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Review of Barry (2016)

By Louis Proyect (533) for Counterpunch.org (73) on 11 Nov 2016

Filled with implausible incidents meant to buttress the premise that Obama was an outside to both Blacks and whites and generally devoid of…

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Review of Peter and the Farm (2016)

By Louis Proyect (533) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 02 Nov 2016

More like Charles Bukowski than Henry David Thoreau, the eponymous farmer featured in this brilliant film is a reminder that documentaries…

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Review of Before the Flood (2016)

By Louis Proyect (533) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 21 Oct 2016

A stunning achievement that despite its understandable inability to ground its critique in the capitalist system that is the root of all our…

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Review of Into the Inferno (2016)

By Louis Proyect (533) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 13 Oct 2016

A reminder that volcanoes can be just as deadly as grizzly bears and just as much of an inspiration for arguably the world's greatest septuagenarian…

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Review of Homeland: Iraq Year Zero (2016)

By Louis Proyect (533) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 06 Oct 2016

An outstanding film both artistically and politically. I only wish that there were parts 3 and 4…

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Review of 13th (2016)

By Louis Proyect (533) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 30 Sep 2016

Another work of genius from one of America's outstanding directors and social critics…

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Review of The Birth of a Nation (2016)

By Louis Proyect (533) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 30 Sep 2016

Finally a film about slavery by an American director that is the artistic and political peer to Gillo Pontecorvo's Burn…

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Review of Do Not Resist (2017)

By Louis Proyect (533) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 29 Sep 2016

In the 60s the left used to refer to the cops as an occupying army. This fine documentary shows how reality has caught up with the rhetoric…

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Review of I, Daniel Blake (2016)

By Louis Proyect (533) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 27 Sep 2016

Ken Loach at his very best. It might be subtitled Why Jeremy Corbyn became Labour leader…

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Review of Southwest of Salem: The Story of the San Antonio Four (2016)

By Louis Proyect (533) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 15 Sep 2016

A reminder of how documentary filmmakers are using the videocamera in the same way that earlier generation of revolutionaries used the printing…

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Review of Snowden (2016)

By Louis Proyect (533) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 14 Sep 2016

Pay no attention to the rottens. This is vintage Oliver Stone and powerful story-telling about a true American hero…

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Review of Come What May (2015)

By Louis Proyect (533) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 08 Sep 2016

A poignant tale of a mass exodus that will certainly relate to today's tragedy, even if some shallow film critics can't make that connection…

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Review of Neruda (2016)

By Louis Proyect (533) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 08 Sep 2016

A fascinating examination of the role of radical artist in bourgeois society that prioritizes the drama of an individual rather than the social…

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Review of The Business of Amateurs (2016)

By Louis Proyect (533) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 23 Aug 2016

This is the definitive documentary on the big business of amateur sports covering NCAA exploitation, the risks of CTE and the general slave-like…

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Review of Abortion: Stories Women Tell (2016)

By Louis Proyect (533) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 11 Aug 2016

Absorbing documentary on the erosion of abortion rights that leads to interrogation of how this could happen with a White House verbally committed…

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Review of Cameraperson (2016)

By Louis Proyect (533) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 27 Jul 2016

A selection from 24 films by an outstanding cameraperson and human being…

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Review of Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World (2016)

By Louis Proyect (533) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 15 Jul 2016

Werner Herzog is always in search of the obsessed oddball, either a German-American inspired to become a pilot after seeing allied bombers…

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Review of Free State of Jones (2016)

By Louis Proyect (533) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 27 Jun 2016

Brilliant film-making combined with historical accuracy. Pay no attention to the Rotten reviews here…

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Review of Parched (2015)

By Louis Proyect (533) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 16 Jun 2016

Powerful melodrama that combines Thelma and Louise with Bollywood conventions…

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Review of Hockney (2014)

By Louis Proyect (533) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 21 Apr 2016

Mesmerizing documentary on an artist who is both modern and very old-fashioned in his painterly approach…

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