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Gary Garrison

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Combat Obscura (2018) 100% B EDIT “While some films edge closer to the ghastly reality, and others capture the tedium, none seem to embody the stark duality as "Combat Obscura" so fully.” – The Playlist Mar 17, 2019 Full Review Honeyland (2019) 100% A EDIT “There is an unassuming languidness to Ljubomir Stefanov and Tamara Kotevska's anthropologic documentary.” – The Playlist Mar 5, 2019 Full Review Wrestle (2018) 100% A- EDIT “"Wrestle" is a moving and haunting portrait of four young men fighting to win a golden ticket.” – The Playlist Feb 23, 2019 Full Review Midnight Traveler (2019) 98% A- EDIT “Midnight Traveler is a brutally honest film about the hardship and inhumanity a family endures and their bravery, love, hope, and, above all else, desire to control their own fate.” – The Playlist Jan 28, 2019 Full Review Fyre (2019) 93% B EDIT “Fyre is a perfect example of this new era in storytelling where even the most damning interactions are intentionally filmed - because if it didn't get shared online, did it actually happen?” – The Playlist Jan 15, 2019 Full Review This Is Congo (2017) 95% EDIT “It's a stark and unsettling truth that "This Is Congo" manages to flesh out thoroughly enough to make up for its flaws elsewhere.” – The Playlist Nov 6, 2018 Full Review Alt-Right: Age of Rage (2018) 88% B- EDIT “Lough's film doesn't endorse the alt-right, and some damning historical context is applied to suss out the atrocity of certain ideas. Potok is an especially welcome presence for his rigorous examination. Still, Age of Rage doesn't ever chart new ground.” – The Playlist Oct 23, 2018 Full Review B- EDIT “This impossible-to-miss parallel is a good portion of what gives Charles Ferguson's Watergate its urgency. It's also what is most likely to glue you to your seat for 260 minutes of this thorough and engaging, but generally uninspiring, film.” – The Playlist Oct 17, 2018 Full Review The Great Buster: A Celebration (2018) 94% B- EDIT “More than a documentary, "The Great Buster" is a tribute to an icon.” – The Playlist Sep 1, 2018 Full Review Signature Move (2017) 100% C EDIT “Seen on its own, "Signature Move," while intermittently quirky and fun, is a misfire that's down for the count. But seen on the spectrum of progress, it's hard not to appreciate this wily fighter.” – The Playlist Jun 8, 2018 Full Review The World Before Your Feet (2018) 100% B+ EDIT “Its lackadaisical start is too unassuming and a little too much basic information is withheld for a bit too long. Still, it's a genuinely pleasant film that revels in the pleasure of simply wandering this strange, beautiful world we live in.” – The Playlist Mar 23, 2018 Full Review Take Your Pills (2018) 58% B EDIT “Take Your Pills juggles each of these threads with ease, despite at times feeling like a product of the attention deficit generation it's examining: cluttering the screen with animations and frantic cuts.” – The Playlist Mar 21, 2018 Full Review Cuban Food Stories (2018) 60% B- EDIT “It's hard not to feel that something is lacking, that some throughline is missing, that the key narrative entree was lost amid the vibrant but not-quite-filling courses.” – The Playlist Feb 22, 2018 Full Review 306 Hollywood (2018) 81% B EDIT “An engaging and tenderly drawn film that is likely to resonate with anyone who has had to do the tireless work of sorting through an estate of a family member.” – The Playlist Jan 26, 2018 Full Review Loveling (2018) 95% B- EDIT “"Loveling" becomes a movie of great highs and awkward lows, the sort of film that inevitably becomes a sign of all the great things everyone involved will eventually do, rather than a testament to what they've done.” – The Playlist Jan 22, 2018 Full Review This Is Home: A Refugee Story (2018) 75% A- EDIT “"This Is Home" is no "City of Ghosts" or "Last Men In Aleppo," it is unlikely to cause the seismic quake required to shake the apathy from the masses, but it is a much-needed reminder that a journey never quite ends when you think it does.” – The Playlist Jan 22, 2018 Full Review The Newspaperman: The Life and Times of Ben Bradlee (2017) 94% B EDIT “The trouble with figures like Bradlee, though, is that they loom so large, their actions so monumental, that it feels impossible to merely define them by their achievements, which is more or less what Maggio's movie does.” – The Playlist Dec 5, 2017 Full Review Along for the Ride (2016) 70% C EDIT “Nick Ebeling's movie sets its sights on adulatory tribute, needlessly venerating films like "The Last Movie" and generally adorning Hopper's legacy with saintliness.” – The Playlist Nov 2, 2017 Full Review Dealt (2017) 96% A- EDIT “It's well shot but never flashy, and it's well cut, making for a generally rounded film that disappears behind the larger than life personality at its core, a height few films manage to reach.” – The Playlist Oct 19, 2017 Full Review Dina (2017) 96% B+ EDIT “The documentary form has answered the call and offered up one of the most surprising and thoughtful romantic comedies of the year in "Dina."” – The Playlist Oct 6, 2017 Full Review Death Note (2017) 36% D+ EDIT “Adam Wingard's film is an incoherent mess of tones and styles, confused character motives, and murky narratives.” – The Playlist Aug 21, 2017 Full Review To the Bone (2017) 69% C+ EDIT “Addiction creates a messy, tangled web of anguish, where the hurt is spread far and wide, and while there are several narrative points that are short-shifted, "To The Bone" works hard to do justice to that reality.” – The Playlist Jul 13, 2017 Full Review Mr. Chibbs (2016) 43% B- EDIT “while "Mr. Chibbs" never manages to transcend its formulaic approach, it remains a minor key delight, a thoughtful, resonant look at what it means to be Kenny Anderson.” – The Playlist May 25, 2017 Full Review School Life (2017) 94% A- EDIT “Really, none of In Loco Parentis is particularly new or exciting... But it certainly succeeds in being a joyous, humane look at the role that school, education, and, most importantly, teachers have in the lives of such malleable minds.” – The Playlist May 12, 2017 Full Review Gifted (2017) 73% C EDIT “"Gifted" is often so divorced from genuine human emotions that it never feels less than phony.” – The Playlist Apr 7, 2017 Full Review
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