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First Cow movie review: new world, same as the old world

Thu, Jul 23, 2020
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A simple story about friendship. A revisionist Western reworking fables of masculinity and frontiers. A softly savage deconstruction of the American dream, of capitalism itself. An astonishing movie.

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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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John Lewis: Good Trouble documentary review: how to bend the arc of history

Mon, Jul 20, 2020
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Essential portrait of the US Congressman and civil-rights activist, for its lessons in the power of passive resistance to injustice, and its underscoring of how America has regressed in recent years.

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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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The Old Guard movie review: saving the world, one century at a time

Thu, Jul 09, 2020
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There’s plenty of bruising action, but this fantastic slice of comic-book pulp emphasizes the humanity of its immortal heroes. Gina Prince-Bythewood elevates the familiar with emotional authenticity.

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Little Girl (Petite Fille) documentary review: what little girls are made of (EIFF 2020)

Thu, Jul 09, 2020
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Lovely verité documentary about eight-year-old Sasha, who was born into a boy’s body but is definitely a girl. An inspiring portrait of someone asking for so little: to be accepted for who she is.

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Anthropocene: The Human Epoch documentary review: the destruction of our planet, in pictures (EIFF 2020)

Mon, Jul 06, 2020
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Astonishing: sometimes oddly beautiful but mostly like sci-fi horror. An anti-meditation nightmare, a call to arms if only we were ready to finally address our thoughtless impact on planet Earth.

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Disclosure documentary review: what the sorry state of trans representation onscreen means for everyone

Sat, Jul 04, 2020
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Terrific doc unpacks trans representation in Hollywood, unspoken attitudes about gender, sexuality, and race that most people, trans and cis, may never have clocked before… ideas that affect us all.

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Family Romance, LLC. movie review: coming to your emotional rescue

Fri, Jul 03, 2020
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A marvelously strange and perplexing meta meditation on human connection and ritual, on fact and fiction, on emotional truth. An existential cinematic rabbit hole as only Werner Herzog can deliver.

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