Tag: Movie Review
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Rejecting “The Prom”-posal – Movie Review
Despite everything it was capable of, all of these poor choices strung together amount to nothing more than a counter-productive film.
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It’s a bird, it’s a plane…it’s Harriet!
Harriet is a tribute to an American legend, and the reverence for Harriet Tubman is obvious in this film. As many reviews have mentioned, this is not a slavery story, it is a freedom story. The viewers only see Harriet as a slave for the first few minutes of the film. To me, it felt…
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“The Hate U Give” Film Review
Based on the best-selling novel by Angie Thomas, the title of both the film and novel finds it’s roots in late recording artist, Tupac Shakur. According to Shakur, THUG LIFE was actually an acronym standing for ‘The Hate U Give Little Infants Fucks Everyone’. Starr Carter (played by Amandla Stenberg of “The Hunger Games”) has…
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‘Malcolm & Marie’ Review: A Promising Premise With Disappointing Results
Sam Levinson’s latest film can’t keep up with the excellence of its performances.
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Building ‘Herself’ Back up After Psychological & Physical Trauma
A movie covering sensitive and serious topics is necessary in our world. This review of Amazon Studio’s Herself contains spoilers — proceed with caution! Herself is directed by Phyllida Lloyd, best known for directing Mamma Mia! and The Iron Lady, and written by Malcolm Campbell and the star of the film, Clare Dunne. The film illustrates the life of a single mother who struggles to…
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‘Pariah’ Review: An Important and Untold Story of Identity
‘Pariah’ tells a powerful, mesmerizing, and unflinchingly honest story of identity.
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Movie Review: Sofia Coppola’s ‘On the Rocks’
The film does not add anything to its own conversation or genre, and falls flat once it’s about to end and must declare some sort of conclusion.
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‘Still’ Movie Review: An Interesting Premise, but Poor Execution
Overall this movie was an easy watch, but by no means a worthwhile watch.
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Revisiting ‘Shaft’ in 2019: The Father-Son Comedy That Cops Out
The ‘Shaft’ remake fails to capture blaxpoitation’s rebellious spirit.
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‘Someone Great’: Loss in the City
“We were so happy… idiots.” Someone Great is the reason I want to be in love and simultaneously, never fall in love again. When Jenny (Gina Rodriguez) and Nate (LaKeith Stanfield)- her long-term boyfriend of nine years- break up so Jenny can move to pursue her career in music journalism, Jenny leans on her two best…