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Review of Aniara (2019)

By Brent_Marchant (762) on 20 Jul 2020

This ambitious existential sci-fi offering, based on a Swedish poem of the same name, makes a valiant attempt at transcending the content,…

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Review of Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019)

By Brent_Marchant (762) on 11 Jul 2020

While terms like masterpiece have been freely bandied about concerning this French period piece drama about forbidden romance, this beautifully…

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Review of The 11th Green (2020)

By Brent_Marchant (762) on 30 Jun 2020

This enigmatic sci-fi tale, which fuses elements of The X-Files and the original version of The Day the Earth Stood Still, is a genuine cinematic…

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Review of The Last Tree (2020)

By Brent_Marchant (762) on 29 Jun 2020

While this coming of age tale tries valiantly to make a meaningful statement, its underdeveloped narrative and unresolved story threads keep…

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Review of Secret Life of a Celebrity Surrogate (2020)

By Brent_Marchant (762) on 26 Jun 2020

A thorough (some might say exhaustive or even exhausting) look at surrogacy and what can happen when something goes wrong…

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Review of Cold Case Hammarskjöld (2019)

By Brent_Marchant (762) on 26 Jun 2020

This documentary investigating the death (i.e., likely assassination) of former UN Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold in a mysterious 1961…

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Review of The Surrogate (2020)

By Brent_Marchant (762) on 26 Jun 2020

A thorough (some might say exhaustive or even exhausting) look at surrogacy and what can happen when something goes wrong…

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Review of The Surrogate (2020)

By Brent_Marchant (762) on 26 Jun 2020

A thorough (some might say exhaustive or even exhausting) look at surrogacy and what can happen when something goes wrong…

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Review of A Sinner in Mecca (2015)

By Brent_Marchant (762) on 23 Jun 2020

Back in time for Pride month via online streaming, this highly personal 2015 documentary about a gay Muslim man who makes his required Hajj…

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Review of Miss Juneteenth (2020)

By Brent_Marchant (762) on 23 Jun 2020

A bittersweet tale about expectations that don't pan out as hoped for but that can still work out in the end, provided we don't become locked…

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Review of Shirley (2020)

By Brent_Marchant (762) on 13 Jun 2020

An ambitious but ultimately unsuccessful attempt to do something different with the biopic genre as told through an episode in the life of…

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Review of Tommaso (2020)

By Brent_Marchant (762) on 12 Jun 2020

This overlong, meandering character study about an aging American actor/filmmaker living in Rome with his young wife and daughter as he attempts…

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Review of Booksmart (2019)

By Brent_Marchant (762) on 30 May 2020

It took me a while to get around to watching this smartly written take-off on cheesy high school comedies (mainly because of a trailer that…

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Review of The Painter and the Thief (2020)

By Brent_Marchant (762) on 29 May 2020

An intriguing story -- or, rather, an intriguing collection of stories -- that are all linked to one another but don't gel in a fully cohesive…

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Review of Lucky Grandma (2020)

By Brent_Marchant (762) on 27 May 2020

Despite a slight tendency to meander late in the second half, this smartly written, consistently hilarious comedy about a surly widowed grandmother…

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Review of Little Joe (2019)

By Brent_Marchant (762) on 22 May 2020

This sci-fi/psychological thriller about a research horticulturist who breeds a plant designed to help promote feelings of human happiness…

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Review of What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael (2019)

By Brent_Marchant (762) on 30 Apr 2020

This cinematic homage to one of film criticism's most influential -- and controversial -- representatives provides audiences with a passable…

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Review of Brian Banks (2019)

By Brent_Marchant (762) on 23 Apr 2020

Though somewhat formulaic in its presentation, director Tom Shadyac's genuinely earnest offering about an aspiring football player's 11-year…

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Review of Give Me Liberty (2019)

By Brent_Marchant (762) on 29 Mar 2020

Despite a handful of moments of inspired comedic brilliance, this shoestring-budget independent comedy-drama never quite nails it the way it…

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Review of Where's My Roy Cohn? (2019)

By Brent_Marchant (762) on 23 Mar 2020

This hard-hitting documentary about McCarthy Era counsel Roy Cohn presents a rather damning portrait of its subject, one whose relentlessness,…

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