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Review of Broken Diamonds (2021)

By Liam Lacey (1,725) for Original-Cin (1,156) on 21 Jul 2021

None of this is helped by Platt’s performance, with a petulant eye-roll to every impediment, as if he were the fussbudget Felix of The Odd…

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Review of Cousins (2021)

By Liam Lacey (1,725) for Original-Cin (1,156) on 21 Jul 2021

A poetic drama about the lives of three Maori girls from the 1950s to the 1980s, Cousins is a heart-breaker, tempered with hope…

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Review of Beans (2021)

By Thom Ernst (141) for Original-Cin (1,156) on 21 Jul 2021

Beans is an ambitious film that, for the most part, works…

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Review of Cousins (2021)

By Liam Lacey (1,725) for Original-Cin (1,156) on 21 Jul 2021

A poetic drama about the lives of three Maori girls from the 1950s to the 1980s, Cousins is a heart-breaker, tempered with hope…

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Review of Cousins (2021)

By Liam Lacey (1,725) for Original-Cin (1,156) on 21 Jul 2021

A poetic drama about the lives of three Maori girls from the 1950s to the 1980s, Cousins is a heart-breaker, tempered with hope…

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Review of Cousins (2021)

By Liam Lacey (1,725) for Original-Cin (1,156) on 21 Jul 2021

A poetic drama about the lives of three Maori girls from the 1950s to the 1980s, Cousins is a heart-breaker, tempered with hope…

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Review of Beans (2021)

By Thom Ernst (141) for Original-Cin (1,156) on 21 Jul 2021

Beans is an ambitious film that, for the most part, works…

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Review of Jolt (2021)

By Jim Slotek (879) for Original-Cin (1,156) on 20 Jul 2021

As utterly derivative action films go, Jolt has definite energy, and it’s not pretending to be original…

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Review of Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain (2021)

By Karen Gordon (174) for Original-Cin (1,156) on 15 Jul 2021

Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain is a carefully made film, a wonderful homage to a flawed hero…

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Review of Space Jam: A New Legacy (2021)

By Jim Slotek (879) for Original-Cin (1,156) on 14 Jul 2021

The fast pace is attention-span theatre for the young’uns, and the adult-aimed quips are entertaining for a while…

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Review of The Loneliest Whale: The Search for 52 (2021)

By Kim Hughes (164) for Original-Cin (1,156) on 13 Jul 2021

The Loneliest Whale is gripping and highly persuasive, blending hard science with real-life action/adventure sequences, talking-head interviews,…

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Review of Pig (2021)

By Jim Slotek (879) for Original-Cin (1,156) on 13 Jul 2021

If this seems like a bit of a deep dive when the subject is trendy restaurants in Portland, Pig is a serious movie with heady themes that just…

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Review of The Misfits (2021)

By Liam Lacey (1,725) for Original-Cin (1,156) on 12 Jul 2021

In sum, we have a silly Hollywood-style action movie with a Robin Hood theme, serving the ideology of an elitist authoritarian regime…

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Review of Meander (2021)

By Thom Ernst (141) for Original-Cin (1,156) on 08 Jul 2021

Meander, by director Mathieu Turi, uses the device of the escape room, or tunnel in this instance, as a way of negotiating the story of a woman’s…

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Review of Black Widow (2021)

By Karen Gordon (174) for Original-Cin (1,156) on 06 Jul 2021

Shortland has given us a fast-paced movie with action sequences, character depth, and very subtle social and political subtexts about the way…

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Review of Let Us In (2021)

By Thom Ernst (141) for Original-Cin (1,156) on 02 Jul 2021

Although Let Us In is billed as a science-fiction/horror for young adults, it’s hard to imagine anyone identifying as a teen or tween finding…

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Review of The Forever Purge (2021)

By Thom Ernst (141) for Original-Cin (1,156) on 02 Jul 2021

And though you can sense the influences of Mad Max, Escape from New York, and even a few influential forces from Walter Hill’s The Warriors,…

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Review of Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway (2021)

By Liam Lacey (1,725) for Original-Cin (1,156) on 01 Jul 2021

Taken in micro-doses, Peter Rabbit 2 has clever moments and a relentless eagerness to please…

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Review of The Tomorrow War (2021)

By Jim Slotek (879) for Original-Cin (1,156) on 01 Jul 2021

With echoes of Starship Troopers (minus the pointed satire), The Tomorrow War, starring Chris Pratt, is the second noisy “temporal war”…

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Review of Zola (2021)

By Kim Hughes (164) for Original-Cin (1,156) on 30 Jun 2021

There is a bristling, neon energy to Zola which, given its provenance as a series of real-life tweets from waitress and exotic dancer (and…

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