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Roger Ebert once said that cinema is an empathy machine. I believe it’s also a remembering machine. “Remembrance,” though not apparent in all of my selections, is the theme that most often guides a list — composed of documentaries, interrogations…
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Rating: 2/4 Lee Abbott (John Krasinski) pulls up in his pick-up truck on main street. A long tracking shot captures him walking past the town’s small businesses: a couple wave from the local diner, a dog sits in a truck.…
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Rating: 3/4 With regards to the latest installment in the contemporary kaiju franchise reboot, Godzilla vs Kong, I could complain about why the terribly drawn human characters needlessly suck the oxygen from the main fighting attraction. I could explicate the…
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2020 was a year of extreme changes in our day to day lives as the COVID pandemic spread into every facet of our world, mostly for the worst. However, there was a silver lining: a vast, wonderful expansion of personal…
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Rating: 4/4 The Holocaust may be one of the most, if not the most widely portrayed event in media, especially when you look at European cinema in comparison to the United States, but it is traditionally very single-faceted. Yes, obviously…
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Rating: 4/4 It’s said that humanity, regardless of borders and boundaries, can all be united by the same simple things: food, music, art, and stories. Whether through speech, sign language, or pictograms, the art of storytelling has existed probably as…
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Rating: 2/4 The werewolf wears many suits of fur in horror cinema. It can symbolize the animalistic nature of mankind, primal rage, destructive hedonism, even puberty. They vary in morality as well: from neutral, to evil, to an almost protector…
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Contrary to popular belief, the pandemic did not significantly dent the wealth of cinematic offerings. This is the third year I’m accumulating my end of the year list (which admittedly is coming very late after 2020) and it’s the hardest…
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Rating: 4/4 Mental illness is the backbone of the horror genre. From penny dreadfuls and the eerie short stories about “madness” like The Yellow Wallpaper to seminal works like To The Lighthouse and films such as Jacob’s Ladder and Relic,…
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Rating: 1.5/4 2020 was a long year for all of us. It was only a matter of time before the endless specter of the COVID pandemic was woven into a film with all the questions of human nature, selfishness, and…
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