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Flee documentary review: home is when you don’t have to run away

Fri, Jan 28, 2022
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Impossibly, heartbreakingly poignant, rooted in tough emotion and hard realities. A deeply humane movie that makes an unspoken, effortless plea for compassion for refugees’ distress and desperation.

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A Taste of Hunger movie review: salt fat acid heat

Fri, Jan 28, 2022
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Contemplative and tenderly observed, a slow-burn romantic and family drama about two complicated, difficult people and what they’re willing to risk to achieve their dream. Plus: Scandi food porn!

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The Exception (Undtagelsen) movie review: and you thought your coworkers were horrible…

Fri, Jan 22, 2021
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Nonsensical Danish thriller concocts absurd connections between the nature of evil and *checks notes* office politics among shallow clichés of women. Preposterously, this is not meant to be satire.

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Oscar Nominated Live Action Shorts (89th Academy Awards) review

Thu, Feb 23, 2017
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My favorite of the nominees is “Sing,” a movie for right-now with its pushback against a bullying authority figure and its gently effective defiance.

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A Conspiracy of Faith (Flaskepost fra P) movie review: is God dead? or is he the killer?

Wed, Jun 15, 2016
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Denmark’s smash-hit Nordic noir series Department Q arrives in the US… and this third chapter is menacing, creepy, and morbidly engaging.

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The Keeper of Lost Causes (Kvinden i buret) and The Absent One (Fasandraeberne) movies review: good clean nasty Nordic noir

Fri, Apr 15, 2016
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Grim treats, mining suspense and urgency from intensely plotted dual timelines of brutal criminality. A must for fans of rumpled, cynical, bitter detectives.

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The Danish Girl movie review: sometimes it’s hard to be a woman

Wed, Jan 13, 2016
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Safe, conventional, and not particularly sympathetic to women, cis or trans. Mistakes the external signifiers of femininity with actually being a woman.

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A Perfect Plan movie review: dumb and dumber

Fri, Jun 13, 2014
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With rom-coms like this, who needs warcrimes? This is the most cruel, most contrived romantic comedy I have ever had the displeasure to endure.

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