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The new documentary 'Copa 71' looks at the status of women鈥檚 soccer over the past 115 years or so, with a focus on the first FIFA Women鈥檚 World Cup played in 1971. But the film is about a lot more than the game of soccer.
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Richard Linklater is not one of the superstar filmmakers, but since 1988, he鈥檚 made 35 movies. He鈥檚 one of the key independent filmmakers of the 1990s who鈥檚 still doing significant work now. For 皇冠网址 film critic Howie Movshovitz, Linklater鈥檚 unobtrusive style has never been so powerful as in his new picture Hit Man, about someone who鈥檚 not exactly what he seems 鈥� or maybe he is.
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The new movie Humane from Caitlin Cronenberg is a brave effort to create a horror film based in modern climate woes. It's compelling at the start but fails to maintain depth as the movie winds on.
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In 1975, just months before the celebration of the American bicentennial, Robert Altman released his film Nashville. At the time, it was taken as a provocative statement about this country. 皇冠网址 film critic Howie Movshovitz says that the reactions of his students indicate this 49-year-old movie still holds its power.
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The 28th Denver Jewish Film Festival opens on March 9 with eight days of films and events relating to Jewish life and the Jewish experience rooted in the present and the past. 皇冠网址 film critic Howie Movshovitz says that the festival takes on particular importance amid a time of rising anti-Semitism and conflict.
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The title of the new film by Jonathan Glazer, The Zone of Interest, is a bland Nazi designation for the area surrounding the Auschwitz concentration and death camps during World War II. The movie comes from a novel by Martin Amis, and 皇冠网址 film critic Howie Movshovitz calls the movie utterly chilling.
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The new film Ferrari imagines the larger-than-life figure of Enzo Ferrari, the one-time race driver and then head of the company that built the cars famous for speed, elegance and expense. 皇冠网址 film critic Howie Movshovitz says that it鈥檚 a jumbled movie of mixed tones 鈥� and that may be the point.
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The new movie 'Priscilla' from director Sofia Coppola is about the teenager who married Elvis Presley. In the film, Presley looks like a predator 鈥� not the great rock 鈥榥鈥� roll singer.
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Although the film Between Two Worlds came out in France in 2021, it鈥檚 just recently come out in the United States, mostly on various screening platforms. 皇冠网址 film critic Howie Movshovitz says that while it鈥檚 too bad the movie hasn鈥檛 hit a Colorado movie screen, any chance to see it is worthwhile.
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By design, Telluride forces viewers to make choices over which films to view during the festival. 皇冠网址 film critic Howie Movshovitz said, of the films he watched during the festival, at least two new pictures had 'stunning power.'