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Rise Again: Tulsa and the Red Summer and A Crime on the Bayou documentaries review: Black history matters

Fri, Jun 18, 2021
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Two new documentaries — one a shrewdly incisive work of journalism, the other a delicately elegant tale of injustice and friendship — tell all-but-forgotten histories of Black America. Of America.

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Synchronic movie review: Benson and Moorhead would have voted for Obama twice if they could have…

Fri, Apr 09, 2021
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Just because a tale is science fiction doesn’t mean that plausibility and cohesion are not required. Yet we can see the narrative strings pulling along the puppet-characters, and in an ugly direction.

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The Secret: Dare to Dream movie review: I’m positive this is awful

Tue, Aug 04, 2020
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Nice Guy garbage man Josh Lucas negs sad sack Katie Holmes. Based on the pernicious self-help philosophy that insists that everything wrong with your life is your fault. You know: feel-good romance!

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The Lovebirds movie review: breaking up on the run

Thu, May 28, 2020
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The hugely appealing Issa Rae and Kumail Nanjiani share terrific comic and romantic chemistry and work their everywoman and -man charm to the max. Go-to goofy escapism for, say, a pandemic lockdown.

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Out of Blue movie review: murder most muted

Fri, Mar 22, 2019
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A limp noodle of a cinematic noir that drains Patricia Clarkson of her usual eccentric charisma. And where it aims for intriguingly oblique pseudoscientific philosophizing, it ends up merely obtuse.

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movies by or about women opening UK/Ire from Wed Aug 22

Fri, Aug 24, 2018
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Susanna Fogel directs a comedy about a spy’s girlfriend; Renee Edwards directs a documentary about New Orleans musicians; more…

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The Intervention and There Is a New World Somewhere movies review: women on the verge

Thu, Aug 25, 2016
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Two movies about women at crossroads in their lives explore the sort of personal crisis — lost mojo! — typically reserved for men onscreen.

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Mississippi Grind movie review: a killer hand

Fri, Oct 23, 2015
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A compelling character study of two intriguingly flawed people, the sort of richly observed drama that has gotten all but pushed out of mainstream cinema.

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Focus movie review: con inartistry

Thu, Feb 26, 2015
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Unpleasant, humor free, and contrary to accepted codes of movie morality. And that’s before it shows its hand as a pile of implausible sentimental mush.

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Homefront review: ridiculous yet predictable yet kinda fun

Mon, Dec 02, 2013
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Jason Statham teams up with another badass little girl… which makes him almost warm and charming as he kicks the crap out of villains.

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