“Whiteness can incinerate a family with the heat equal to a bomb,” intones narrator Travis Wilkerson, the filmmaker and subject of […]
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In a year that gave us The 15:17 to Paris and Gotti, the claim that the most heinous cinematic crime committed […]
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Rather than acting as a release valve on the past few years, 2018 continued to increase the pressure, as American culture […]
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If there was ever something to make me realize that pasty dudes talking about movies on Twitter wasn’t indicative of the […]
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The Mark Duplass-produced Unlovable is a refreshingly honest depiction of a woman’s road to recovery from sex addiction, based on writer […]
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Two teenage girls, one a self-admitted sociopath, the other a spoiled schemer, conspire to commit murder in Cory Finley’s brilliantly incisive […]
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This year saw a phoenix-like rebirth of the elemental spirit we call Nicolas Cage, with the actor rising from the ashes […]
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In the midst of his Elisabeth Moss trilogy (consisting of Listen Up Philip, Queen of Earth, and Her Smell), indie auteur […]
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In an alternate (and, frankly, better) universe, Augustine Frizzell’s Never Goin’ Back would have been one of the biggest comedy hits […]
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The documentary RBG gives a fine overview of the life and work of Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, but the fictionalized […]
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Dick Cheney is fascinating – in the morbid way that villainous figures throughout history almost always are. But is George W. Bush’s […]
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One hesitates to mention right off the bat that Bumblebee is a Transformers prequel, lest discerning readers assume Bumblebee is bad and should be […]
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