Ambulance (Bay, 2022)
Ambulance is an amoral film about amoral people that made me angry. That doesn’t mean you won’t like it, and if you don’t it may be for very different reasons.… Continue reading "Ambulance (Bay, 2022)"
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The Yellow Wallpaper (Pontuti, 2020)
Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper” is so ubiquitous in the American classroom that it is a bit surprising that there is not yet a definitive film adaptation. Not that… Continue reading "The Yellow Wallpaper (Pontuti, 2020)"
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Belle Vie (Mizelle, 2022)
As anyone who reads this blog knows, I am a documentary fan. Two of my absolute favorites in the genre (Shut Up and Sing!; The Queen of Versailles) are ones… Continue reading "Belle Vie (Mizelle, 2022)"
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Zero Dark Thirty — 10 Years Later (Bigelow, 2012)
“Where do you want to go?” is the last line of Zero Dark Thirty. It is spoken by a pilot tasked with chartering Maya (Jessica Chastain) to the first destination… Continue reading "Zero Dark Thirty — 10 Years Later (Bigelow, 2012)"
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The Unmaking of a College (Goldstein, 2022)
I suspect that viewers will enjoy or esteem The Unmaking of a College to the extent their politics and ideology are compatible with those of the students who organized “the… Continue reading "The Unmaking of a College (Goldstein, 2022)"
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Air Doll (Koreeda, 2009)
I’ve been a Koreeda fan ever since I picked up a VHS tape of Maborosi (1995) from the sale bin of a video outlet. When I started attending the Toronto… Continue reading "Air Doll (Koreeda, 2009)"
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Reacher
I won’t speculate about how Amazon Studios’s Reacher will play for those unfamiliar with Lee Child’s books or fans of the Tom Cruise films based on the same character. I… Continue reading "Reacher"
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We Need to Talk About Cosby (Bell, 2022)
Can a film be simultaneously essential and disappointing? I ask because I feel like we do need to talk about Cosby — or at least I do. But while the… Continue reading "We Need to Talk About Cosby (Bell, 2022)"
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Road to Perth (Peter, 2021)
When I was in graduate school (yea, many years ago), I once earned an “A” on a paper from a respected mentor who was hardly a pushover. When I tried… Continue reading "Road to Perth (Peter, 2021)"
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The 355 (Kinberg, 2022)
The 355 is a new movie only in the sense that it has not been previously released in the United States and is not a remake. Beyond that, it is… Continue reading "The 355 (Kinberg, 2022)"