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Kangaroo: A Love-Hate Story documentary review: of human cruelty

Fri, Jan 19, 2018
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A heartbreaking, deeply upsetting exposé of “the largest wildlife slaughter anywhere in the world,” one that has much to say about us humans and our relationship with the natural world.

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Marie Curie: The Courage of Knowledge movie review: so hot she’s radioactive

Thu, Nov 23, 2017
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With more sexy baths than any movie about a male scientist has ever seen, this biopic undermines the battle Curie fought to be taken seriously that is depicted here.

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Lady Bird movie review: flights of adolescent angsty (LFF 2017)

Thu, Nov 09, 2017
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An emotional feast full of humor and pathos about the audacity, the wonder, the horror that is female adolescence. Beautiful, bittersweet, and very generous.

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The Light of the Moon movie review: “victim” is not a dirty word

Fri, Nov 03, 2017
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A tough, uncompromising depiction of a rape and its aftermath that serves as a formidable corrective for how this subject is typically seen onscreen.

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Faces Places (Visages, Villages) documentary review: art to the people

Mon, Oct 30, 2017
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Film legend Agnès Varda and photomuralist JR take us on a road-trip art project that is joyful, funny, and invites us to see the world through truly open eyes.

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Raw movie review: girly gory allegory

Wed, Apr 19, 2017
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Cinema as a punch in the gut and not for the squeamish, casting female desire as ravenously predatory in a way that few films have ever had the audacity to do.

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Their Finest movie review: keeping calm and carrying on making movies

Wed, Apr 05, 2017
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Delightful dry and snarky satire on wartime propaganda, sharp feminist commentary, and a brilliant cast make this snappy historical dramedy a real corker.

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Trolls movie review: you can’t stop the cute

Fri, Oct 28, 2016
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Cute and sweet and will put you to sleep, like a diabetic coma, and then it will smack you awake with its relentlessly cheery vivid-pastel optimism.

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Into the Forest movie review: end of the world, not as we’ve known it

Fri, Jul 29, 2016
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An atypical disaster movie, less about the failure of technology than the failure — and perhaps the resurgence — of the human spirit in the face of that.

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My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2 movie review: prearranged marriage

Tue, Mar 22, 2016
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There is genuine if exasperated warmth here, but it is far less satisfyingly bound up into a cohesive story in this halfhearted retread of the original film.

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