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Saltburn (2023) |
Fennell gives us such great dialogue in “Saltburn,” but not an inspired story. Though that’s certainly fun to watch, particularly among a large theatrical audience that’s game for it, it leaves a lot to be desired. - Huffington Post
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| Posted Nov 20, 2023
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May December (2023) |
We’re left with plaguing questions that challenge what we hold dear: our entertainment, our source of empowerment, our safety. - Huffington Post
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| Posted Nov 18, 2023
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Thanksgiving (2023) |
It checks off a lot of boxes that have been missing from too many genre entries today. Shock value? Check. Gore? Big time. - Huffington Post
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| Posted Nov 18, 2023
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The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes (2023) |
It fails to validate its existence beyond the Hollywood routine of squeezing every dollar out of a successful franchise. It doesn’t really add anything to the overall narrative. It’s just… more story. And for no reason at all. - Huffington Post
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| Posted Nov 18, 2023
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What Happens Later (2023) |
What’s missing in “What Happens Later” is outright startling: whimsy. Or maybe it’s heart — or both? Basically, there’s something vacant behind the metaphoric eyes of the film, because there’s nothing going on beneath the surface. - Huffington Post
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| Posted Nov 03, 2023
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The Creator (2023) |
“The Creator” asks the audience to care excessively about AI and dismiss the justifiable concerns of its human characters — even as our real-life battle against the technology rages on. Why should we? - Huffington Post
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| Posted Sep 29, 2023
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Dream Scenario (2023) |
A darkly funny, and often truthful, look at the rapid hysteria of our real-world cancel culture, Borgli’s latest helps cement him as a provocative and wildly entertaining voice for our times. - Huffington Post
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| Posted Sep 14, 2023
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His Three Daughters (2023) |
Carrie Coon, Elizabeth Olsen and Natasha Lyonne astound as siblings who are stubbornly at odds with each other and whose only common ground is the impending death before them. - Huffington Post
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| Posted Sep 14, 2023
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Solo (2023) |
Showing equal care for both the dazzling drag performances and the more delicate moments in the film, Dupuis delivers a beautiful reflection of the human spirit. - Huffington Post
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| Posted Sep 14, 2023
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Concrete Utopia (2023) |
Concrete Utopia remains disturbingly and crushingly human. - Huffington Post
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| Posted Sep 14, 2023
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We Grown Now (2023) |
We Grown Now is a satisfying experience of home through a child’s eyes.
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| Posted Sep 14, 2023
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Sleep (2023) |
Though it doesn’t stray far outside the typical ghost movie, it is proof that you don’t always have to reinvent the wheel if you have a solid story and excellent use of effects. - Huffington Post
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| Posted Sep 14, 2023
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Fitting In (2023) |
Fitting In is an at-times hilarious and consistently engrossing look at a flawed but earnest teenage girl in the process of redefining her new normal. - Huffington Post
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| Posted Sep 14, 2023
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Anatomy of a Fall (2023) |
Triet masterfully turns our attention from potential crime-solving to the inner workings of two imperfect people and one complicated marriage. It’s absolutely riveting. - Huffington Post
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| Posted Sep 14, 2023
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The Teachers’ Lounge (2023) |
The film is a taut, fascinating drama about the hills we choose to die on. - Huffington Post
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| Posted Sep 14, 2023
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Woman of the Hour (2023) |
Woman of the Hour isn’t a great movie. It’s a film about a lot of things that don’t always come to fruition. - Huffington Post
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| Posted Sep 14, 2023
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American Fiction (2023) |
It ultimately feels like it wants to be a broad comedy about race, yet wholly uninterested in what it wants to say about it. - Huffington Post
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| Posted Sep 14, 2023
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Barbie (2023) |
Is “Barbie” a fun time at the movie theater? Absolutely. Will it make you laugh, and maybe even tear up at points? For sure. Then the filmmakers, and Mattel, did their job. - Huffington Post
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| Posted Jul 20, 2023
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Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning, Part One (2023) |
Amid its terrific action sequences, comedic wit and — somewhere deep within that — heart, the movie is helping to sound a much-needed alarm. - Huffington Post
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| Posted Jul 12, 2023
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The Little Mermaid (2023) |
Yes, to have a Black princess in a major Hollywood film is, sadly, forward-thinking in 2023. But there is nothing innovative or reformist about what happens in this movie. - Huffington Post
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| Posted May 26, 2023
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Beau Is Afraid (2023) |
It starts out intriguing, great even, before spiraling into something bizarre and pointlessly bloated. - Huffington Post
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| Posted Apr 25, 2023
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Air (2023) |
Consider this framing all in the name of a thrilling cinematic experience that serves the main objective of every film: to tell a great story. And “Air” is a riotous, worthwhile and surprisingly heartfelt film that does just that. - Huffington Post
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| Posted Apr 05, 2023
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Creed III (2023) |
A fascinating film from a new director who seems unafraid of moments of teary defeat that manifest into something far more introspective and self-nourishing — even when that’s between two brawny Black men at odds with each other and themselves. - Huffington Post
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| Posted Feb 24, 2023
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Knock at the Cabin (2023) |
If there is some kind of allegory on violence that is supposed to be going on in “Knock at the Cabin,” the movie and its story are certainly not smart enough for it to come to fruition. - Huffington Post
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| Posted Feb 21, 2023
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Magic Mike's Last Dance (2023) |
Tatum, whose stripper past first inspired the character, looks more comfortable than ever in a role that, like the film, is in equal parts funny, playful, sexy and sincere — despite being in the business of fantasy. - Huffington Post
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| Posted Feb 21, 2023
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Mamacruz (2023) |
A simple yet masterful feat all around. - Huffington Post
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| Posted Feb 03, 2023
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The Persian Version (2023) |
A funny, soulful journey across language and time that also offers an illuminating look at the complexities of motherhood and identity. - Huffington Post
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| Posted Feb 03, 2023
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birth/rebirth (2023) |
Truly haunting stuff. - Huffington Post
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| Posted Feb 03, 2023
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Little Richard: I Am Everything (2023) |
This is one of those instances where a film thoughtfully reexamines previously established truths about a musician’s legacy so fervently that it completely upends you. - Huffington Post
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| Posted Feb 03, 2023
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Fair Play (2023) |
Has the distinction of being both slick and thorny at the same time — and utterly arresting. - Huffington Post
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| Posted Feb 03, 2023
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Judy Blume Forever (2023) |
You’re not expecting this documentary detailing the storied life and impact of beloved YA novelist Judy Blume to touch you the way it does, to the point you’re on the verge of tears. - Huffington Post
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| Posted Feb 03, 2023
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Weird: The Al Yankovic Story (2022) |
“Weird: The Al Yankovic Story” becomes an unhinged freefall that aims for all laughs and exactly zero substance. - Huffington Post
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| Posted Dec 16, 2022
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Not Okay (2022) |
As deft as “Not Okay” is for realizing the virtually vampiric nature of how trauma is absorbed in today’s culture, it completely avoids engaging with the role race plays. - Huffington Post
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| Posted Dec 16, 2022
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X (2022) |
It's crass and ghastly, with an on-the-nose premise fit for the often- sensationalist slasher genre and the salacious X-rated cinema embedded in this story. - Huffington Post
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| Posted Dec 16, 2022
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The Whale (2022) |
The movie might largely be remembered for being somber, an emotion that stays at the forefront of the narrative, but it’s optimism that buoys its ending. - Huffington Post
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| Posted Dec 13, 2022
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Halloween Ends (2022) |
“Halloween Ends” is a bummer. And everything about it makes it seem like it’s willing to go. We should let it. - Huffington Post
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| Posted Dec 06, 2022
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Don't Worry Darling (2022) |
Hollow and disappointing. - Huffington Post
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| Posted Dec 06, 2022
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The Menu (2022) |
It’s easy to point and laugh at the rich, or feel a sense of vindication... But you still walk away feeling hungry. - Huffington Post
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| Posted Dec 06, 2022
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Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (2022) |
It makes for a profoundly empty viewing experience. - Huffington Post
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| Posted Dec 06, 2022
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Sidney (2022) |
“Sidney” doesn’t bother to simplify details around Poitier’s biography, nor does it try to complicate his story. Rather, it honors the very real complexities of the life he lived. - Huffington Post
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| Posted Dec 06, 2022
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They/Them (2022) |
It comes off like the filmmaker had no idea what kind of story he wanted to create around his capable cast. - Huffington Post
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| Posted Dec 06, 2022
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Nope (2022) |
Closer to the slick visuals of “Get Out” but with a more probing narrative, akin to “Us,” “Nope” is as much an experience as all of Peele’s efforts, with a similarly intriguing premise. - Huffington Post
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| Posted Dec 06, 2022
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The Batman (2022) |
“The Batman” reaches for an ingenious and compelling new way to tell a story about the thin lines between corruption, greed and nobility — but ever so limply and always just out of its grasp. - Huffington Post
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| Posted Dec 06, 2022
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Marry Me (2022) |
As pleasing and cute as “Marry Me” definitely is, it also falls prey to a few major issues in Lopez’s church of rom-com. - Huffington Post
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| Posted Dec 06, 2022
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Scream (2022) |
it's a foolish knockoff that tries desperately to become a clone of the OG film for a new generation despite not being fresh, smart or even fully coherent at times. Though, again, it's called "Scream," it borders more on shrill. - Huffington Post
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| Posted Jan 14, 2022
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13TH (2016) |
DuVernay underscores the blatant yet rarely discussed clause within the 13th amendment of the Constitution. - AWFJ.org
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| Posted Nov 30, 2021
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Keanu (2016) |
With Keanu, Jordan Peele and Keegan-Michael Key take their wildly popular comedy genius to the big screen. - AWFJ.org
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| Posted Sep 29, 2021
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Race (2016) |
Just when I was beginning to lose hope when it comes to Hollywood's disturbing penchant for seeing black characters as victims, Race comes along. - AWFJ.org
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| Posted Sep 29, 2021
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The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show (2020) |
Thoughtful and fascinating. - The Grio
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| Posted Jul 03, 2021
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The One and Only Dick Gregory (2021) |
Like its subject, The One and Only Dick Gregory makes an indelible mark in both history and entertainment. - The Grio
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| Posted Jul 03, 2021
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