Ramin Bahrani’s Riveting Doc Explores Guns and Greed
Home Movie Reviews ‘2nd Chance’ Review: Ramin Bahrani’s Riveting Doc Explores Guns, Greed, and Gimmicks There is no other documentary this year that shows a man shooting himself in the chest and then reveals the underpinnings of why with such…
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Tilda Swinton Takes a Haunting Look at the Past
The Eternal Daughter was originally published as part of our 2022 Toronto International Film Festival coverage. With her last two films, The Souvenir and its sequel The Souvenir: Part II, Joanna Hogg explored Julie (played by Honor Swinton Byrne), an…
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Almost Home | Film Threat
Director/co-writer Nils Keller and co-writer Max Richert’s sci-fi short film, Almost Home, asks an earnest and relevant question. Is life worth living, even at the high risk of death? Jakob (Jeremias Meyer) has been living for years on a spaceship with…
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Elvis Mitchell’s Doc Is An Imperative Guide Through ’70s Black Cinema [NYFF]
“Fuck you. I’m going to Paris,” the unflinching words spoken by screen legend Harry Belafonte, is just one of the many telling soundbites in Elvis Mitchell’s directorial debut “Is That Black Enough For You?!?” Mitchell, a film critic by trade,…
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An Effective Psychological Crime Thriller
The Stranger proves that Wright is a capable director and writer who can create a compelling piece of art that unsettles audiences. Joel Edgerton in The Stranger Netflix has yet another true crime narrative available on its platform, and once…
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A Heartbreaking True Story Told in a Stunning Drama Series
If you grew up in the Southern US in the 90s like I did, country music giants George Jones and Tammy Wynette were likely regulars on your car radio and your parents' CD player, and you could never get "Stand…
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Robert Downey Jr. Takes a Loving Look at His Offbeat Father
Everyone knows about Robert Downey Jr., the talented, stylish, Oscar-nominated actor whose winding career found its footing firmly in 2008 with the release of Iron Man. The success of that film would ultimately launch the Marvel Cinematic Universe that is—now…
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A Formulaic, But Inspiring Sports Doc
For a film that might initially come across as a glorified advertisement, with executive producers Dwayne Wade and LeBron James, in addition to the backing of NBA entertainment, Netflix’s “The Redeem Team” — about the 2008 U.S. Olympic Basketball Team…
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Downwind | Film Threat
The United States government is no stranger to committing atrocities. They left nearly four hundred African American males untreated with syphilis (when penicillin was available) over a span of forty years in the Tuskegee Syphilis Study. Then there were the…
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Lee Jung-jae Fights His Way Through Adequate Action Thriller
There are two competing components to Hunt, a South Korean espionage action thriller set in the 1980s directed by and starring Lee Jung-jae, in how it unravels. This refers not just to the story, which centers on opposing agents KCIA…
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M3GAN Review | Flickreel
Killer doll movies are a dime a dozen with most of them banking on the enduring success of Child’s Play. M3GAN might not be as revolutionary as its titular character, but it is among the most unique entries in this…
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Mike Flanagan’s Horror Coming-Of-Ager Anthology Gets Too Sentimental About The Nature Of Storytelling
Mike Flanagan is as sentimental about storytelling as he is about horror, for better and for worse. Sometimes that has led to a unique heartbeat in his work—the aching pain in his landmark Shirley Jackson adaptation “The Haunting of Hill…
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