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Apr 21, 2020
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At 34, Bridget (Kelly O’Sullivan) was not expecting to be working minimum wage and sleeping with a man nearly ten years her junior.
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Feb 12, 2021
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It’s been said that good things come to those who wait, and after numerous delays, the highly-anticipated release of Saint Maud is finally here.
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Jan 19, 2021
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The three screenwriters of this film were all born before 1950, yet it aptly probes the experiences of several modern-day young people as they navigate their precarious romantic affairs.
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- by Kathleen Sachs
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Tags: Drama
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Jan 15, 2021
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In the middle of the Civil War, a Missouri-based family of affluent French immigrants decides to return to France; to do so, they hire a mercenary to aid them in crossing the war-torn country to New York, from where they’ll sail.
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May 5, 2020
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It’s remarkable how easy it is to become completely invested in the love and lives of Terry Donahue and Pat Heschel.
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Aug 4, 2020
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Amy Seimetz’s long-awaited sophomore feature is a movie for the moment.
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Jun 9, 2020
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Not so much a biopic as a fanciful evocation of its complex subject, Josephine Decker's Shirley (2020), adapted by former Chicago playwright Sarah Gubbins from Susan Scarf Merrell's 2014 novel, attempts the alchemical in conjuring Shirley Jackson's witchy claustrophobic literary magic, which found horror and humor in the mundane.
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Sep 9, 2020
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The formidable French filmmakers Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet take Italian writer Elio Vittorini’s 1941 novel Conversations in Sicily and turn it into a Brechtian musical of sorts, one largely without any actual music.
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- by Kathleen Sachs
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Tags: Drama
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Feb 15, 2021
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Drenched in a dreamlike quality, The Sinners lures viewers into a dark and deadly world where writer-director Courtney Paige’s influences from Scream to Jawbreaker bleed through brilliantly.
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Nov 9, 2020
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Based on Joyce Carol Oates’s 1966 short story “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?,” this 1985 debut narrative feature by Joyce Chopra (Joyce at 34, The Lemon Sisters), scripted by her husband Tom Cole, retains the palpitant trepidation of Oates’s text to an unnerving degree.
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- by Kathleen Sachs
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Tags: Drama
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Jan 15, 2021
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Some Kind of Heaven offers an unfiltered look at life’s final act.
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Apr 21, 2020
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An urgent and heart-rending drama, Ken Loach’s 2019 film follows Ricky (Kris Hitchen), a stoic delivery driver and Abbie (Debbie Honeywood), a home care nurse.
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- by Nina Li Coomes
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Tags: Drama
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Dec 30, 2020
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In Disney and Pixar’s newest triumph of animation, Joe Gardner (Jamie Foxx) is a jazz pianist biding his time as a middle school band teacher, dreaming of being one of the greats.
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Nov 17, 2020
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Ruben (Riz Ahmed) is in a stable place for the first time in his life: he’s four years sober and touring as a drummer in a metal band with his longtime girlfriend (Olivia Cooke)—but his sense of the world shatters around him when he starts to rapidly lose his hearing.
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Oct 2, 2020
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Not for the faint of heart, this outré documentary by nonfiction filmmakers Elsa Kremser and Levin Peter is generally tedious despite its frequent attempts to be both empyreal and discomfiting.
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