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  Together 99 2023

  ★★★½ Watched 10 Sep 2023

  The idyllic dream of leftist commune living, where resources and skills are shared for the greater good, needs a key ingredient to work: people. Two decades after Lukas Moodysson’s Together. captured such a Stockholm community, we return to the lives of those we last saw in the 1970s––or in 2000, if you’re going by the film’s release––and the commune is running on fumes, comprising only Göran (Gustaf Hammarsten) and sole companion Klasse (Shanti Roney). As we’re introduced to the two…

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  Sing Sing 2023

  ★★★½ Watched 11 Sep 2023

  “We are here to become human again.” This is the mantra of the Rehabilitation Through the Arts program, founded in Sing Sing Correctional Facility, a prison just north of New York City, and the subject of Greg Kwedar’s emotionally restorative new feature. While led by a stellar Colman Domingo with an equally great supporting turn from Paul Raci, the majority of Sing Sing‘s cast knows the program all too well, either as alumni or currently going through it. That authenticity…

Popular reviews

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  West Side Story 2021

  ★★★★ Watched 29 Nov 2021 8

  Only Steven Spielberg could make a shot of someone standing in a puddle one of the most beautiful images of the year.

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  Bright 2017

  ½ Watched 22 Dec 2017 3

  "I'm going to be honest with you. I don't fuck with no fairies."
  "Fairy lives don't matter today!"
  "Dude, you can't go through elf town!"

  Will Smith says all of these lines with an earnest conviction in Bright, then there's still 1 hour and 45 minutes left.