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Uncut Gems ★★★½
Ever since their 2010 feature debut Daddy Longlegs, Josh and Benny Safdie‘s work has centered around hustlers wallowing in theirContinue Reading
Jojo Rabbit ★★½
US publisher Abrams describes Christine Leunens novel Caging Skies as “darkly comic”, but the story is also a bleak one.Continue Reading
Richard Jewell ★★½
Clint Eastwood returns yet again this year with another film examining heroism. His 2010s output has largely been defined byContinue Reading
The Aeronauts ★★
Some movies just don’t seem to come out at the right time. The climate around a film never determines itsContinue Reading
Honey Boy ★★★
Shia LaBeouf‘s 2017 arrest for disorderly conduct, public drunkenness, and obstruction of justice was not his first brush with theContinue Reading
Waves ★★★
Waves marks a seemingly dramatic departure for Trey Edward Shults from his previous two features. Both Krisha and It ComesContinue Reading
The Films of Terrence Malick
With A Hidden Life being released in theaters, we look back this month at the films of Terrence Malick. One ofContinue Reading
Dark Waters ★★★½
Sickening. Nauseating. Horrifying. These are the words that come to mind while watching Todd Haynes‘ Dark Waters. Depicting the 20-yearContinue Reading
The Report ★★½
The Committee Study of the Central Intelligence Agency’s Detention and Interrogation Program was a government-funded investigation of over 6,700 pagesContinue Reading
Queen of Hearts ★★★
Often, female characters in film are not afforded much moral complexity. Even as modern cinema itself gets more progressive, womenContinue Reading
