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‘She Paradise’ Is A Love Letter To The Autonomy of Young Women [AFI Review]

Robert Daniels
October 23, 2020 12:27 pm
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So far, between Kelly Oxford’s “Pink Skies Ahead” and Angel Kristi Williams’ “Really Love,” AFI Fest has delivered some incredible first-features from directors. Maya Cozier’s “She Paradise” is the newest addi...
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‘Pink Skies Ahead’: Kelly Oxford’s Debut Is Charming And Irresistible [AFI Review]

Robert Daniels
October 19, 2020 10:05 am
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The blue-haired Winona (Jessica Barden), while driving, vents to an unseen man about living with her parents. She fumes, “I want to stick a fork into an electrical socket every minute that I’m there.” A recent...

‘Really Love’: Angel Kristi Williams’ Debut Is A Timeless Black Romance [AFI Review]

Robert Daniels
October 17, 2020 12:00 pm
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We all need a little bit of romance right now. So often the romance genre offers escapist fairytales of destined love, people whisked away by an unlikely figure from their unlucky loneliness to an assured stat...
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‘I’m Your Woman’: Rachel Brosnahan Is Staggering In Julia Hart’s Wickedly Entertaining Thriller [AFI Review]

Robert Daniels
October 16, 2020 10:40 am
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Adorned with sunglasses and in a pink fur-trimmed robe, Jean (Rachel Brosnahan) sits reclined on her patio chair as she sips champagne. Bobbie Gentry’s “I Wouldn’t Be Surprised" — one of the film’s many soulfu...
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Luca Guadagnino Talks ‘We Are Who We Are,’ Unmade Projects & His Definition of Cinema [Interview]

Robert Daniels
October 15, 2020 12:09 pm
Features, Interviews, News
It seems even a pandemic cannot quell Luca Guadagnino’s creative spirit. The Italian auteur, known for the arresting “A Bigger Splash” and the body horror-remake “Suspiria,” among a bevy of uncompleted project...
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‘Red, White And Blue’: John Boyega Is Superb In Steve McQueen’s Challenging, And Unafraid ‘Small Axe’ Film [NYFF Review]

Robert Daniels
October 3, 2020 8:02 pm
Features, Festivals, News, Reviews
One of the great joys of the New York Film Festival has been watching Steve McQueen’s new film anthology “Small Axe.” Composed of five works set between the late-'60s and early-'80s, the two recently screened ...
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‘Good Lord Bird’: Ethan Hawke Is Delightfully Unhinged In Showtime’s New Abolitionist Series [Review]

Robert Daniels
September 28, 2020 10:29 am
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Did John Brown, the infamous abolitionist who led the 1859 raid on Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, really take a cross-dressing teenage slave under his wing and name him Onion? No, not at all. “The Good Lord Bir...
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‘Mangrove’: Revolution Sparks In Steve McQueen’s Uplifting ‘Small Axe’ Courtroom Drama [NYFF Review]

Robert Daniels
September 25, 2020 6:21 pm
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A West Indian proverb holds, “If you are the big tree, we are the small axe.” “Lovers Rock,” the first film made available of Steve McQueen’s Amazon miniseries “Small Axe,” first interpreted the saying as a me...
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‘The Trial Of The Chicago 7’: Aaron Sorkin’s Courtroom Drama Provokes Your Outrage, But Often Feels Manufactured [Review]

Robert Daniels
September 24, 2020 9:00 pm
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Abbie Hoffman (Sacha Baron Cohen), Jerry Rubin (Jeremy Strong), Tommy Hayden (Eddie Redmayne), Rennie Davis (Alex Sharp), David Dellinger (John Carroll Lynch), John Froines (Daniel Flaherty), and Lee Weiner (N...
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‘Lovers Rock’: Steve McQueen’s Dance-Filled ‘Small Axe’ Entry Is Surprisingly Tender [NYFF Review]

Robert Daniels
September 17, 2020 4:15 pm
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Oscar-winning director Steve McQueen’s films rarely have a light touch. For example, “Hunger” recounts the life of IRA member Bobby Sands, and the group’s organized hunger strike; “Shame” depicts sex addiction...
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‘Good Joe Bell’ Is A Redemptive Drama That Succumbs To Its Own Shallow Straight Gaze [TIFF Review]

Robert Daniels
September 14, 2020 10:30 pm
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Near the beginning of the film is a scene where Joe Bell (Mark Wahlberg) stands in front of an assembled group of high schoolers to speak about bullying. The gruff father shares two points: Understanding begin...
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‘Concrete Cowboy’ Is A Lyrical Genre-Bending Urban Western, But Doesn’t Always Coalesce [TIFF Review]

Robert Daniels
September 13, 2020 9:00 pm
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No genre romanticizes America’s manifest destiny mythos more than the western. For decades, the construct featured white men conquering the frontier from Native Americans and law enforcement. In fact, no image...
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‘MLK/FBI’ Is A Scathing Look At The FBI’s Attempts To Destroy Martin Luther King Jr. & The Civil Rights Movement [TIFF Review]

Robert Daniels
September 13, 2020 12:38 pm
Festivals, News, Reviews
It’s 1963, and throngs of Black folks have packed the National Mall for the March on Washington. Images of jubilant men and women holding flags, and dressed in their Sunday best, strewn across the screen. They...
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‘American Utopia’: Spike Lee & David Byrne Create An Exhilarating & Joyful New Concert Film Classic [TIFF Review]

Robert Daniels
September 10, 2020 11:00 am
Features, Festivals, News, Reviews
Spike Lee and David Byrne aren’t an obvious pairing. While the former’s oeuvre, for the most part, features unflinching stories about Black life in America, the latter became a hero to white college-educated t...
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‘Come & See’: Elem Klimov’s Nightmarish WWII Movie Is An Unflinching Masterpiece Finally Available Via Criterion

Robert Daniels
August 13, 2020 4:06 pm
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Evoking realism, hyperrealism, and the surreal, Elem Klimov’s nightmarish, technically marvelous 1985 movie “Come and See,” is a mesmerizing and legendary, if little-seen, WWII masterpiece that finally receive...
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