One of the most common stereotypes associated with critics is the presumed emotional distance from the characters and events that take place on the big screen. A “robot without a heart” is a description I’ve seen thrown at several journalists, but with the growth of the online film community, this… Read entire story.
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Frequently, all it takes is an extraordinary cast to convince me to give a film a chance. Having no knowledge of Sarah Polley’s previous movies, one would expect actresses like Claire Foy, Rooney Mara, Jessie Buckley, and Frances McDormand to be the selling point, but the truth is the premise… Read entire story.
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The mountains will call you. If you let them, maybe they will change you. There are two extraordinary films this year about mountains and how much they can change and shape and draw us in. As a mountain lover myself, I’m naturally drawn to these kind of films but rarely… Read entire story.
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As someone who has recently decided to move abroad, Mexican filmmaker Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s new film instantly needed to be added to my watchlist for the 2022 edition of the London Film Festival. Despite a filmmaker with only seven films in total in his portfolio, the writer-director has achieved a… Read entire story.
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Even as a film critic, i. e., someone who encounters the big screen more often than the average moviegoer, it’s rare to watch two distinguishable flicks consecutively and discover they have almost exactly the same pros and cons. Don’t Worry Darling and Crimes of the Future may share similar horror… Read entire story.
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