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Daily Archives: November 24, 2020
Movie Preview: Olivia Cooke, Jack O’Connell, memory loss and love — “Little Fish”
Chad Hartigan, who gave us the understated “Martin Bonner,” directed. This Feb. release from IFC also stars Soko.
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Movie Review: Seventeen year-old girls, strangers in a strange land — “Antarctica”
On a sliding “quirky tales about teenage girls” scale, “Antarctica” is a lot more “Ghost World” than “Booksmart.” Not that it’s in either of those films’ league. It’s another self-consciously odd, almost surreal “smirk” of a comedy about two misfits … Continue reading
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Netflixable? Holidays are for triggering — “Hillbilly Elegy”
We are all heroes of our own story. And if we’re white and Southern, some of us are happy to throw in a little Tennessee Williams-styled “martyr” to the tale. Netflix and Ron Howard serve up a lot of both … Continue reading
Movie Review: A Deadly, Panicked Police Shooting, the definition of “Blindfire”
“Blindfire” is the (fictional) account of a deadly police shooting that sets out to demonstrate such situations are “complicated.” But as it tells its story from the “troubled” cop’s point of view, the film’s problematic agenda clashes with its clumsy, … Continue reading
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