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Dunkirk

Tenet movie review: I have no time for it

Fri, Feb 05, 2021
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Washington and Pattinson have palpable charisma, but this cold puzzle offers no incentive to solve it. Throw in damsel-in-distress crap, and both my geek sensibilities and my feminism are offended.

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my picks for tonight’s 90th Academy Awards (the Oscars for 2017’s films) (winners indicated)

Mon, Mar 05, 2018
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I correctly guessed 15 out of the 24 categories, which is one of my better showings ever, I think.

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BAFTA 2018 winners announced

Mon, Feb 19, 2018
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Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri wins big…

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Darkest Hour movie review: a surrender to open-and-shut history

Fri, Jan 12, 2018
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A feature-length Oscar clip, two hours of Gary Oldman stomping around in a Winston Churchill suit. There’s too little drama and too much inevitability in what amounts to a reanimated Madame Tussaud’s waxwork scene.

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AWFJ 2017 EDA Awards winners announced

Tue, Jan 09, 2018
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The Shape of Water wins Best Film, and Best Director goes to Guillermo del Toro. Agnes Varda is Defying Age and Ageism, and Hollywood’s sexual tormentors are inducted in the AWFJ Hall of Shame.

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OFCS 2017 awards winners announced

Thu, Dec 28, 2017
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Get Out wins Best Film and Best Original Screenplay. Call Me by Your Name, Dunkirk, and Three Billboards also take two awards each.

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curated: online critics pick ‘Get Out’ as best film of 2017 in HeyUGuys poll

Wed, Dec 20, 2017
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Get Out won over Dunkirk by a single vote.

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I’m on BBC World Service’s “The Arts Hour” on Sunday July 30th

Fri, Jul 28, 2017
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We’ll be talking about Dunkirk, The Beguiled, The Big Sick, and lots of other artsy stuff.

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curated: no, it’s not “ignorant” to ask where the women and the people of color are in ‘Dunkirk‘

Fri, Jul 21, 2017
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No, history is not lily white, or a total sausage party.

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Dunkirk movie review: the power of purpose

Wed, Jul 19, 2017
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Primal and exhilarating, full of dread and tension. Drops us right into the chaos of war to tell an intimate story about fear and intensity of purpose.

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