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Review of Step (2017)

By Lisa Jensen (117) for Good Times Santa Cruz (117) on 10 Sep 2017

The subject is serious, but the mood of the film is affirmative and joyful…

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Review of Carol (1974)

By Lisa Jensen (117) for Good Times Santa Cruz (117) on 10 Sep 2017

In the Golden Age of Hollywood-the 1940s and '50s-there was a genre called the 'woman's picture.' Contemporary filmmaker Todd Haynes has become…

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Review of Wind River (2017)

By Lisa Jensen (117) for Good Times Santa Cruz (117) on 10 Sep 2017

The resonance of [Jeremy] Renner's understated acting, moments of unexpected visual splendor, and mounting psychological intensity make it…

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Review of High-Rise (2015)

By Lisa Jensen (117) for Good Times Santa Cruz (117) on 10 Sep 2017

It would be one thing if Laing's discoveries led him to some sort of action. But he's happy to embrace the 'weird hierarchy' of the status quo…

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Review of Wonder Woman (2017)

By Lisa Jensen (117) for Good Times Santa Cruz (117) on 10 Sep 2017

But this attempted revamp of the boys-club superhero genre dares to suggest that a person of conscience might put her invincible physical prowess…

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Review of Lion (2016)

By Lisa Jensen (117) for Good Times Santa Cruz (117) on 10 Sep 2017

Lion stirs emotions, but the storytelling is straightforward, not cloying…

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Review of Killing for Love (2016)

By Lisa Jensen (117) for Good Times Santa Cruz (117) on 10 Sep 2017

Shifting focus away from history to follow the exploits of these fictive characters has the effect of reducing the Armenian tragedy to background…

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Review of Logan (2017)

By Lisa Jensen (117) for Good Times Santa Cruz (117) on 10 Sep 2017

[Hugh] Jackman is up to the task, as usual…

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Review of Letters from Baghdad (2017)

By Lisa Jensen (117) for Good Times Santa Cruz (117) on 10 Sep 2017

Calling all uppity women…

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Review of Carol (1970)

By Lisa Jensen (117) for Good Times Santa Cruz (117) on 10 Sep 2017

In the Golden Age of Hollywood-the 1940s and '50s-there was a genre called the 'woman's picture.' Contemporary filmmaker Todd Haynes has become…

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Review of Moana (2016)

By Lisa Jensen (117) for Good Times Santa Cruz (117) on 10 Sep 2017

Bursting with color, music, beautiful seagoing vistas, and the mythology and folkways of the Pacific Islands, Moana is guaranteed to cure your…

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Review of The Music of Strangers: Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble (2016)

By Lisa Jensen (117) for Good Times Santa Cruz (117) on 10 Sep 2017

[Filmmaker Morgan Neville] knows a great music doc needs to feature not only wonderful music, but also dynamic personalities to perform it,…

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Review of Elle (2016)

By Lisa Jensen (117) for Good Times Santa Cruz (117) on 10 Sep 2017

In a part that's decidedly not warm and cuddly, in an often disturbing film, it's [Isabelle Huppert's] subtlety, craft, presence, and her ability…

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Review of Eddie the Eagle (2016)

By Lisa Jensen (117) for Good Times Santa Cruz (117) on 10 Sep 2017

The filmmakers rely on Peary's brooding soul-searching and his need to redeem the downward slide of his own life and career through Eddie to…

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Review of Money Monster (2016)

By Lisa Jensen (117) for Good Times Santa Cruz (117) on 10 Sep 2017

Money Monster [is] a smart, fast-paced thriller…

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Review of The Handmaiden (2016)

By Lisa Jensen (117) for Good Times Santa Cruz (117) on 10 Sep 2017

[The Handmaiden is] gorgeously shot and composed, audacious, and full of witty visual asides…

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Review of Personal Shopper (2016)

By Lisa Jensen (117) for Good Times Santa Cruz (117) on 10 Sep 2017

It seems to be going in interesting directions, scrupulously building up elements of mystery, horror, philosophical pondering, character study,…

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Review of Their Finest (2017)

By Lisa Jensen (117) for Good Times Santa Cruz (117) on 10 Sep 2017

Their Finest realizes it may not be able to achieve all of its conflicting objectives, as the bombs rain down around them…

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Review of Denial (2016)

By Lisa Jensen (117) for Good Times Santa Cruz (117) on 10 Sep 2017

This may not read like the most dynamic set-up for onscreen drama…

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Review of 45 Years (2015)

By Lisa Jensen (117) for Good Times Santa Cruz (117) on 10 Sep 2017

Less is definitely more in the haunting marital drama 45 Years…

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