Film, Film & TV, Review

Review: Boston Strangler Explores the Gender Politics and Misogyny in 1960s Serial Killer Case

With the rampant popularity of true-crime stories in all possible mediums, it’s no surprise that the tale of the so-called Boston Strangler finally makes it to a movie screen, loaded […]

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Review: The Many Saints of Newark Is a Welcome—and Fitting—Addition to “The Sopranos” World of Crime, Family and Loyalty

Many Saints of Newark

Editor’s note: yes, the series is 20 years old, however mild plot spoilers are included in this review. If you’ve never seen “The Sopranos,” you’ve been warned. “The Sopranos,” arguably […]

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Review: Absurd, Intense The Art of Self-Defense Skewers Toxic Masculinity

Art of Self-Defense

Jesse Eisenberg has made a name for himself playing tightly wound, neurotic types, from future media moguls (as Mark Zuckerberg in The Social Network) to unsuspecting zombie fighters (as Columbus in Zombieland […]

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Review: Parenting Drama Weightless Lacks Any Heft At All

Weightless

The aptly titled Weightless is all about an aimless man named Joel (Alessandro Nivola) who meets and must parent his emotionally damaged, 10-year-old son Will (newcomer Eli Haley), who has […]

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Interview: Sebastián Lelio on Portraying Woman in Disobedience and a New Version of Gloria

disobedience

Considered one of the foremost filmmakers of post-dictatorship Chilean cinema, Sebastián Lelio (much like his contemporaries Pablo Larraín, Andrés Wood, and Sebastian Silva) has been making some of the most […]

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Review: Disobedience Thoughtfully Channels the Necessity of Rebellion

Disobedience

On the heels of a well-deserved Oscar win (Best Foreign Language Film for last year’s A Fantastic Woman), Sebastián Lelio returns to theaters this week with Disobedience, a story of love and loss […]

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