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Los Cabos 2018 Dispatch: BORDER and THE SISTERS BROTHERS, Two Of The Festival's World Highlights

At the core of Let the Right One In, one of the most memorable vampire films of the past decade, was Oskar (Kåre Hedebrant), a lonely, misfit, and bullied young boy with little attention from his divorced parents. He found...

Cannes 2018 Review: Abbasi's BORDER Blurs Lines to Wondrous Effect

When Ali Abbasi burst onto the international scene with the quietly unnerving Shelley, the world took note of a writer-director with a feel for creating an immersive atmosphere and a keen understanding of fantastical films’ capacity for dispensing understated social...

Berlin 2010: Trailer For Swedish Teen Drama SEBBE

Soon to debut in the Generation section of the Berlinale, the first trailer has arrived for Babak Najafi's Sebbe.  The story of a high school boy driven to violence, this looks like a very serious, very powerful treatment of what...