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Donald Trump

Fahrenheit 11/9 documentary review: America is burning (LFF 2018)

Tue, Oct 23, 2018
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In his latest righteous broadside, Michael Moore takes on Donald Trump as but a symptom of the political rot in the United States. Upsetting, enraging, exhausting… which is just as it should be.

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Johnny English Strikes Again movie review: the spy who was a complete doofus

Thu, Oct 11, 2018
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Better than the unfunny first one, not as witty as the clever second one. But it has a bit of sly Brexit bite that is very welcome right now. Laugh until you cry!

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Jane Fonda in Five Acts documentary review: the political is her personal

Sun, Sep 23, 2018
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An extraordinarily intimate and perceptive new biography of the legendary actor and activist. Fonda reveals insecurities and anxieties that are achingly raw and very personal, but which many women will see themselves in.

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Mile 22 movie review: unfortunately no one can be told what any of it means

Thu, Sep 20, 2018
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Welcome to the first action movie of the Trump era, wherein civil liberties are a distant fantasy and “no man left behind” has been forgotten, yet this is all “a higher form of patriotism.”

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Queer Eye S1/S2 television review: self-care for the straight guy

Mon, Aug 27, 2018
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The nicest, kindest critique of toxic masculinity imaginable. The makeovers aren’t only about new clothes and a haircut: they’re about men waking up to a new sense of self, and a new participation in their own lives.

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Do You Trust This Computer? documentary review: artificial intelligence is already here

Fri, Aug 17, 2018
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This slick gloss on the state of AI is frustratingly scattershot and won’t surprise anyone who has been paying attention. But its warnings about how we’ve dealt with huge and rapid scientific leaps before are worthy ones.

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The First Purge movie review: a ‘Handmaid’s Tale’ for #BlackLivesMatter

Thu, Jul 05, 2018
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This shrewd sci-fi horror franchise is as sharp as ever as it reaches yet further down into the unpleasant flipside of the American myth. A rare prequel that doesn’t feel superfluous.

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Studio 54 documentary review: inside the velvet ropes

Wed, Jun 13, 2018
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A hugely entertaining exploration of the mythology of the legendary nightclub as something truly worth celebrating, and a towering Scorsese-esque drama of the men who invented it brought down by hubris.

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RBG documentary review: though she be but little she is fierce

Mon, Apr 30, 2018
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A marvelous, funny, deeply moving biography of Ruth Bader Ginsburg from her rise as a legal champion of women’s rights in the 1970s to her ascension as a Supreme Court justice and social-media hero “Notorious RBG.”

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movies by or about women opening UK/Ire from Thu Mar 01

Fri, Mar 02, 2018
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Documentaries by Andrea Luka Zimmerman and Jen Randall, a drama by Saila Kariat, and more.

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