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Review of Palm Trees and Power Lines (2023)

By Jordan Raup (239) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 01 Mar 2023

While Palm Trees and Power Lines functions as a harrowing lesson for the worst-case scenarios of grooming, there’s an emptiness to the experience…

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Review of Linoleum (2023)

By Jordan Raup (239) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 21 Feb 2023

An effective concoction of cosmic mystery and earnest emotion to elevate its small-scale, homespun design, Colin West’s Linoleum evolves…

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Review of Magic Mike's Last Dance (2023)

By Jordan Raup (239) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 07 Feb 2023

Magic Mike’s Last Dance has an ample dose of humor, heart, and chiseled abs, but one wishes the trilogy capper felt more than perfunctory…

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Review of Landscape with Invisible Hand (2023)

By Jordan Raup (239) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 28 Jan 2023

Initially intrigues with its lo-fi sci-fi ambition but has too much on its mind without saying anything interesting at all…

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Review of passages (2023)

By Jordan Raup (239) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 28 Jan 2023

Ira Sachs’ radiantly sexual three-hander Passages couldn’t have assembled a finer trio of actors to explore modern love in all its splendor…

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Review of Passages (2023)

By Jordan Raup (239) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 28 Jan 2023

Ira Sachs’ radiantly sexual three-hander Passages couldn’t have assembled a finer trio of actors to explore modern love in all its splendor…

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Review of Earth Mama (2023)

By Jordan Raup (239) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 25 Jan 2023

Brimming with an inner life and an authenticity that shouldn’t be undervalued due to its tough subject matter, Leaf’s debut is a film without…

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Review of You Hurt My Feelings (2023)

By Jordan Raup (239) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 23 Jan 2023

Holofcener deftly juggles the emotions of every character, parsing exactly where each is coming from, lucidly and thoughtfully elaborating…

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Review of Past Lives (2023)

By Jordan Raup (239) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 23 Jan 2023

It’s a warm, patient film culminating in a quietly powerful, reflective finale, though its sum is greater than its parts when the first two…

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Review of Past Lives (2023)

By Jordan Raup (239) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 23 Jan 2023

It’s a warm, patient film culminating in a quietly powerful, reflective finale, though its sum is greater than its parts when the first two…

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Review of The Pale Blue Eye (2022)

By Jordan Raup (239) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 23 Dec 2022

If The Pale Blue Eye dances around potentially intriguing ideas––the dehumanization of being in the military and who ultimately answers…

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Review of Babylon (2022)

By Jordan Raup (239) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 16 Dec 2022

Babylon is a brash, bombastic, unwieldy comic opera conveyed with enough bad taste and directorial panache that it—refreshingly—registers…

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Review of Babylon (2022)

By Jordan Raup (239) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 16 Dec 2022

Babylon is a brash, bombastic, unwieldy comic opera conveyed with enough bad taste and directorial panache that it—refreshingly—registers…

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Review of Retrograde (2023)

By Jordan Raup (239) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 01 Dec 2022

Retrograde is a powerful reminder that conflict breeds conflict and enacting a plan trying to protect a certain group of people will always…

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Review of Retrograde (2022)

By Jordan Raup (239) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 01 Dec 2022

Retrograde is a powerful reminder that conflict breeds conflict and enacting a plan trying to protect a certain group of people will always…

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Review of Descendant (2022)

By Jordan Raup (239) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 21 Oct 2022

With remarkably immediate cinematography and an intimate understanding of its subjects, Descendant becomes an essential ideal of how to tell…

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Review of Pinocchio (2022)

By Jordan Raup (239) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 08 Sep 2022

While a murky, laborious affair, Pinocchio never feels wholly inept with the consummate craftsman at the helm, yet it’s certainly the director’s…

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Review of Pinocchio (2024)

By Jordan Raup (239) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 08 Sep 2022

While a murky, laborious affair, Pinocchio never feels wholly inept with the consummate craftsman at the helm, yet it’s certainly the director’s…

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Review of Puzzle (2018)

By Jordan Raup (239) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 05 Jun 2022

An earnest, clear-cut drama about the struggle for one woman’s liberation from the shackles of domesticity, Puzzle does what it sets out…

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Review of The Cathedral (2022)

By Jordan Raup (239) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 04 May 2022

It’s an ambitious undertaking for an 87-minute film, and while this lofty aim can result in a few passages striking a bit broad, one comes…

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