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The filmmakers use their story to point towards a way to help us navigate through our own polarization; it has something to do with each of us widening our perspective to take in more than just our immediate experience.
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Some pithy quotes to keep in mind for the New Year.
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At a time when ambitious women of any sort were often harshly criticized for pursuing a professional career, Barbara Rose only forged on.
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The film feels amateurish in the most complimentary Stendhalien sense: created in a spirit of play, rather than a sweaty effort to advance a studio agenda.
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Producer Ted Olson is on a mission in We Shall Be Reunited to do justice to the past; he imagines a beautiful alternative to the current ballyhooed origin story of country music.
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Lots of artists made recordings during their lockdowns that have been released as vinyl, streams, videos and, in the case of the Attractors and Flying Vipers, even cassette tapes.
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In its efforts to subvert well-known tropes, and reclaim the subgenre’s feminist cultural potency, Promising Young Woman undercuts its own transgressive potential by doing away with what makes rape-revenge films compelling.
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Some of the best music documentaries of 2020 – and some disappointments
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Our theater critics pick some of the outstanding productions of a year truncated by COVID-19.
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Film Review: The Best Horror of 2020
It was the most terrifying of times, it was the most horrifying of times.
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