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Review of Nine Lives (2016)

By Qi Z (173) on 28 Mar 2017

Are you kidding me, Kevin S? From House of Card to the Litterbox of a fuzzy cat…

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Review of The 100 Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared (2013)

By Qi Z (173) on 19 Mar 2017

A dark, Swedish Forest Gump with wit and intelligence, and heart…

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Review of Genius (2016)

By Qi Z (173) on 03 Feb 2017

It is a sensitive but not histrionic depiction of Maxwell Perkins and Thomas Wolfe. The last scene of Kidman is very unexpectedly good…

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Review of Hunt for the Wilderpeople (2016)

By Qi Z (173) on 30 Jan 2017

A hilariously funny and warm story of two strays who survived the wild of New Zealand (and its Child Care system)…

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Review of Wild Strawberries (2012)

By Qi Z (173) on 18 Dec 2016

This is not as good as Fanny and Alexander, although it is a rueful examination of a life at the end of it (instead of F&A's beginning of life)…

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Review of Wild Strawberries (1957)

By Qi Z (173) on 18 Dec 2016

This is not as good as Fanny and Alexander, although it is a rueful examination of a life at the end of it (instead of F&A's beginning of life)…

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Review of Fanny and Alexander (1982)

By Qi Z (173) on 15 Dec 2016

How does one narrate a personal history…

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Review of Sicario (2015)

By Qi Z (173) on 11 Dec 2016

Similar to Zero Dark Thirty, this movie explores both the violence in drug war as well as the ambiguity of morality in such situations…

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Review of Autumn Sonata (1978)

By Qi Z (173) on 26 Nov 2016

A harrowing examination of a mother-daughter relationship…

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Review of Contact (1997)

By Qi Z (173) on 15 Nov 2016

Many years I watched it and did not like it…

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Review of Solaris (2002)

By Qi Z (173) on 14 Nov 2016

A re-make of the original Russian Solaris by streamlining into a simpler story of Dante's Purgatorio with a benevolent Solaris. Very interesting…

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Review of Mr. Holmes (2015)

By Qi Z (173) on 07 Nov 2016

The literary device is the familiar Sherlock Holmes, but the true story is about the meaning instead of the fact, the memory versus the record…

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Review of The Theory of Everything (2014)

By Qi Z (173) on 20 Oct 2016

Sometimes edging too close to sentimentality, it is still a remarkably moving film…

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Review of Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989)

By Qi Z (173) on 19 Oct 2016

Behind all the crimes and misdemeanors are the unresolved question of theodicy -- is there a God care enough to exercise justice in our lives…

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Review of Road to Perdition (2002)

By Qi Z (173) on 11 Oct 2016

A stoic tale of revenge by a father-son pair…

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Review of Spotlight (2015)

By Qi Z (173) on 03 Oct 2016

A gritty, strong film with incredible performance. The Catholic Church as an institution comes out in sharply deliberated dark light…

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Review of The Big Short (2015)

By Qi Z (173) on 01 Oct 2016

The story is well-told beyond the mechanics of the game, but at the level of human morality and psychology…

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Review of Anesthesia (2016)

By Qi Z (173) on 30 Sep 2016

An ensemble piece questioning the purpose of life…

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Review of Boyhood (2014)

By Qi Z (173) on 28 Sep 2016

Almost like watching a semi-documentary as we witness Mason and Samantha naturally grow up from the time they were young to until they grow up…

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Review of Boyhood (1951)

By Qi Z (173) on 28 Sep 2016

Almost like watching a semi-documentary as we witness Mason and Samantha naturally grow up from the time they were young to until they grow up…

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