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2019 theatrical releases

Mouthpiece movie review: women, arguing with ourselves

Fri, Mar 12, 2021
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The internal monologue that modern women have with ourselves gets externalized in this audacious and absolutely brilliant dramedy. Poignant, vulnerable, and almost shocking, in the best possible way.

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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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To Kid or Not to Kid and Seahorse: The Dad Who Gave Birth documentaries review: childfree or child-bound?

Wed, Jul 01, 2020
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Two intimate documentaries about atypical paths to parenthood — or not — invite us to re-evaluate our assumptions, expand our thinking, and be more accommodating of the full spectrum of humanity.

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The Last Tree movie review: boy interrupted

Wed, Jun 24, 2020
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An astonishingly beautiful coming-of-age story of startling specificity and intense intimacy, yet universal in its compassionate depiction of a child’s perspective dawning on mature self-awareness.

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Sometimes Always Never movie review: only very intermittently

Fri, Jun 12, 2020
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Gentle kook and visual frolicking bury emotion in this tale of a man mired in grief. Little of its head-scratching whimsy makes a melancholy landing; most just floats away on wisps of insignificance.

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2040 documentary review: can we remake the world in 20 years? (spoiler: yes)

Mon, Jun 08, 2020
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A dash of eco-optimism to counter global-warming doom and gloom. Gameau is an enormously engaging fact-based dreamer offering a much-needed mindset refresh and proactive actions we can engage in now.

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Dark Waters movie review: capitalism will kill ya

Thu, Feb 20, 2020
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If you like these sorts of movies, you’ll like this one, a solid SJW drama out to condemn, with plenty of evidence, profit-above-all capitalism that embraces willful negligence and corruption.

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Seberg movie review: inept tribute to a troubled movie star

Wed, Feb 19, 2020
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French New Wave icon Jean Seberg plays an unwitting game of cat-and-mouse with the FBI in a strangled blend of biopic and paranoid thriller. Not even always fascinating Kristen Stewart can save this.

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Daniel Isn’t Real movie review: or is he?

Fri, Feb 07, 2020
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Stylistically sophisticated and psychologically insightful, this is an exquisitely ambiguous and inventively disturbing mashup of body horror, demonic possession, and Lovecraftian science fiction.

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Citizen K documentary review: behind the new Cold War

Thu, Feb 06, 2020
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Muckraking documentarian Alex Gibney on why Vladimir Putin is so dangerous, via the tale of a Russian oligarch of the post-Soviet era turned dissident. Vital context for the state of the world today.

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