Dune: Part Two
March is a wasteland for film — the place bad movies go to die after being rejected by the Academy and the box office. Every once in a while,…
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Thor: Love and Thunder
Tim couldn’t be with us this month, but fear not! We found a worthy replacement. After talking about him all year, Dan Baker is finally a guest on the Cinema…
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If Beale Street Could Talk
Barry Jenkins and Damien Chazelle both directed Oscar-nominated movies this year. The last time that happened was in 2017 when Chazelle’s La La Land was mistakenly announced as the Best…
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Soundtracks: The New Music of Religion
It was just a normal Sunday in 1963 in the town of Greenville, South Carolina, when “the last pocket of resistance to secularity in the Western world gave in and…
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The Shape of Water
You’d be forgiven for writing off Guillermo del Toro as just another genre director. Entries like Hellboy, Blade Runner II, Pacific Rim, and Crimson Peak fit neatly in that vein….
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The Trouble with Angels
I wasn’t sure about writing this review until reading a back issue of Film Comment wherein Joan Rivers listed it as one of her guilty pleasures. Please don’t ask for…
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Mother!
Darren Aronofsky’s Mother! abounds with religious metaphors as well as social commentary via cryptic symbolism impossible to definitively decipher. A mishmash of surreal imagery combines with increasingly compounding absurdity that…
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The Miracle Woman
As an average American high school student, in addition to being tested on what I could remember, I was tested on what I would become. There were personality tests, aptitude…
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War for the Planet of the Apes
This summer has been holding out on us. Over the past month, we’ve seen the rise of a lasso-wielding warrior, the ongoing drama of transforming cars, and the return of…
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Oil, Blood, and Daniel Plainview’s Journey to Isolation
There’s a moment in Paul Thomas Anderson’s 2007 epic There Will Be Blood where Daniel Plainview abandons control. The moments are sparse throughout the film, and one could even argue…
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