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• Farewell, My Lovely

  Farewell, My Lovely 1975

  

  Joe ★★★★½

  Maybe the most luxuriant Hollywood period piece I've ever seen, even the dust seems era appropriate, did this just cost $50 million to make or did they use a time…

• Personal Problems

  Personal Problems 1980

  

  JesseCataldo ★★★★

  In spite of some vivid subject matter concerning the topic - namely Harlem Renaissance novels and period-piece throwback movies - the Great Migration has always remained a bit oblique in…

• Crazy Rich Asians

  Crazy Rich Asians 2018

  

  Clayton Dillard ★★

  Tenure-track NYU Professors make like $100,000 a year. Econ professors, probably more. The film treats Dr. Chu’s profession like she’s a manager at P.F. Chang’s. With the New York Times…

• Hale County This Morning, This Evening

  Hale County This Morning, This Evening 2018

  

  🔮 dana danger 🔮 ★★★½

  So much is amazing about this - particularly from a first-time filmmaker. The beauty, the intimacy, the physicality, the joys of living a black rural life are all presented here…

• Creed

  Creed 2015

  

  Willow Maclay ★★★★½ 2

  If you're going to reboot something it should be recontextualized through a different lens. Make it modern, reshape the legacy in a way that honours the history of previous images…

• Can You Ever Forgive Me?

  Can You Ever Forgive Me? 2018

  

  matt lynch ★★½ 2

  When I was in the seventh grade I forged my parents' signatures on my report card, and managed to get away with it for a few months until they wondered…

• The Ballad of Buster Scruggs

  The Ballad of Buster Scruggs 2018

  

  matt lynch ★★★½ 17

  The evolution of the CGI deer continues unabated.

• Burning

  Burning 2018

  

  Filipe Furtado ★★★½

  As deliberate as Lee's other movies, but more focused and driven. Burning is not exactly a thriller, far too in love of its structural absences and ambiguities to quite build…