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Cat Person movie review: her too

Sun, Oct 15, 2023

The cringe of modern relationships stinks up this antiromance. Its bald truths, all but ignored in pop culture, about how women navigate romantic and sexual relationships with men, demand to be heard.

Trial by Fire and My Days of Mercy movies review: two (rare) new dramas about the US death penalty

Thu, May 23, 2019

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Two very different films, replete with emotionally engaging performances, examine the impact of the American death penalty from the large-scale legal and political to that of intimate personal grief.

Oscar Nominated Documentary Shorts 2019 (91st Academy Awards) review

Tue, Feb 19, 2019

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My pick: Marshall Curry’s “A Night at the Garden,” presenting footage from a 1939 “pro-America” rally in New York City, a chilling reminder of the unpleasant cycles of American history.

Wakefield movie review: man of the house (emeritus)

Fri, May 26, 2017

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An appalling elevation of toxic masculinity to something poignant, radical, and heroic. As unpleasant and as passive-aggressive as its horrid protagonist.