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Tom Wilkinson

weekend watchlist: men who gaslight for fun and profit

Mon, Sep 19, 2022
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Plus an angry Jane Austen–esque romance, childhood witchcraft, and more. (First published August 19th, 2022, on Substack and Patreon.)

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Dead in a Week (Or Your Money Back) movie review: the dying isn’t easy (but the comedy is)

Thu, Nov 15, 2018
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This unexpectedly gentle black comedy about depression and suicide gets the tone just right, and could prompt as many empathetic conversations as it does compassionate laughs.

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The Titan movie review: bad science, worse science fiction

Wed, Apr 18, 2018
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The science is ludicrous, the story is almost entirely free of drama, and the finale descends into the hoariest, most ridiculous clichés of the genre. But the future smart-house porn is lovely.

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This Beautiful Fantastic movie review: this ordinary normal

Sun, Mar 11, 2018
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An ostensible fairy tale of the creative life in London that tries too hard to be eccentric, while also trying too hard to be grounded and realistic. This is one of those idiosyncrasies that you really can’t have both ways.

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Snowden green light

Snowden movie review: the system’s self-correction

Mon, Apr 03, 2017
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A gripping précis of what Edward Snowden learned at the CIA and NSA, why he went public, and why it matters. Entertaining yet also deeply unsettling.

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Denial movie review: a film for the resistance

Mon, Jan 30, 2017
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A terrific legal procedural about defending factual truth and smacking dishonest sowers of doubt. An essential film for our era of “alternative facts.”

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Little Boy movie review: faith-based bomb

Wed, Mar 09, 2016
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A shamefully miscalculated tale of whimsy and come-to-Jesus inspiration with a bizarrely inappropriate haze of Norman Rockwell-esque nostalgia.

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The Grand Budapest Hotel movie review: best exotic nonsense

Wed, Mar 11, 2015
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A grownup storybook of a movie spun out of candy-colored nonsense that challenges you to embrace its falseness and deny its romance.

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Unfinished Business movie review: business trip-up

Fri, Mar 06, 2015
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Apparently made by snickering 12-year-olds who like naked boobies and have heard rumors about the phenomenon known as “the business trip.”

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Belle movie review: untold stories

Fri, Jun 13, 2014
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Wonderful true story about a mixed-race woman raised in aristocratic late-18th-century England; like the best Jane Austen romance with a social conscience.

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