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Bohemian Rhapsody movie review: dynamite with a laser beam

Tue, Oct 30, 2018
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Rami Malek brings warmth, humor, and a down-to-earth humanity to the larger-than-life Freddie Mercury. But it is the power of Queen’s music — the rousing good cheer, its sheer rock ’n’ roll joy — that fills up this pure brash entertainment.

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What They Had movie review: family ties and lies

Sun, Oct 28, 2018
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Simultaneously sharp and tender portrait of longstanding family squabbles and resentments finally coming to a head. Achingly affecting performances and poignant details ground it in melancholy authenticity.

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movies by or about women opening US/Can from Fri Oct 26

Fri, Oct 26, 2018
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Abby Epstein directs medical-marijuana documentary Weed the People; Frances Causey directs racism documentary The Long Shadow; more…

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Weed the People documentary review: do-it-yourself medicine in 21st-century America

Fri, Oct 26, 2018
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A smart, vitally important documentary look at medical marijuana, how it is helping real Americans right now, and why Big Pharma has ignored its healing properties.

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I’m hosting a postscreening Q&A re ‘Dead in a Week’ on Sunday in London…

Fri, Oct 26, 2018
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Very last minute, but this has just come together.

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movies by or about women opening UK/Ire from Mon Oct 22

Fri, Oct 26, 2018
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Sandi Tan writes and directs documentary Shirkers; Audrey Wells writes and Amandla Stenberg stars in teen drama The Hate U Give; more…

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Beautiful Boy movie review: emotionally wrenching drug depiction (LFF 2018)

Thu, Oct 25, 2018
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This portrait of drug addiction and its impact on a family may be Hollywood sleek and smooth, but its authenticity is in the empathy, in the lack of judgment. Steve Carell is absolutely heartbreaking.

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Fahrenheit 11/9 documentary review: America is burning (LFF 2018)

Tue, Oct 23, 2018
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In his latest righteous broadside, Michael Moore takes on Donald Trump as but a symptom of the political rot in the United States. Upsetting, enraging, exhausting… which is just as it should be.

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Hunter Killer movie review: dead in the water

Sun, Oct 21, 2018
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The Hunt for Red October as made by a Michael Bay wannabe who can’t even rise to the level of giving-a-propagandistic-crap. Absurd geopolitics and laugh-out-loud clichés abound; tension and excitement do not.

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movies by or about women opening US/Can from Wed Oct 17

Fri, Oct 19, 2018
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Elizabeth Chomko directs family drama What They Had; Marielle Heller directs literary-forging dramedy Can You Ever Forgive Me?; plus a whole bunch of documentaries directed by women…

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