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my ranking of 2023’s movies has begun!

Sun, Jan 29, 2023
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There are only a few films on it so far, but the year is young…

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AWFJ 2022 EDA Awards winners announced

Tue, Jan 17, 2023
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The Banshees of Inisherin, Everything Everywhere All at Once, and Women Talking tie for the most awards, at four apiece.

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AWFJ 2021 EDA Awards winners announced

Tue, Jan 25, 2022
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One Night in Miami… movie review: the past, still prologue

Mon, Apr 19, 2021
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An electrifying philosophical fantasia that imagines four towering figures of 1960s America arguing over how to navigate racism as Black men. Enraging, but also thrilling, bursting with cinematic joy.

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Cowboys movie review: a new kind of father-and-son tale

Wed, Feb 17, 2021
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A complete upending of the western, about not wide open spaces but close-in intimacy, with an unusual female gaze and a hugely provocative dare to gender expectations. Both ironic and transformative.

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AWFJ 2020 EDA Awards winners announced

Tue, Jan 05, 2021
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Farewell Amor movie review: family ties undone, and forged again (LFF 2020)

Fri, Dec 11, 2020
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Achieves that rare cinematic feat of being specific and universal at the same time. A lovely film, plaintive and poignant, with exquisite performances from a beguiling cast, and ultimately hopeful.

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Proxima movie review: the work of the world

Fri, Nov 20, 2020
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Brings a fundamental new humanity to the story of those who court great danger in order to advance human knowledge. Eva Green is immense. Writer-director Alice Winocour’s compassion is achingly acute.

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Blackbird movie review: the bell tolls, ever so tastefully

Mon, Sep 21, 2020
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The to-die-for cast can’t quite save this melodrama from its trite obviousness, in which rage and grief are matters of tasteful, upscale lifestyle. But they at least make it passingly watchable.

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Mulan (2020) movie review: girl (and film) at war with the world

Fri, Sep 11, 2020
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Acceptably inoffensive, if less than wholly engaging. At least Liu’s strong, stately Mulan is a wonderful role model for girls who aren’t much interested in conformity and adhering to expectations.

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