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Review of Schooled: The Price of College Sports (2013)

By Louis Proyect (533) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 24 Nov 2013

Produced by ML King Jr. biographer Taylor Branch who makes the case that college athletes are like indentured servants…

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Review of Musicwood (2012)

By Louis Proyect (533) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 12 Nov 2013

Why preserving the Martin guitar is as important in the long run as saving the spotted owl or the snail darter…

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Review of At Berkeley (2013)

By Louis Proyect (533) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 11 Nov 2013

I wish I could rate this as frotten since Wiseman's filmmaking is as adept as ever, even though the politics of the film is hostile to the…

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Review of People of a Feather (2012)

By Louis Proyect (533) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 08 Nov 2013

Visually stunning and featuring the always engaging Inuits, the film hones in on the threats to the animals they rely on for survival but all…

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Review of The Green Wave (2012)

By Louis Proyect (533) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 25 Oct 2013

A reminder that the first instance of the Arab Spring might have occurred in Iran…

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Review of The Green Wave (2011)

By Louis Proyect (533) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 25 Oct 2013

A reminder that the first instance of the Arab Spring might have occurred in Iran…

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Review of We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks (2013)

By Louis Proyect (533) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 23 Oct 2013

A subtle trashing of Wikileaks by someone echoing the outlook of the NYT and the Guardian--anxious to make a buck off of the leaks but anxious…

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Review of The Fifth Estate (2013)

By Louis Proyect (533) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 23 Oct 2013

A throwback to red scare movies of the 1950s with Julian Assange portrayed as the fanatical intellectual bent on destroying bourgeois society…

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Review of Gravity (2013)

By Louis Proyect (533) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 16 Oct 2013

Much less than meets the eye. A victim once again of the professional critic's blurb machinery…

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Review of All Is Lost (2013)

By Louis Proyect (533) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 16 Oct 2013

Like Gravity, a film about survival that opens to great acclaim--in this case well-deserved…

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Review of God Loves Uganda (2013)

By Louis Proyect (533) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 10 Oct 2013

Colonialism is alive and well in Uganda. How the evangelicals use their superior wealth and power to force their sexual politics on a weaker nation…

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Review of A Touch of Sin (2013)

By Louis Proyect (533) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 04 Oct 2013

Zhangke is a throwback to the golden age of cinema, evoking Ray, Kurosawa and Sembene…

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Review of Lost Rivers (2013)

By Louis Proyect (533) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 03 Oct 2013

A reminder that ecology is not just about clean air and water but the right of urban dwellers to enjoy the spiritual and esthetic benefits…

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Review of A River Changes Course (2013)

By Louis Proyect (533) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 03 Oct 2013

Deeply compassionate and artistically realized study of the Cambodian poor by a Cambodian. Remarkable testimony to the power of committed film-making…

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Review of Inch'Allah (2012)

By Louis Proyect (533) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 27 Aug 2013

The director stated she did not intend to make a political film. It shows…

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Review of Closed Circuit (2013)

By Louis Proyect (533) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 27 Aug 2013

Can't make it up whether it is John Le Carre or Robert Ludlum. It ends up as quite a mess…

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Review of Fruitvale Station (2013)

By Louis Proyect (533) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 25 Aug 2013

A good first film but not quite deserving of the hype…

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Review of The Help (2011)

By Louis Proyect (533) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 25 Aug 2013

Lifetime Channel movie with paternalistic liberalism bordering on Paula Deen malignity…

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Review of Elysium (2013)

By Louis Proyect (533) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 16 Aug 2013

The latest in a string of anti-corporate dystopian films that has the evil CEO's overthrown by a superhero rather than the workers…

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Review of The Conjuring (2013)

By Louis Proyect (533) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 16 Aug 2013

A pastiche of every horror movie you've ever seen but one that is enlivened by the screenplay written by the twin brothers who wrote the superlative…

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