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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 The Hunt (2013)

By David N. Butterworth (570) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 17 Sep 2016

Mikkelsen makes this personal horror show his own with a powerful and remarkably controlled performance…

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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 Hail, Caesar! (2016)

By David N. Butterworth (570) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 30 Aug 2016

I enjoyed their films. Particularly the early, good ones…

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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 Locke (2014)

By David N. Butterworth (570) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 14 Aug 2016

Together, Knight and Hardy take us on an extraordinary journey…

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Review of I Smile Back (2015)

By David N. Butterworth (570) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 14 Aug 2016

Silverman is excellent, but she could use a better script…

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Review of The Lobster (2015)

By David N. Butterworth (570) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 14 Aug 2016

The Lobster peters out about halfway through but regardless, director Lanthimos and co-writer Filippou have constructed a singular and ambitious…

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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 Hired Gun (2017)

By David N. Butterworth (570) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 03 Jul 2016

An A-list roster of session musicians--on tour with the likes of KISS, Pink, and Billy Joel--get their 15 minutes of fame in director Fran…

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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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