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Criticism is, of necessity, partial. To engage with anything is to land on one side or another, where an ambiguous response is productive of further reflection (or else more telling than a straight answer). The critic is a constitutive…

A woman ritually comes to the small coastal town of Honmachi every couple of weeks. Stressed out from work, she seeks comfort and reassurance not from praying at the town’s Gokogu Shrine but from one of its residents. He’s a cow-coloured…

Snow Leopard, the final film completed by Tibetan director Pema Tseden, is a drama of inaction. A first-class protected animal in China, snow leopards can be neither killed nor captured. When one is trapped in a pen after killing nine…