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The Invite doesn’t try to state anything profound; it just asks us to look at what’s there and what’s holding them back from being more. And it has such a devil of a time doing it.
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Writer/director John Patton Ford clearly wants How to Make a Killing live in ambiguity, and his ability to hold us in this uncomfortable space for the film’s running time is a singular, delicious feat.
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It’s a wholly depressing remembrance and forecast that Aster has of and for America in Eddington, full of exaggerations with no punchline.
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Here’s what you need to know about Death of a Unicorn: It’s a modern fairytale, replete with arch characterizations and storylines straight out of a Brothers Grimm collection. After suffering a grievous loss, our underdog heroes are forced into a situation by more moneyed and evil superiors that makes them consider their principles carefully. When […]
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There’s an unheralded classic horror movie somewhere in Talk to Me, although it doesn’t quite reach the heights it aspires to. It occasionally brushes against greatness through its performances and its nonstop dread, but it too often falls back on the “cursed object we shouldn’t play with” formula, complete with all the predictable pitfalls and […]
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What are movies at their very basic but images projected on a screen with accompanying sound? It’s just light reflected into our eyes. But it takes a gifted filmmaker to use every inch of that canvas and every decibel afforded to them, and to use it well. Ari Aster is one such filmmaker, whose stories, […]
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I didn’t know what to say about Lamb before I started writing this; I never watched the trailer below, so if you do, you’ll go in much more forewarned and forearmed. It’s not a film you enjoy so much as experience; you’re not watching this one for anything close to resembling “the usual.” Billed as a […]
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Grief and guilt over the passing of loved ones is a universal part of life, regardless of whether we loved someone as much as we could, or if we distanced ourselves from them. The could’ves, would’ves, and should’ves cruelly have their way with us for a while; soon, we find a way to deal with […]
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Granola and punk are the diametrically opposed cultural mores of 1979 Santa Barbara in Mike Mills’ darling flick “20th Century Women”, which has the paradoxical quality of feeling both haphazard and polished. More distinctly, and with little previous work by which to compare, writer/director Mills (“Beginners”) has whittled the multi-generational retro-drama into a concise and […]
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I really want to tell you how director Atom Egoyan’s “Remember” ends. I will refrain, of course. But if I could tell you, you would understand why I liked the movie so much. So I’ll just say that Christopher Plummer gives another riveting performance and get on with the synopsis. Zev Guttman (Plummer) is a […]
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