Director Zack Snyder follows the melancholia of “A Child of Fire” with balls-to-the-wall action and a satisfying payoff to the first film’s stakes in the second installment of his delicious slice of hard-rock dieselpunk sci-fi.
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Blood for Dust

Director Rod Blackhurst makes a compelling case for the style-is-substance school of thought with “Blood for Dust,” a thoroughly engaging, if often familiar slow-burn crime drama.
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Past Lives

Celine Song’s feature film debut marries the cerebral and emotional, masterfully weaving a bittersweet tale of love, longing and radical empathy.
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In a timeline filled with chaos and divisiveness, Snyder’s film language — which is unafraid, and prefers to explore the resistance of the light in a world filled with darkness — could probably be the most timely thing to come to this world.
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A Sorry Silence

Bollywood’s best-known stars are becoming apologists for creative freedom amid an increasingly impatient Indian society.
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This is the story of a filmmaker, a franchise, and the failure of media literacy in prestige film journalism.
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His Name is Khan

Exploring what Bollywood has given to and taken from actor, producer, and item boy Shah Rukh Khan, who completes 25 years of being Bollywood’s busiest multi-tasker this June.
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Bare Necessities

With “The Jungle Book” out in cinemas, the need for understanding local film markets for culturally accurate dubs is higher than ever.
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In the words of Outkast: "Ain't nobody dope as me I'm just so fresh, so clean...so fresh and so clean, clean." No truer words have ever been spoken.
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The outdoors are neat. They're kinda like being indoors, just a bit more nature-y. If you like your indoors with more bugs and shrubberies, you should try the outdoors.
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