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drama
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May 26, 2021
AT CLOSE RANGE (1986)
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The breakdown of the family unit is one of the more disturbing themes at play in cinema, only because it's inherent in us to desire a cl...
May 24, 2021
12 STRONG (2018)
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I don’t want to sound insensitive or dismissive, but can we please have a moratorium on 9/11? Can we all just agree that it happened, it ...
Apr 28, 2021
THE RETRIEVAL (2013)
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It's 1864, and a young boy named Will (Ashton Sanders) works with his uncle, Marcus (Keston John), on behalf of a group of bounty hunter...
Mar 24, 2021
PILGRIMAGE (2017)
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Your really clever movie fan will look at the synopsis for Pilgrimage and think, “Spider-Man and the Punisher in the same movie!” and a...
Mar 8, 2021
AFTERMATH (2017)
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A long time ago, Arnold Schwarzenegger set out on a task to accomplish three very specific edicts: to win the title of Mr. Olympia and obta...
Mar 3, 2021
ARRIVAL (2016)
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At times it feels like the theater has gotten so used to sci-fi films where laser guns are zapped and mutant alien races wage war on Planet ...
Mar 1, 2021
Z FOR ZACHARIAH (2015)
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We should all be so lucky, in the face of nuclear fallout, to stumble upon at least one person as beautiful as any of Z for Zachariah 's...
Feb 15, 2021
CREED II (2018)
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2015’s Creed was a risky move, especially after Rocky creator and caretaker Sylvester Stallone had successfully resurrected his character ...
Feb 12, 2021
CREED (2015)
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Early reaction to the announcement of Creed , described more as a spin-off than a sequel to the long-running Rocky franchise, was understan...
Jan 23, 2021
RICHARD III (1995)
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Long considered to be the most unconventional adaptation of a Shakespeare play, Richard III would take the same approach as Julie Taymor...
Sep 2, 2020
ANOMALISA (2015)
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Every single film so far in writer/director Charlie Kaufman's oeuvre has been about the longing between human beings, and the inevit...
Aug 17, 2020
A GHOST STORY (2016)
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David Lowery is a filmmaker I love. He first burst onto the scene a few years ago with a low-key and quietly beautiful film called Ain...
Jul 12, 2020
MAGGIE (2016)
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Maggie is a remarkable film in many respects, the most remarkable being that it was, for a long time, the little movie that could, and n...
Jun 30, 2020
THE PANIC IN NEEDLE PARK (1971)
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The drug film is a hard film to watch--at least if it's done the right way. For modern audiences, the most gut-wrenching experience ...
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