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Fruitvale Station Review
There’s no shortage in the number of movies based on a historical tragedy. It is a spine-tingling experience, watching people going through the catastrophe depicted on-screen. It is natural to feel great sorrow towards the victim. After all, the narration tends to focus on their life, their backstory and their point of view to make […]
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Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri Review
Its satisfying when you open a Royal Dansk tin box expecting an oddly assembled sewing kit but find it filled with buttery cookies. Pick a film these days, any one of those critically acclaimed features which aspire to obtain a little golden knight holding a crusader’s sword and you can expect either one of the […]
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Blade Runner 2049 Review
We’ll get to those flying cars eventually. If we haven’t killed each other by then. Denis Villeneuve may just be another man with a difficult to spell surname, but this French-Canadian director has quickly risen to be one of the most competent ones in these times. His body of work is diverse, his style – subtle […]
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13 Reasons Why Review
Who pays for Tony’s gas? Honestly… Being an adult, I am privy to modern television series and movies which are rated for mature audiences. So used to it that, in fact, killing off fan-favorite characters will make me go “Oh that’s brave. Clever. Did not see it coming. Didn’t think they had it in them […]
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Dunkirk (2017) Review
Contains more jump-scares than a conventional slasher-fest. Ever since Memento, there isn’t a film in his resume that hasn’t bent convention or redefined genres. Christopher Nolan – the name enough to make people shell out their bank deposits and line up outside IMAX screens has now created, not just a war movie, but a war […]