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Review of Mediterranea (2015)

By Louis Proyect (533) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 14 Nov 2015

Both topically and dramatically, this is a film that matters more than most when immigration has reached an explosive status with people fleeing…

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Review of Democrats (2014)

By Louis Proyect (533) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 13 Nov 2015

Although somewhat limited by the cinéma vérité framework, this is a fascinating study of two men on the opposite of the barricades searching…

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Review of Trumbo (2007)

By Louis Proyect (533) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 06 Nov 2015

Ignore the rotten reviews here, at least if you are looking for superlative filmmaking combined with a timely message about how the rich and…

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Review of Trumbo (2015)

By Louis Proyect (533) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 06 Nov 2015

Ignore the rotten reviews here, at least if you are looking for superlative filmmaking combined with a timely message about how the rich and…

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Review of In Jackson Heights (2015)

By Louis Proyect (533) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 06 Nov 2015

Frederick Wiseman, now 85, has made a politically engaged film about people confronting the gentrification that is robbing NY of its soul…

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Review of Where to Invade Next (2015)

By Louis Proyect (533) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 06 Nov 2015

Moore is as engaging as ever but the film's message is nonsense…

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Review of The Royal Road (2015)

By Louis Proyect (533) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 29 Oct 2015

An offbeat experimental film that mixes Spalding Gray type monologue, California history and film history…

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Review of The Pearl Button (2015)

By Louis Proyect (533) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 23 Oct 2015

A stunning combination of art and politics. My pick for best documentary of 2015 and probably of the past decade…

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Review of Racing Extinction (2015)

By Louis Proyect (533) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 22 Oct 2015

A prophetic call for action against capitalist waste of natural resources, as well as some stunningly beautiful vistas above and below the…

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Review of Dukhtar (2014)

By Louis Proyect (533) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 08 Oct 2015

Oddly enough, a plot similar to Mad Max: Fury Road but a million times more interesting--and by a first-time director, no less…

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Review of Winter on Fire: Ukraine's Fight for Freedom (2015)

By Louis Proyect (533) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 08 Oct 2015

Gets the street fighting and the voices of the participants right but little else…

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Review of The Dark Horse (2014)

By Louis Proyect (533) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 24 Sep 2015

The finest movie ever made about the game of chess as well as a deeply perceptive take on the brutal conditions indigenous peoples face in…

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Review of Pawn Sacrifice (2015)

By Louis Proyect (533) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 24 Sep 2015

Stick to the HBO documentary…

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Review of Backdraft (1991)

By David N. Butterworth (570) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 09 Sep 2015

Ron Howard's film is one of smoke-eaters, crispers, and torches... and it bestows a renewed respect on a profession all too often taken for granted…

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Review of Bulletproof Monk (2003)

By David N. Butterworth (570) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 06 Sep 2015

Not to put too fine a point on it, but Bulletproof Monk is a rather large piece of garbage…

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Review of Kinsey (2004)

By David N. Butterworth (570) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 04 Sep 2015

Kinsey, like the pioneering sex researcher profiled therein, reduces its subject to a bit of a dry academic exercise…

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Review of Eye of the Dolphin (2007)

By David N. Butterworth (570) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 04 Sep 2015

Blandly acted, idiotically written, and incomprehensibly directed, Eye of the Dolphin is quite possibly one of the most incompetently made…

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Review of Gone Baby Gone (2007)

By David N. Butterworth (570) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 04 Sep 2015

An out-and-out triumph for the Brothers Affleck…

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Review of Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine (2015)

By Louis Proyect (533) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 27 Aug 2015

Gibney has a really great ability to consider the contradictions that made up Steve Jobs, a thorough scumbag who had an artist's flair for technology…

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Review of Jobs (2013)

By Louis Proyect (533) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 27 Aug 2015

The critics screwed up on this. It is a much better film than its rating here…

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