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Right Stuff

Top Gun: Maverick movie review: we’re well into the danger zone

Sat, May 28, 2022
22 comments

With its melancholy regret and bittersweet nostalgia, this is far superior to the 1986 blockbuster. But as the sun goes down on American imperialism here, the last-gasp celebration of it unsettles.

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First Man movie review: over the moon

Tue, Oct 09, 2018
7 comments

Damian Chazelle finds a dreamlike reverie amidst rocket-powered mechanical brawn. As wonderfully, nerve-wrackingly exhausting as it is movingly intimate.

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Mercury 13 documentary review: the even righter stuff

Mon, Apr 23, 2018
86 comments

An essential documentary look at yet another example of historical feminism that should never have been forgotten: the first American in space might have and probably should have been a woman.

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Hidden Figures movie review: triumph of the black girl geeks

Thu, Dec 22, 2016
25 comments

The it’s-about-damn-time true story that puts paid to the notion that only white men had the Right Stuff. Often funny, ultimately feel-good, hugely exhilarating.

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November 20: DVD alternatives to this weekend’s multiplex offerings

Fri, Nov 20, 2009
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We know how it is: You’d like to go to the movies this weekend, but there’s all that sighing and sulking and brooding over your immortal undead lover to do, and that’s just exhausting. But you can have a multiplex-like experience at home with a collection of the right DVDs. And when someone asks you … more…

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