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Review of Anomalisa (2015)

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

As admirable as Anomalisa is in so many ways, by the end, I wanted to be more moved…

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Review of The Witch (2016)

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

The Witch plays mercilessly on our dread of what might be lurking in the shadows, rather than actually showing much onscreen-and is all the…

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Review of I Saw the Light (2016)

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

It's like watching somebody else's home movies-interesting for awhile, but not personally involving…

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Review of Indignation (2016)

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

We never connect to him as an individual to care about; he's a stick figure created to bear the brunt of all the angst directed at the outsider…

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Review of The Girl on the Train (2016)

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

[Emily] Blunt is terrific in the complicated role of Rachel, as flawed, vulnerable, and misguided as she often is…

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Review of The Promise (2017)

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 The Promise (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 Carol (1990)

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 Café Society (2016)

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

If Blue Jasmine was Woody Allen's homage to A Streetcar Named Desire, then his latest, Café Society, evokes Casablanca, both in tone and romanticism…

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Review of The Revenant (2015)

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

It's more like a post-morality play in which greed, commerce, violence, and villainy are so deeply entrenched that no one emerges with his…

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Review of Beatriz at Dinner (2017)

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

It seems to address the chasm between the top 2 percent and the rest of us without offering either solutions or catharsis…

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Review of Born to Be Blue (2015)

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

There are moments when Ethan Hawke's performance as Baker strikes just the right note of fragile, demon-haunted vulnerability…

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Review of Me Before You (2016)

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

It would be useful if the filmmakers allowed Lou (and the viewer) to actually witness some of the crippling pain everyone tells her Will experiences…

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Review of Fences (2016)

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

It's a meaty tour-de-force of comic camaraderie, defiance, disillusion, and chutzpah, that [Denzel] Washington delivers con brio-and it's only…

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Review of Love & Friendship (2016)

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

Filmmaker [Whit Stillman] has learned some of the [Jane Austen's] wit and subtlety, while tossing out the vapid whining that so often mars…

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Review of Complete Unknown (2016)

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

[Director Joshua Marston] sets us up for a complex drama, but only delivers a prologue…

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Review of Genius (2016)

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

The movie is as in love with words and their power as Tom is…

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Review of Hail, Caesar! (2016)

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

The more you know about Hollywood in the so-called Golden Age (roughly late 1930s through early '50s), the bigger kick you're likely to get…

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Review of A Ghost Story (2017)

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

If a movie refuses to make linear sense, we expect to be affected on some deeper level that makes it all worthwhile…

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Review of Citizen Jane: Battle for the City (2017)

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

Guess what? You can fight City Hall…

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