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“Pasolini” Movie Review by Daniel Barnes

By Daniel Barnes on May 9, 2019

Pasolini (2019; Abel Ferrara) GRADE: C+ By Daniel Barnes *Opens Friday, May 10, in New York City, and expands to other select theaters in the following weeks. “Obsessed with Banality” After playing Vincent van Gogh in At Eternity’s Gate, Willem Dafoe continues his biopic tour of tragic artists with […]

“Mustang” and “Welcome to New York” Movie Reviews

By Daniel Barnes on November 10, 2015

Mustang (2015; Deniz Gamze Ergüven) GRADE: B By Daniel Barnes First-timer Deniz Gamze Ergüven directs this passionate drama about five feisty Turkish sisters who rebel against their strict seaside family, finding that their freedoms wane as their bodies mature. After getting let out of school for the summer, […]