Review: Star Wars: The Last Jedi
I really thought I had gotten some Star Wars fatigue. In the build up to the release of Star Wars: The Last Jedi I just wasn’t feeling ...
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NYFF Review: Thelma
Each critic has their own process. Some take notes while watching a film and others will rush home to type up their thoughts ...
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Review: The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)
All happy families are the same; each unhappy family is only sort of the same, and will eventually wind up in their own ...
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Review: Lady Bird
Greta Gerwig’s Lady Bird reminded me of my own experiences growing up. When a coming-of-age movie works, I’m bound to say that, and ...
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NYFF Review: Zama
Zama is a novelistic film, but not because it’s an adaptation of a 1956 Argentinian novel by Antonio di Benedetto. Watching Zama creates a ...
Review: Detroit
In the opening scene of Detroit, a large group of African Americans are rounded up and arrested en masse for having an indoor party; their ...
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Review: Okja
Bong Joon-Ho’s Okja is a chimera of genre and tone. It’s a lovable mutant like its titular super pig–the best super pig, we’re ...
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Review: Wonder Woman
DC Comics and Warner Bros have been, well, let’s say misguided in their attempts at launching a series of films comparable to Marvel’s ...
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Review: LA 92
It’s been 25 years since the LA riots, and there are a number of films coming out that revisit this harrowing moment in ...
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Review: My Life as a Zucchini
There’s this pervasive idea that children are resilient, that they’re able to cope well even in dire circumstances. In stories about forlorn kids, ...
Review: Before I Fall
If you read my Top 15 Movies of 2016 list, then you’ll know that at the very top (number 0) was The Edge ...
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Review: Kong: Skull Island
The monster movie is making a comeback. No, not the still-odd-to-me Universal Monster Cinematic Universe. I’m talking giant, city-destroying monsters. And yes, they’re ...