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Contained thrillers are a staple of modest-budget filmmaking, those tense stories built around an economical, manageable setting... but who needs another cabin in the woods? A lean, mean chamber mystery that makes a virtue of its claustrophobic confines, Brock Bodell's feature debut Hellcat introduces us to a
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In his tender, deeply New York sophomore feature Late Fame, former NYFF director and critic Kent Jones adapts Arthur Schnitzler's 1895 novella (from a ruthlessly funny script by May December's Samy Burch) about a forgotten poet given a second act by a group of young admirers.
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Manhunter: The Final Cut is maybe a misnomer, as the 40th anniversary restoration of Michael Mann's unsettling serial-killer classic is essentially his 2003 Director's Cut with minor trims, extended scenes, and a polarizing color grade that mutes the film's iconic '80s neon
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Somehow evoking mid-century melodramas, Lifetime psychodramas, Showgirls, as well as Elizabeth Berkeley's diet-pill spiral in that "Saved by the Bell" episode, Maddie's Secret is a delicious treat that doesn't follow comedy recipes. In his directorial debut, cult funnyman John Early
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I joked after the Cannes Fatherland premiere that I'd pay to watch Sandra Hüller read my utility bills, which means Robert Petit's visually immersive jaw-dropper Underland — a phantasmagorical docu-essay on subterranean exploration, poetically narrated by Hüller — is a theatrical must-see. Jumping off from