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Humans are quick. Impulsive. Natural-born runners because of our ability to sweat and dig our feet in at the same time. We’re quick to run to love, away from it, to spur it on, or move on from it. In no other film is this more clear than Michel Gondry’s Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind.
Read MoreThere is a resonating message in Sciamma’s stunning movie. Girlhood is not easy, not for any girl. It’s even less easy for Marieme, who lives on the periphery, where neither film nor public policy cares to reach. But even there, she succeeds in doing what she wants to do.
Read MoreWhat I realized within the first fifteen minutes of The Witch, though, was that it’s no period piece with zero frights, but rather a relatively traditional and refreshing horror movie.
Read MoreA look at three great indies: Beach Pillows, Anomaly, and The Happy Poet.
Read MoreI readily confess that this film has often moved me to tears, though so unpredictably that I find it impossible to pin down what specifically is at work. My sense is that it isn’t any one thing, so much as it is multiple artistic threads intricately braided together. Hertzfeldt gives us a world that looks nothing like ours, yet is entirely ours...
Read MoreWhen we watch a film like this, we struggle at first. Even if we’re aware of Malick’s stylistic preferences, we fight the film in the early going, because we are still tied to the traditional narrative framing and reference points of the films we’ve seen before, and we can’t figure out how they apply here.
Read MoreCoogler’s film—which tells the real-life story of Oscar Grant III, a twenty-two-year-old father shot and murdered early on New Year’s Day in 2009—highlights that the guise we blindly maintain is detrimental to us all, especially for those already marginalized.
Read MoreMemory and shared experience connect a patchwork of women leading different lives with different goals.... It illustrates women as Hollywood rarely does: unique in purpose, personality, and even appearance. But it also prompts a difficult question: How can such a wide array of people, some of whom seem at odds with each other, unite under one movement?
Read MoreThe men of Sicario have long acquiesced to these low moral standards, yet the most significant understanding of the film is not how these corrupt men operate, but rather how agent Kate Mercer navigates their world as a woman.
Read MoreLars von Trier is many things; subtle is not one of them. It would take too long to list all of the Danish auteur’s moments of notoriety, but we’d do well to remember that behind all of the moments of public nonsense, there lies a very talented, very interesting filmmaker.
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