Tomorrow’s film critics today: Sierra Richter
Is there a future in film criticism? Are young people just consuming movies, or are some of them really thinking about what they mean and how they mean it? This series will introduce four high school students who might become tomorrow's film critics.
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Mistress America (2015)
This review is currently for Looking Closer Specialists only. Learn about how to become a Specialist here.
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One wild ride
I'm a nervous wreck. I saw a movie last night that had enough suspense for several thrillers.
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The Marty Party: Scorsese and Me
It's Martin Scorsese's birthday, so I'm polishing up my existing Scorsese-film reviews and restoring some that have been missing from the site for a long time.
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Gregory Wolfe Book Winners
Read the winning entries in the "We Love Gregory Wolfe" contest.
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The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928): a Filmwell dialogue
In which Michael Leary and I discuss the "sheer visual horror" of Dreyer's classic film.
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Looking Closer with Jeffrey Overstreet
(now the ears of my ears awake andnow the eyes of my eyes are opened)
– e. e. cummings, “i thank You God for most this amazing”