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Paddy Considine

weekend watchlist: a couple of treasures for Pride Month

Mon, Jul 18, 2022
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Plus a lovable English crank and a put-upon Texan mom. (First published June 18th, 2022, on Substack and Patreon.)

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How to Build a Girl movie review: instruction manual not included

Wed, May 06, 2020
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The hypocrisy of the world’s expectations of girls gets a gently sardonic knock via an audaciously confident young woman battling to be herself. This is a lovely, goofy movie, easygoing and chaotic.

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Funny Cow movie review: standing up for herself

Thu, Apr 19, 2018
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This is scorched-earth cinema that challenges us to find moments of grace and triumph among misery, cruelty, and emotional frugality. Maxine Peake is absolutely incendiary.

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Journeyman movie review: men and all the feels

Wed, Mar 28, 2018
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Sensitive drama about traumatic brain injury, featuring an extraordinary performance by Paddy Considine and much brutal honesty about men’s inability to deal with their own emotions.

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The Death of Stalin movie review: the great dictator

Wed, Oct 25, 2017
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Audacious, outrageous, bleakly funny. Not since Charlie Chaplin sent up Hitler and invited us to laugh at terrible reality has there been a movie like this.

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The Girl with All the Gifts movie review: I believe the children are our future…

Mon, Sep 19, 2016
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Stakes out its own fresh place in an SF subgenre that is well played out, and rehumanizes it ways that are both extraordinarily moving and deeply unnerving.

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Miss You Already movie review: best friends forever, for real

Mon, Sep 28, 2015
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Authentically female in how it gets inside a lifelong friendship between two women, and as wisely funny as it is sharply poignant.

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Child 44 movie review: Stalin glance

Wed, Apr 22, 2015
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Overly complicated yet somehow anticlimactic, and constructed more with pat Hollywood pomp rather than the authentic grit it demands.

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Pride movie review: hanging together rather than hanging separately

Fri, Sep 12, 2014
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One of the rare movies that gets absolutely everything right, bursting with happy-tears emotion about solidarity, friendship, and smashing bigotry.

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Honour movie review: oh woman oh why

Sat, May 24, 2014
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A whole lotta violent bigoted men discussing women’s lives as if they merit any say in the matter.

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