Month: September 2016

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Other People ★★★

Other People is the kind of Sundance-y tragicomedy that has the capacity to really produce a heavy duty eye-roll from me, but Chris Kelly (a comedy writer for Saturday Night Live and Broad City) does deliver someRead Full Review

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White Girl ★½

One cannot make the claim that Elizabeth Wood’s White Girl puts on any airs. Even its direct title puts an image in the audience’s mind of a certain kind of person. Leah, the film’s protagonist playedRead Full Review

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The Light Between Oceans ★★★

Derek Cianfrance’s The Light Between Oceans is probably too long. It’s probably too dependent on overwrought emotion, manipulating its audience with tight close-ups of its beautiful cast crying with forlorn pain. But the film reached me.Read Full Review