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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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Johnny English Strikes Again movie review: the spy who was a complete doofus

Thu, Oct 11, 2018
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Better than the unfunny first one, not as witty as the clever second one. But it has a bit of sly Brexit bite that is very welcome right now. Laugh until you cry!

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Matangi/Maya/M.I.A. documentary review: the multiple identities of a modern artist

Wed, Sep 26, 2018
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A tremendous backgrounder, intimate and personal, on the massively popular — and massively political — hip-hop artist. Here is the source of all her anger and passion, and here is why she needs to be heard.

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Jane Fonda in Five Acts documentary review: the political is her personal

Sun, Sep 23, 2018
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An extraordinarily intimate and perceptive new biography of the legendary actor and activist. Fonda reveals insecurities and anxieties that are achingly raw and very personal, but which many women will see themselves in.

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Mile 22 movie review: unfortunately no one can be told what any of it means

Thu, Sep 20, 2018
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Welcome to the first action movie of the Trump era, wherein civil liberties are a distant fantasy and “no man left behind” has been forgotten, yet this is all “a higher form of patriotism.”

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Mission: Impossible – Fallout movie review: here we go again

Tue, Jul 24, 2018
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Masterful. I had so much fun with this, often laughing out loud in relief when the tension of a breathless action scene finally broke. So why am I feeling a bit meh about it?

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The First Purge movie review: a ‘Handmaid’s Tale’ for #BlackLivesMatter

Thu, Jul 05, 2018
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This shrewd sci-fi horror franchise is as sharp as ever as it reaches yet further down into the unpleasant flipside of the American myth. A rare prequel that doesn’t feel superfluous.

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1945 movie review: a reckoning for the collaborators

Tue, May 22, 2018
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A quiet horror movie about grief and regret as spiritual possession, about rationalization and denial as immorality. We don’t tell ourselves stories that whisper, as this one does, The Nazis had help. We need to.

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New Town Utopia documentary review: the future that never was

Fri, May 04, 2018
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A lovely, melancholy documentary about the planned community of Basildon in England… but really about squandering of postwar optimism with the rise of neoliberalism.

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The Judge documentary review: social (and legal) justice warrior

Thu, May 03, 2018
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A portrait as delightful as its subject: Kholoud Al-Faqih, a pioneer of Islamic jurisprudence and as fiery as any Western feminist. Essential viewing for its smashing of stereotypes.

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