Tollbooth
By Andrew Plimpton March 19, 2022

A quiet man with a dark past, quirky villagers, and a climactic bloodbath, all set in the quiet Welsh countryside.
A quiet man with a dark past, quirky villagers, and a climactic bloodbath, all set in the quiet Welsh countryside.
Werner Herzog splashes much-needed cold water on the idea that humans can simply colonize another planet if/when Earth becomes uninhabitable.
A claustrophobic sense of entrapment pervades Hany Abu-Assad’s Palestine-based political thriller.
A rare genre film that doesn’t rely on gimmicks, special effects and, frankly, audience expectations.
Keith Maitland’s freewheeling documentary centers on Michael Brody Jr., the 21-year-old heir to a margarine fortune who, in 1970, announced he was giving away $25 million.
Enter an insular, foreboding world, set largely in a Czechoslovakian seminary in the early 1980s.
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