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She Dies Tomorrow movie review: when it feels like we all die tomorrow

Wed, Aug 19, 2020
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Filmmaker Amy Seimetz evokes a taut, cursed mundanity, an allegorical contemplation of culture at its most basic level: when it fails and everyone is hopeless. Accidentally hits our pandemic mood.

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Trial by Fire and My Days of Mercy movies review: two (rare) new dramas about the US death penalty

Thu, May 23, 2019
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Two very different films, replete with emotionally engaging performances, examine the impact of the American death penalty from the large-scale legal and political to that of intimate personal grief.

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movies by or about women opening UK/Ire May 17

Sat, May 18, 2019
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Tali Shalom-Ezer directs romantic drama My Days of Mercy, starring Ellen Page and Kate Mara; more… [This post is for Patreon patrons only for the first month.]

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Wild Nights with Emily movie review: the poetess with the mostest

Fri, Apr 12, 2019
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Like Drunk History but sober, a lively, arch, dryly comedic corrective to the traditional, heteronormative, patriarchal image of Emily Dickinson. Incredibly audacious and utterly delightful.

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Pet Sematary (2019) movie review: bad things happen when you leave the city

Wed, Apr 03, 2019
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A lazy adaptation of the Stephen King novel, manipulatively cheap when it isn’t provoking eye-rolls at its genre banalities. Why can’t someone find the right role for the charismatic Jason Clarke?

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Upstream Color review: higher dimensions of storytelling

Thu, Aug 29, 2013
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A confounding intellectual mystery, an enigmatic philosophical science fantasy that’s like a cinematic Moebius strip.

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