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Olympic Dreams movie review: coming in from the emotional cold

Thu, Feb 13, 2020
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Guerilla filmmaking is at its most charming in this melancholy romance set — and improvised and shot on the fly — in the 2018 Pyeongchang Olympic Village. Delightful and delicately observed.

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best and worst movies of 2003 (and good riddance to a lousy year)

Wed, Dec 31, 2003
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It hasn’t been a great year for film — I’m not the first critic you’ve heard say this. I had some very powerful and very entertaining experiences at the movies this year, but not as many as in other years, and few of those experiences coincided with the films that Hollywood wants us to think … more…

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