The Fabelmans (Spielberg, 2022)
This Thanksgiving weekend is going to start one of the best holiday movie seasons I can remember in a long time. Devotion, Glass Onion: A Knives Out Movie, and All… Continue reading "The Fabelmans (Spielberg, 2022)"
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Strange World (Nguyen, 2022)
In 1989, when I saw The Little Mermaid as a freshman in college, I did not know that I was watching the beginning of the Disney “renaissance.” I just knew… Continue reading "Strange World (Nguyen, 2022)"
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Paris Police 1900, S1: E6
The first act of Episode 106 of Paris Police 1900 is dark. Like really dark, both figurately and literally. Dark like the producers spent their entire lighting budget on the… Continue reading "Paris Police 1900, S1: E6"
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The Sound of Violet (Wolf, 2022)
I once wrote an essay (since turned into a chapter in Inconspicuously Christian Film Criticism) asking whether Christian films were judged by a double standard.. I thought about that essay… Continue reading "The Sound of Violet (Wolf, 2022)"
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Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (Coogler, 2022)
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever is a valiant addition to the Black Panther legacy and the Marvel Universe. It brings back many of the things that audiences loved about Black Panther… Continue reading "Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (Coogler, 2022)"
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A Star without a Star: The Untold Juanita Moore Story (Kelleykahn, 2022)
The documentary, the directorial debut of Kirk E. Kelleykahn, might sound from the title as though it is exclusively focused on a crusade to get Juanita Moore a star on… Continue reading "A Star without a Star: The Untold Juanita Moore Story (Kelleykahn, 2022)"
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Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (Johnson, 2022)
Rian Johnson, the film’s writer and director, has been steadily proving himself to be one of the best filmmakers in Hollywood. His first offering, Brick (2005) was an overwhelming financial… Continue reading "Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (Johnson, 2022)"
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Stay the Night (Jeyapalan, 2022)
The press material for Stay the Night made it sound to me like a wacky secular version of Matthew Wilson’s The Virgins. Turns out it is more akin to a… Continue reading "Stay the Night (Jeyapalan, 2022)"
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Paris Police 1900 (Season 1, Episode 5)
One topic of our ongoing episode guides for Paris Police 1900 has been aesthetic and stylistic differences between European (in this case, French) television and American network television. I’ve said… Continue reading "Paris Police 1900 (Season 1, Episode 5)"
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All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (Poitras, 2022)
All The Beauty and the Bloodshed is a powerful documentary about marginalized people and the harm that social marginalization causes. I have fought in and survived two wars, and I… Continue reading "All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (Poitras, 2022)"