film reviews
“Green Book” only scratches surface about race—and that’s ok
November 16, 2018An exposé of systemic racism and oppression this film is not. Then again, it doesn’t appear that it was trying to be.
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‘Boy Erased’ exposes so-called gay conversion therapy
November 8, 2018A whole industry has grown up around the fraudulent premise that homosexual orientation can simply be “prayed away.”
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‘In Dubious Battle’ will screen in L.A.
October 19, 2018The film treats a subject that is still all too relevant: the fight for a living wage.
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‘hillbilly’ and ‘Life and Nothing More’: Two films about soul-crushing poverty
October 16, 2018Two new films are currently on the horizon that are well worth seeing.
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‘First Man’: The wrong stuff, from claustrophobia to the cosmos
October 11, 2018The image of a helmeted Gosling being used to advertise First Man walks that fine line between being a homage to or a rip-off of the far superior film 2001.
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