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In Third Person , the characters are so intentionally mysterious that, oddly, the surfeit of enigma denies them any depth of personality.
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Begin Again is a film with considerable flaws and strengths. The later include stellar performances by Mark Ruffalo, Catherine Keener, and Hailee Steinfeld.
If drummer Ginger Baker’s staring into the abyss, he’s doing it with defiance and a good beat.
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Lift explores so many divergent issues that it would have been easy for the filmmakers to only give lip service to problems it raises. Thankfully, that is not the case.
Even given the over-the-top wish-fullfillment of the film’s plot, Escapement’s weak dialogue and lack of subtlety proves to be its ultimate undoing.
The beauty of this documentary is that even as it makes you laugh, the story’s essential sadness remains. Though it is very fast-paced, the film makes you stop and think — it’s as unsettling as it is charming.
Echo’s Bones is a fascinating immersion, somewhat inept in its means, but sincere and gravely serious, in a subject that Samuel Beckett made increasingly his own.
Arts Fuse critics select the best in music, film, theater, visual arts, author readings, and dance that’s coming up in the next week.
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