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Movie criticism (mostly foreign films, documentaries and independents: big Hollywood product hardly needs more marketing), very occasional interviews from James van Maanen, now 80 years old, who began his late-career movie reviewing for GreenCine, then took the big blog step over a decade ago. He covers new movies, video releases, and occasional streaming choices. You can reach him at JamesvanMaanen@gmail.com

Wednesday, May 19, 2021

We are sad to announce...

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 On May 18th, 2021, James van Maanen, the creator of TrustMovies, passed away due to natural causes. Therefore, this blog will not be contin...
Saturday, May 15, 2021

Haifaa Al Mansour's THE PERFECT CANDIDATE explores the (very) slowly expanding opportunities for women in the UAE

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Watching the many and frequent hoops that a woman -- this one a noted doctor at a small-town clinic -- in the United Arab Emirates must cons...
Thursday, May 13, 2021

The first great film of this year: Mohammad Rasoulof's Iranian marvel, THERE IS NO EVIL

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The deservedly top prizewinner at the 2020 Berlin Film Festival, THERE IS NO EVIL is a movie that constantly questions the power of the sta...
Tuesday, May 11, 2021

ISIS recruitment and "love story" -- all via the Internet -- in Timur Bekmambetov's PROFILE

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Rather reminiiscent of another entirely-online movie, Searching , which was first seen in 2018 -- the same year as PROFILE , the film under ...
Saturday, May 8, 2021

Home video debut for two mid-20th-Century British mysteries: CAST A DARK SHADOW and WANTED FOR MURDER

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This pair of  certainly-not-classic but quite-presentable-anyway murder mysteries from England (both on the same disc) comprise a nice eveni...
Thursday, May 6, 2021

Sergei Loznitsa's death-of-Stalin documentary, STATE FUNERAL, opens at Film Forum

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Of most interest, TrustMovies suspects, to big-time history buffs and Russophiles, STATE FUNERAL  -- the 2019 documentary directed by Serge...
Wednesday, May 5, 2021

Justin Price's mediocre genre-masher, WRONG PLACE WRONG TIME, hits home video

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Well, it's not completely awful. You've seen plenty worse.  And if that's damning with (not even) faint praise, so be it:  WRONG...
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