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Review in Brief: Flee (2021)
FLEE, an animated memoir/documentary telling of Afghan migrant Amin’s remarkable journey, is some powerful stuff. I’ve heard some people find the animation somehow alienating, that it lessons Amin’s story but I just don’t agree. The style of the animation, almost … Continue reading
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Tagged Animation, Documentary, Flee, Jonas Poher Rasmussen, Oscars, World Cinema
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Best Animated Feature Oscar Winners Ranked
Posted in Film, Film Feature, The Film Magazine
Tagged Animation, Big Hero 6, Brave, Coco, Finding Nemo, Frozen, Happy Feet, Inside Out, Oscars, Rango, Ratatouille, Shrek, Soul, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, Spirited Away, The Incredibles, Toy Story 3, Toy Story 4, Up, WALL-E, Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, Zootopia
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CODA (2021) Review
Posted in Film, Film Review, The Film Magazine
Tagged Coda, Drama, Emilia Jones, Oscars, Sian Heder, Troy Kotsur
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Review in Brief: Another Round (2020)
Alcohol: the great social liberator and the great destroyer, or as Homer Simpson famously put it “the cause of, and solution to all of life’s problems”. ANOTHER ROUND follows a group of middle-class friends and teachers in Denmark who experiment … Continue reading
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Tagged Another Round, Comedy, Drama, Mads Mikkelsen, Oscars, Thomas Bo Larsen, Thomas Vinterberg, World Cinema
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Review in Brief: The Father (2020)
There have been many dementia dramas but few that attempt to put audiences in the POV of the person slipping away. THE FATHER is best seen with as little prior reading as possible, the tricky-clever ways the very building blocks … Continue reading
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Tagged Anthony Hopkins, Drama, Florian Zeller, Imogen Poots, Mark Gatiss, Olivia Colman, Olivia Williams, Oscars, Rufus Sewell, The Father
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Review in Brief: Nomadland (2020)
Arguably no filmmaker since Agnés Varda has blended elements of documentary and fiction together as effectively as Chloé Zhao. NOMADLAND’s narrative is loose and meandering, but only to reflect the Nomad on-the-move, purposeful and yet purposeless lifestyle. Following industrial collapse … Continue reading
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Tagged Chloé Zhao, Drama, Frances McDormand, Joshua James Richards, Nomadland, Oscars, Road Movie
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Review in Brief: Promising Young Woman (2020)
With PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN writer-director Emerald Fennell has crafted one of the most challenging and keen-edged debut films in years, and it’s making just the right kinds of people mad. Cassie (Carey Mulligan) spends her evenings pretending to be blackout … Continue reading
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Tagged Bo Burnham, Carey Mulligan, Drama, Emerald Fennell, Oscars, Promising Young Woman, Thriller
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Crip Camp (2020) Review
Posted in Film, Film Review, The Film Magazine
Tagged Crip Camp, Documentary, James Lebrecht, Nicole Newnham, Oscars
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Review in Brief: Judas and the Black Messiah (2020)
JUDAS AND THE BLACK MESSIAH tells a heightened version of a story that everyone should know, and tells it with righteous anger. Unfortunately some elements of the film’s abundant style do admittedly get in the way, like the depiction of … Continue reading
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Tagged Daniel Kaluuya, Drama, Judas and the Black Messiah, LaKeith Stanfield, Martin Sheen, Oscars, Shaka King
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Review in Brief: Minari (2020)
There’s no debate, MINARI is an American film – what could be more American than a tale of a family buying a farm and dreaming of living off the land? It’s astounding that the film features two of the first … Continue reading
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Tagged Drama, Lee Isaac Chung, Minari, Oscars, Steven Yeun, Youn Yuh-jung
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