and gender are often crude and underdeveloped, it’s because of these very flaws, and constraints, that its intriguing elements are allowed to emerge.” –
Slant Magazine
Apr 8, 2025
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Blood Rage (1987)
73%
4.5/5
“The era of the video store is gone, but Blood Rage should live on in themed cocktail parties and midnight screenings.” –
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Oct 8, 2024
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Antichrist (1974)
14%
“The Antichrist certainly looks dynamic and foreboding as lensed by Joe D’Amato, but given how it veers from scene to scene between orgiastic absurdism, freakout ceremonies, and solemn religious speak, its wants for more seamlessness and coherence.” –
Slant Magazine
Sep 27, 2024
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In & Out (1997)
74%
“The film’s tameness isn’t necessarily to its detriment as farce.” –
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Jul 31, 2024
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Farewell My Concubine (1993)
91%
“Chen Kaige offers a definitive vision of what it looks, sounds, and feels like to realize that the personal is always political.” –
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Jul 28, 2024
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No Fear, No Die (1990)
100%
3.5/4
“As with Claire Denis’s previous Chocolat, emphasis is placed both on how the French legacy of colonialism persists into the present, as well as how Black men are often filtered through the white imagination to ruinous ends.” –
Slant Magazine
Jul 15, 2024
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Girlfight (2000)
87%
“Karyn Kusama’s film is a prescient and compelling consideration of gender identity and sports.” –
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May 22, 2024
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Bushman (1971)
100%
“The dramatic stakes of cultural and ethnic stressors become especially relevant once Paul Eyam Nzie Okpokam is arrested during the making of the film on a phony charge involving the possession of an explosive device. ” –
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May 20, 2024
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Lights Out in Europe (1940)
“It and Crisis provide remarkable examples of how journalistic integrity combines with cinematic technique to produce works that can lay claim to conceptualizing both the state of being and state of mind in these cities during this time.” –
Slant Magazine
May 18, 2024
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Crisis: A Film of the Nazi Way (1939)
“It and Lights Out in Europe provide remarkable examples of how journalistic integrity combines with cinematic technique to produce works that can lay claim to conceptualizing both the state of being and state of mind in these cities during this time.” –
Slant Magazine
May 18, 2024
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The Shootist (1976)
81%
“Don Siegel’s 1976 western The Shootist stars John Wayne in his final film appearance, though it’s perhaps just as notable for the muted nature of its regard for the pathology of violence.” –
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Apr 11, 2024
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Paint Your Wagon (1969)
45%
“Joshua Logan’s Paint Your Wagon can be viewed as one of the last gasps of a dwindling Hollywood studio system, as well as a precursor to the New Hollywood.” –
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Mar 25, 2024
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West Indies: The Fugitive Slaves of Liberty (1979)
3.5/4
“Med Hondo’s is a bravura spectacle of intellectual and cinematic daring.” –
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Mar 17, 2024
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Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957)
87%
“By initially focusing on Doc, who’s more receptive to Wyatt’s council here, the film winds up giving the men equal footing as protagonists, making this something closer to a buddy picture.” –
Slant Magazine
Feb 26, 2024
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Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
100%
“The film is an alchemic triumph of effortless story execution, pinpoint humor, and acting masterclass.” –
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Feb 13, 2024
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Dario Argento Panico (2023)
100%
2.5/4
“It’s Argento who consistently makes the most compelling and incisive on-screen presence throughout Simone Scafidi’s documentary.” –
Slant Magazine
Jan 28, 2024
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How to Have Sex (2023)
97%
3.5/4
“How to Have Sex winds up delivering on the promise of its title, as this is a truly instructive film about sexual politics, though a remarkable one for largely leaving emotions unresolved and relationships feeling messy.” –
Slant Magazine
Jan 18, 2024
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The Strangler (1970)
100%
3/4
“This 1970 psychological thriller was Paul Vecchiali’s self-conscious attempt during the waning years of the Nouvelle Vague to take the movement’s genre-defying sensibilities in a new direction.” –
Slant Magazine
Nov 13, 2023
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The Disappearance of Shere Hite (2023)
100%
3/4
“With its determination to retrace the largely forgotten steps of a feminist trailblazer, The Disappearance of Shere Hite is an essential work of archival savvy, blending popular and academic conversations with ease and precision.” –
Slant Magazine
Nov 10, 2023
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Mutt (2023)
89%
2/4
“That Feña suffers so that other trans people won’t have to may be edifying to some, but it also reduces Mutt to an Afterschool Special.” –
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Aug 13, 2023
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Heart of Stone (2023)
31%
1.5/4
“The title is accurate insofar as the film struggles to exert an emotional pull.” –
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Aug 11, 2023
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Two Tickets to Greece (2022)
81%
2/4
“The film can never quite decide to what extent it wants to be either a light-hearted raunchy comedy or a darker comedic assessment of contemporary life.” –
Slant Magazine
Jul 7, 2023
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White Balls on Walls (2022)
86%
3.5/4
“Sarah Vos creates a nearly mockumentary effect that neither fully lampoons nor endorses contemporary standards for the art world’s political correctness but lands at a decidedly more ambivalent point.” –
Slant Magazine
May 21, 2023
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Stay Awake (2022)
88%
1.5/4
“Jamie Sisley’s film looks at its serious subject matter through a maudlin lens.
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Slant Magazine
May 13, 2023
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Human Flowers of Flesh (2022)
83%
1.5/4
“There’s an emptiness to Helena Wittmann’s Human Flowers of Flesh that no amount of striking cinematography, thematic suggestion, and allusions to Jean Painlevé can disguise.” –
Slant Magazine
Apr 10, 2023
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