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Before the Flood documentary review: DiCaprio takes celebrity climate-change advocacy to a new level (LFF 2016)

Wed, Nov 02, 2016
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Leonardo DiCaprio’s abashed personal journey to learn about global warming, overcome his pessimism, and find hope that there’s still time to make a difference.

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Michael Moore in TrumpLand movie review: hope and humanity in a dark hour

Mon, Oct 31, 2016
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The filmmaker presents a standup-comedy case for Hillary Clinton for president, not as a fan of Clinton but as a patriot worried about the state of America.

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You’ve Been Trumped and You’ve Been Trumped, Too documentaries review: Donald Trump is no friend to “the little people”

Mon, Oct 31, 2016
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A British filmmaker documents the arrogance and disdain with which Donald Trump wields the power of his money… a warning for Americans come Election Day.

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Aquarius movie review: home is where the fight is

Fri, Oct 28, 2016
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A slow-burn battle between a woman and the developers trying to drive her from her home is a melancholy meditation on aging, memory, and family.

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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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Doctor Strange movie review: even Marvel is now tired of origin stories

Thu, Oct 27, 2016
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Busy with CGI to hide the emptiness where the emotional core should be. Even the mechanics of getting a man from mere mortal to demigod-in-a-cape are rote.

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Ordinary World (aka Geezer) movie review: from manchild to midlife crisis

Wed, Oct 26, 2016
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May be unique in the cinematic annals of manchildren in that its protagonist goes from overgrown adolescent to midlife crisis without any intervening adulthood.

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Autumn Lights movie review: women make men feel things

Wed, Oct 26, 2016
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Dead and absent women cause a man to have feels, but in an ethereal way, you know, with “artistic” female nudity and nonsensical pseudophilosophical dialogue.

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I, Daniel Blake movie review: this is our shame

Tue, Oct 25, 2016
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Lefty, loud, proud (and heartbreaking and infuriating with it). Rages against systems once meant to help people that have become machines intended to crush them.

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Keeping Up with the Joneses movie review: no, let them go

Mon, Oct 24, 2016
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Take True Lies and Mr. & Mrs. Smith. Remove wit, sexy charm, and satire on marriage. This is a recipe for a movie anyone wants to see?

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