“Narration from Isadore happens throughout the course of the film, but it’s not aimed at the audience. Rather, he’s talking directly to this ex-boyfriend - spoken with great prose and worded for optimal impact.”
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“Mortal Kombat rights many wrongs from the previous adaptations; most notably the films R rating.”
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“From a Western perspective, issues facing India only seem to make it on the radar if situations have gotten dire … and so Writing with Fire adopts an easily digestible style that brings to the fore the lesser-known, less digestible news stories that don’t typically reach us.
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“Any Given Day ultimately becomes about laying yourself bare, and both Margaret and her subjects should be commended for their strength and perseverance in sharing an especially tumultuous and taxing five-year period of their lives.”
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“Come Back Anytime is about savouring the time that we have, and about the community that savours with you when the time you have made for yourself is a product of passion, love, and play.”
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“Archipelago (Archipel) is a spellbinding experiment with words, animated images, and occasional snippets of archival footage, combined to often transfixing effect as the island clusters of the director’s native Quebec are surveyed across time and channelled psychically.”
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“There is a savagery inherent to Thana’s life on the planet, a brutality that drills right down to the bone marrow. Wickedness has worked its way into the hearts of men in all corners of her existence and potentially all stages of her life.”
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“When Malcolm X sees his reflection, it is in the hotel room’s windows; he isn't looking at himself so much as he is peering through or past himself to the external threats that conspire against him — the bigger picture. This is telling, because through this simple device we see that it is Malcolm who is most cognizant of the ripple effect this night will have outside the hotel walls.”
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“It is a film that strikes with punchy dialogue and colourfully coiffured characters, but under-utilized plot threads dull its sharpness in the end.”
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“There is a spirit in craft beer the world over that is very specific to California, and Brewmance is at its best when it is charting this spirit through the history of the region and into its modern embodiments of Ten Mile and Liberation.”
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