Is Genesis History? (Purifoy, 2017)
Spoiler Alert: The answer is "yes."
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3 Screenshots: A Monster Calls
A Monster Calls was my favorite film of 2016, but if failed to earn an Academy Award nomination for Best Picture.
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CNN’s Finding Jesus Returns for Second Season
The subtitle of CNN's Finding Jesus is Faith, Fact, Forgery.
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Jonathan: LGBTQ Film or Simply a Film about Family? (with director interview)
"The only way they have is to pretend to be someone else, and this is such a tragedy"
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Akron (King & O’Donnell, 2015)
Benny (Matthew Frias), is a college student living the kind of charmed, fairy-tale existence that one imagines only places like Akron, Ohio afford to Hispanic gay kids.
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Captain Fantastic — A Homeschooler’s Perspective
As someone who grew up homeschooled, I have become accustomed to negative portrayals of homeschooling throughout media. Homeschoolers are awkward, they don’t know how to socialize, or as one comedian put it, “They’re like if an alien took over a regular kid’s body.”
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20th Century Women (Mills, 2016)
Mills loves the small moments of life too much to let them add up to any grand narrative. He would rather just watch the memories float by, like a slideshow at a birthday party or graduation.
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3 Screenshots: La La Land
Much has been inked so far about the film's charm and its "follow your dreams" theme. I can agree with that assessment, but I think La La Land is a more sober, ambiguous film (even before the end) than everyone is giving it credit for.
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2016 Top 10
My favorite films of 2016 depicted a lot of suffering. The characters in them faced that suffering with courage, determination, compassion, and introspection.
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Lion (Davis, 2016)
Lion is a movie that grapples with physical geography but not human geography. We get no real sense of what being Indian might mean to Saroo or whether his home has any pull independent of his childhood memories.