reviews

Shut Up & Sing (review)

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So yeah, *Shut Up & Sing* is massively depressing, and highlights some of the hypocrisies and idiocies of American public life, and points out how goddamn fucking ignorant some Americans are, and makes you want to just give up and move to Mars and start all over again with a new revolution.

Thin (review)

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I thought I had issues with food — I just like it too much. But to see the four women portrayed in Lauren Greenfield’s startling documentary Thin is to see people at war not only with food but with their own minds and bodies.

Harsh Times (review)

Before ‘Harsh Times’ I would have sworn that there was no role that could trip up Christian Bale…

Stranger Than Fiction (review)

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This ain’t no Charlie Kaufman head trip, one that leaves you dizzy in the brain and feeling like you’ve been to the Moon and back. This is much sweeter, much more soulful… much more *human.*

Flushed Away (review)

This melding of claymation and CGI is absolutely perfect, beautifully combining the wonderfully organic feel of Aardman’s hand-built sets and lovingly breathed-into-life clay figures with DreamWorks’ sleek computer cartoons.

Catch a Fire (review)

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It’s South Africa in 1980, and boy, does it burn to see this true tale of torture and oppression, of radicalization and rebellion from a regime so malevolent, even pathological, play like an object lesson for us today here in the United States.