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Film Review – Roman J. Israel, Esq.
Sometimes the most frustrating experience with a movie can be the clear signs of missed potential and dropped expectations. There’s usually a moment with an experience like that where one can see the point where the decisions that were made turn against the potential. In…
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Film Review – Coco
It’s a careful balancing act, making a movie that both celebrates a heritage in an entertaining fashion and yet doesn’t trivialize that same culture. It’s an especially tricky balance when creating an animated kid’s movie which usually trade in generalities or quickly referenced stereotypes. Representation…
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Film Review – Justice League
With all its spectacle and bluster, Justice League opens on a low-quality shot designed like it’s coming from someone’s phone. Encompassing the shot is Superman (Henry Cavill), before his death in Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice, a boy asks him what his favorite thing…
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Film Review – Last Flag Flying
One of Richard Linklater’s greatest strengths, as both a writer and a director, is revealing deeper truths about his characters through their interactions with one another. It’s one thing to film people talking, it’s another to do it and make it feel alive, thought provoking,…
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Film Review – Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
We are overdue for another film that pits a woman, acting singularly, working against the establishment. The last film that depicted this was Miss Sloane, and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri is another welcome addition. With the current news flooded with sexual harassment claims by…
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Film Review – Novitiate
There’s been a lot of talk lately about the toxicity of film culture towards women (harassment and rape etc.) One of the possible solutions proposed is getting more women in positions of power so different relationship dynamics can take over. There are have been several…
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Film Review – My Friend Dahmer
Derf Backderf’s graphic novel My Friend Dahmer is an honest character study of a person who lacks so much basic humanity that he was barely able to function beyond whatever role society wanted to project onto him. Jeffery Dahmer was a real life monster; a…
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Film Review – Murder on the Orient Express
Murder on the Orient Express (2017) is the kind of film that seems to have stepped out of the past. Not just because it’s a period piece, but also in its execution. Director Kenneth Branagh does here what he did with his update of Cinderella (2015):…
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