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Tesla movie review: less than electrifying

Fri, Aug 21, 2020
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Hawke is warm and empathetic, but the film’s artificiality is at odds with a celebration of the visionary’s life and work, and finally offputting. I wish this were either more earnest or more bonkers.

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Radioactive movie review: science, bitch

Sat, Aug 01, 2020
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Rosamund Pike is perfection in this intellectual romance, an unsentimental portrait of a woman striving to be appreciated for her mind at a time even more anti-woman than today. Feminist and flinty.

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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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Bad Education movie review: school for scandal

Wed, Apr 29, 2020
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A laugh-until-you-cry dramedy burlesque, brilliantly structured and horrifically compelling, about the endless grift that passes for an economy in America. Hugh Jackman is at the peak of his powers.

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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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Tape movie review: her too

Wed, Apr 01, 2020
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Messy, furious, sometimes at odds with itself, this tale of documenting a powerful man’s sexual intimidation of a vulnerable woman is absolutely necessary, full of a rage that is absolutely vital.

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Corpus Christi (Boze Cialo) movie review: the accidental priest

Fri, Mar 20, 2020
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This profoundly empathetic tale of an unlikely spiritual leader is a condemnation of the dogmatism and narrowmindedness of the Catholic Church and a provocative exploration of guilt and redemption.

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Lost Girls movie review: and still unfound

Mon, Mar 16, 2020
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Based-on-fact drama puts the focus where it rarely is onscreen: on women who are victims of male violence. Yet a terrific central performance and an abundance of empathy cannot overcome its clichés.

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Military Wives movie review: tired choir dramedy needs to change the tune

Sat, Mar 07, 2020
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So aggressively precisely what you think it is that there’s almost no point in seeing it. Flattens a true story into generic pap that isn’t even that successfully, authentically feel-good, either.

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Dark Waters movie review: capitalism will kill ya

Thu, Feb 20, 2020
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If you like these sorts of movies, you’ll like this one, a solid SJW drama out to condemn, with plenty of evidence, profit-above-all capitalism that embraces willful negligence and corruption.

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