‘My Life as a Zucchini’ focuses on childhood trauma through a lens of hope
Very few children’s films are explicitly about the experience of being a child, nor are they often...
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Tag: 2016 film review
‘The Salesman’ is a challenging look at a strained relationship
Sometimes it can be difficult for foreign cinema to cross cultural boundaries, particularly when...
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‘Tanna’ is a gorgeously shot cultural artifact
Tanna is that rare film where the circumstances and conceit of its production are much more...
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‘I Am Not Your Negro’ is heartbreaking and earth-shattering
Driving home from the theater after I Am Not Your Negro, my partner and I mostly sat in silence. I...
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‘Toni Erdmann’ is a great movie buried under tedious length
I normally don’t like to harp on length when it comes to critiquing a film, mostly because it...
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‘Gold’ is a broken, intolerable garbage fire of a movie
Why does this movie exist? What is the point of Gold having ever been made? I would genuinely like...
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‘Paterson’ is Jim Jarmusch’s poetry in motion
Frequent readers of my reviews are likely aware of my fondness for the term “mood poem,” which for...
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‘The Founder’ mistakes being directionless for moral complexity
There is a very, very fine line between moral ambiguity and not being able to pick a perspective....
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’20th Century Women’ puts a mirror up to intergenerational divides
Call me a sentimental sucker, but I tend to feel a certain affinity for films that explore the...
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‘Live By Night’ crushes Ben Affleck under his own ego
When one person is simultaneously the star, screenwriter, director, and producer of a film, that...
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‘Silence’ is a bold passion project brought down by self-indulgence
Passion projects are almost always interesting, especially if they come from the mind of an...
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‘Sing’ is much better than it has any right to be
Sing has a premise that by no means should produce a good result: Take a bunch of cartoon animals,...
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