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Push documentary review: why the rent is too damn high (and how to fix it)

Tue, Mar 03, 2020
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Badass UN Special Rapporteur Leilani Farha probes the global housing crisis and breaks down the complex cause into something readily comprehensible… then enraging. (But she has a solution, too.)

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Citizen K documentary review: behind the new Cold War

Thu, Feb 06, 2020
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Muckraking documentarian Alex Gibney on why Vladimir Putin is so dangerous, via the tale of a Russian oligarch of the post-Soviet era turned dissident. Vital context for the state of the world today.

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The Rhythm Section movie review: out of tune

Wed, Jan 29, 2020
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Poor Blake Lively does her de-glammed best in this poor Xerox of much better Turn The Urchin Into A Spy thrillers. But there isn’t a single human interaction in this hamfisted movie that rings true.

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The Gentlemen movie review: sufficiently advanced crime

Thu, Jan 16, 2020
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Guy Ritchie ups his game on his signature subgenre with a hilariously sublime crime comedy that acts as mirror on the legit world and oozes with crackling cynicism about culture and politics as well.

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movies by or about women opening US/Can Dec 20

Fri, Dec 20, 2019
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Francesca Hayward costars in Cats; more… [This post is for Patreon patrons only for the first month.]

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movies by or about women opening UK/Ire Dec 19–20

Fri, Dec 20, 2019
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Daisy Ridley costars in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker; more… [This post is for Patreon patrons only for the first month.]

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Last Christmas movie review: give it your heart, get your heart stomped

Sun, Nov 17, 2019
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Love and life are pain, the glitz and sparkle of Christmas are but a momentary reprieve from it, and everything is pretty much unrelentingly awful. But Emilia Clarke and Henry Golding are adorable!

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Chambers_ immersive dining experience — the review

Fri, Aug 30, 2019
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An interactive story-driven culinary adventure that’s like being dropped into a Doctor Who–esque spacetime unknown. Weird, wonderful, sometimes unnerving. An intriguingly odd sensory odyssey.

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Vita & Virginia movie review: the 1920s London literary scene, drained of all passion

Sun, Jul 07, 2019
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The legendary literary lesbian romance, starring the incendiary duo of Gemma Arterton and Elizabeth Debicki, is criminally blah, lacking all sexual and intellectual passion. How does this happen?

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In Fabric movie review: retail shock therapy

Wed, Jun 26, 2019
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A murderous dress and creepy shop clerks add up to nothing more than exhausting nonsense full of fetishizing of women and weirdness for weird’s sake alone. Consumerism is killing us, or something.

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