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Reviews

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  Fool's Paradise 1921

  

  Erik Gregersen ★★★★★

  “What did you see,” you asked.

  “It’s hard to say. It was wondrous. And tawdry. And heart-wrenching and absurd. And sublime.”

  “What was it about?”

  “It was about great love,…

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  Brawl in Cell Block 99 2017

  

  sallitt

  Brawl in Cell Block 99. Deliberate in its shot choices, minimalist in spirit. The early scenes have awkward aspects but were my favorites, with Vaughn’s divided state - extreme anger,…

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  Gretel & Hansel 2020

  

  eugenen ★★★★

  *Extremely* my jam, delivering on the promise of THE BLACKCOAT’S DAUGHTER and I AM THE PRETTY THING THAT LIVES IN THE HOUSE with a genuinely unsettling 90-minute plunge into the…

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  Frozen II 2019

  

  Ken Rudolph ★★

  A sequel of such mediocrity that it almost defies understanding. Sure, the Disney animation machine still functions at the top level artistically. But the lame story featuring sister princesses, and…

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  5B 2018

  

  Ken Rudolph ★★★★★

  In 1983, the first dedicated AIDS ward was established on the 5th floor of the San Francisco General Hospital. This emotionally resonant documentary tells the story of that ward from…

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  The Standoff at Sparrow Creek 2018

  

  preston ★★½ 1

  Wanted to see this for two reasons, because it made the A.V. Club's list of 25 best films so far but also because it won a big script contest where…

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  Document of the Dead 1981

  

  Kent M. Beeson ★★★½ 1

  All documentaries get three stars, + 1/2 star if they include Romero's amazing Fantastic Voyage-inspired Calgon commercial, which is like Guy Maddin working in color.

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  Skate Kitchen 2018

  

  Jeremy Heilman ★★ 1

  This is so low-stakes with such lazy attempts at dramatization (poor Elizabeth Rodriguez!) that you have to wonder why Moselle didn’t just make a documentary featuring the nonactors among the…