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Last and First Men movie review: a sobering message from the future (EIFF 2020)

Thu, Jul 23, 2020
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A mesmerizing, haunting contemplation of the headiest issues we ever confront: evolution and extinction, the depths of time, the meaning of life. Screams with ominous alarm for the human future.

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Greyhound movie review: Tom Hanks goes a-LARPing

Fri, Jul 17, 2020
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How very kind of Tom Hanks to lend his gravitas and inescapable likability to a bunch of WWII naval reenactors on their weekend-getaway “crossing the north Atlantic in 1942 dodging U-boats” campaign.

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The Sunlit Night movie review: room to breathe and think in wide-open spaces

Wed, Jul 15, 2020
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A ramble with appealingly messy people rethinking their priorities that is perhaps more charming and touching than it might have been if this pandemic summer didn’t have so many of us doing the same.

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Artemis Fowl movie review: falls foul of itself

Sun, Jun 14, 2020
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A disaster of a kids’ fantasy caper; feels like it’s making up the plot as it goes. A mishmash of manufactured wonder: characters barely sketched, action seemingly setting up future DisneyWorld rides.

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Shirley movie review: lost girls gone mad

Wed, Jun 10, 2020
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A beautiful-ugly film, a work of domestic gothic grotesquerie, of women’s suffocation and sacrifice, pain and isolation. Elisabeth Moss’s performance is next-level glorious in its wackadoo intensity.

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Becoming documentary review: hope floats

Tue, May 12, 2020
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Verges on an ad for Michelle Obama’s memoir, but a sincerely warm one. We glimpse a woman authentically funny, self-aware, down-to-earth. Like spending time with a friend you didn’t realize you had.

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How to Build a Girl movie review: instruction manual not included

Wed, May 06, 2020
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The hypocrisy of the world’s expectations of girls gets a gently sardonic knock via an audaciously confident young woman battling to be herself. This is a lovely, goofy movie, easygoing and chaotic.

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Capital in the Twenty-First Century documentary review: eat the rich (cuz they’re eating us)

Mon, May 04, 2020
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Attention, social justice warriors. French economist Thomas Piketty’s howl-of-rage academic treatise is now a hugely engaging documentary, eye-opening and brutally entertaining. Man the barricades!

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True History of the Kelly Gang movie review: toxic came the masculinity

Tue, Apr 21, 2020
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Revisionist tale of the Australian folk hero rages against the dark forces that shaped him: emotional and economic neglect and abuse forged in patriarchy and colonialism. Electrifyingly punk and vulgar.

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Who You Think I Am movie review: on the Internet, no one knows you’re a sexy French lady

Fri, Apr 10, 2020
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Not even the treasure that is Juliette Binoche can make this cynical romantic thriller palatable. Does not say the things about social media and the lives of older women that it thinks it does.

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