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Review of The Only Living Boy in New York (2017)

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

You may guess part of the mysterious history linking these characters before all is revealed, but that shouldn't interfere with the pleasure…

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Review of The Dressmaker (2015)

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

When a movie invites you to question its very reason for being, there's something wrong in the design…

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Review of Toni Erdmann (2016)

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

There's a lot more going on beneath the surface in this offbeat meditation on family, aging, the passage of time, and the meaning of happiness…

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Review of Lady Macbeth (2016)

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

This is not a movie to take to your heart, but as a psychological character study, it's both grueling and profound…

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Review of Passengers (2016)

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

[Morten] Tyldum wisely sticks to the human story at the center of this epic-looking tale of the vast, unchartered terrain of the human heart…

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Review of Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie (2016)

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

As a movie, there's not much there, but it's still touching when Eddie admits their outrageous antics are their only defense against the fear…

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Review of Manchester by the Sea (2016)

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

[Manchester By the Sea] is a life-sized story about recognizably human characters whose dilemmas stay with us…

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Review of Carol (2015)

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 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 20th Century Women (2016)

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

This movie, too, is like a collection of snapshots, frozen in time, as each generation struggles to understand eternal human mysteries that…

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Review of My Cousin Rachel (2017)

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

My Cousin Rachel is a bracing homage to the Du Maurier spirit that invites us to ponder, but never tells us exactly what to think…

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Review of The Big Short (2015)

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

The filmmakers understand how arcane the business of credit-swaps and C.O.D.s can be to the layperson…

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Review of Demolition (2016)

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

This script should have been taken apart more carefully before it reduced the movie to rubble…

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Review of Little Men (2016)

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

There's no easy resolution to the story, and Sachs doesn't try to impose one. Instead, he offers a wistful coda in which Life, inevitably, goes on…

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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 La La Land (2016)

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

La La Land is a virtuoso production that gives us all something to sing (and dance) about…

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Review of Gifted (2017)

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

What elevates the movie far above the standard courtroom drama is the tender relationship between Frank [Chris Evans] and little Mary [Mckenna Grace]…

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