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Clarissa – first-look review | Little White Lies

Clarissa (Sophie Okonado) seems on edge the morning of her party. She’s frustrated when her maid fetches the wrong plates

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Full Phil – first-look review

Many have previously said French auteur Quentin Dupieux is an acquired taste, and he has never taken that notion as

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The lurid fascination of the school shooter film

Other films instead approach the subject with more ambiguity, even perverse fascination. Films like Gus Van Sant’s Elephant (2003) insinuate near-universal teenage experience

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Gentle Monster – first-look review

Four years ago, Austrian director Marie Kreutzer went from the high of a Cannes Film Festival full of rave reviews of

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Tangles – first-look review | Little White Lies

Sarah Leavitt (Abbi Jacobsen) is caught between two worlds. On the west coast of the United States, there’s the life

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Forever Your Maternal Animal – first-look review

Valentina Maurel’s testing drama about a pair of estranged sister who reunite under difficult circumstances sadly falls back on repetitive

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The Diary Of A Chambermaid – first-look review

“Capitalism,” the writer Rayne Fisher-Quann recently semi-joked, ​“makes women of us all.” That is, subsumes our own agency, expropriates our labor,

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Colony – first-look review | Little White Lies

In the post-Romero era of zombie horror filmmaking, there are only a handful of titles that truly stand out, and one

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A Girl’s Story – first-look review

French filmmaker Judith Godrèche sadly has unique insight when it comes to the lifelong trauma of sexual violence and your

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Paper Tiger – first-look review

When Uncle Gary (Adam Driver) arrives at his brother’s family home in Queens, it’s in a shiny black Mercedes with a fleet