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FIFTY SHADES FREED Review
What really drags this film below its predecessors is how seriously it takes itself.
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A FUTILE AND STUPID GESTURE Review
National Lampoon was in no way politically correct, and this film uses that fact to call attention to the legitimate problems with the magazine at the time and the people writing it, making them the butt of many a joke for being out of touch even then.
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Slamdance 2018: FAKE TATTOOS Review
Fake Tattoos is a lovely first feature, even if at times it feels like the French Canadian punk version of a number of different romantic films from Garden State to Before Sunrise.
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Slamdance 2018: CIRCUS ECUADOR Review
This film documents The WISHI Project, an American philanthropic effort organized largely by one woman, which goes to a remote indigenous community to build a school.
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Slamdance 2018: PICK OF THE LITTER Review
Pick of the Litter is 2018’s Kedi, exploiting the inherent cuteness of these small animals to hack human emotional instincts.
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Slamdance 2018: ROCK STEADY ROW Review
This is a badass little film about badass people doing badass things. Definitely worth the watch.
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Mynt’s Top 10 Films of 2017
As we begin publishing our top films of the year, we’ll start with Mynt Marsellus and his solid list of must-sees from 2017.
1. Call Me By Your Name – If the score from a movie you saw a month ago
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CALL ME BY YOUR NAME Review
Joy is in short supply these days, and I wish everyone finds something that gives them as much joy as Call Me By Your Name gave me.
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DARKEST HOUR Review
When you already have the heartwarming Their Finest and the compelling Dunkirk to come out this year, this by-the-numbers World War 2 movie simply feels inadequate for our times.
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THE DISASTER ARTIST Review
A movie that seems impossible about a movie that seems impossible.
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THE KILLING OF A SACRED DEER Review
It is not an exaggeration to call the film entrancing, drawing you into each scene with perfect filmmaking and perfectly surreal acting to force you through two hours of dread.
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GEOSTORM And The Beautiful Mess of Disaster Films
The critics at the Cahiers Du Cinema had a practice in the first decades of the magazine to let admirers of a given director review that director’s films. The thought was to give those with the best chance of seeing a film’s
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THE MEYEROWITZ STORIES Review
Baumbach’s recent output has all been distinctly happier than his first few films, but the underlying personal crises seem more devastating.
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BLADE RUNNER 2049 Review
Blade Runner 2049 is the kind of movie that university students will be writing papers on for decades to come.
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Tiff 2017: MY DAYS OF MERCY Review
A romantic drama about the death penalty is a hard concept to pull off, but the film handles the dual conflict of Lucy’s relationship with her father and her relationship with Mercy with a lot of grace.
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