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The Perfect Candidate (2019/20)
Posted in Film, Film Review, The Film Magazine
Tagged Drama, Haifaa Al-Mansour, The Perfect Candidate, World Cinema
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Review: The Assistant (2019/20)
There are plenty of films about the artistic side of the filmmaking process, but very few about the business side of the industry and next-to-none about the daily office work involved in getting films made. Kitty Green’s THE ASSISTANT is … Continue reading
Posted in Film, Film Review
Tagged Drama, Julia Garner, Kitty Green, Matthew Macfadyen, The Assistant
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Uncorked (2020) Review
Posted in Film, Film Review, The Film Magazine
Tagged Drama, Mamoudou Athie, Netflix, Prentice Penny, Uncorked
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The Truth (2019) Review
Posted in Film, Film Review, The Film Magazine
Tagged Catherine Deneuve, Drama, Hirokazu Koreeda, Juliette Binoche, The Truth, World Cinema
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Review in Brief: Eighth Grade (2018)
Bo Burnham’s EIGHTH GRADE was one of the surprise highlights of last decade. Achingly truthful, deceptively insightful and connected to its teenage characters, it was the best coming-of-age movie in a decade of great coming-of-age movies like THE EDGE OF … Continue reading
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Tagged Bo Burnham, Booksmart, Comedy, Drama, Eighth Grade, Elsie Fisher, Josh Hamilton, Mid90s, The Edge of Seventeen
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Review in Brief: Mid90s (2018)
MID90s absolutely feels authentic, of a particular place and time. Any skater, or wannabe skater will see some truth here. You really grow to care for these kids, despite the often stupid decisions they make. They’re boys letting off stream … Continue reading
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Tagged Comedy, Drama, Jonah Hill, Katherine Waterston, Lucas Hedges, Mid90s, Sunny Suljic
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Review in Brief: Atlantics (2019)
I didn’t know what to expect from ATLANTICS. You’re drawn in with a social realist take but what stays with you is the magical realism that comes into this Senegalese story’s second half. Construction worker Souleiman (Traore) protests against unpaid … Continue reading
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Tagged Amadou Mbow, Atlantics, Drama, Mame Bineta Sane, Mati Diop, Traore, World Cinema
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Review: Little Women (2019)
There have been plenty of reviews by men that open with “I haven’t read the book but…” and I’m unfortunately going to have to add to that pile. It’s not deliberate ignorance, it’s just a classic I’ve just never gotten … Continue reading
Review in Brief: The Two Popes (2019)
THE TWO POPES works for the same reason that THE CROWN on TV works – it treats icons as people, brings them down to the level of the rest of us normal folks. The transition from Pope Benedict to Francis … Continue reading
Posted in Film, Film Review
Tagged Anthony Hopkins, Drama, Jonathan Pryce, The Crown, The Two Popes
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