Tag: Movie Review
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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…
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‘Water Lilies’ and the Journey of Identity – Movie Review
A gentle coming of age story, Water Lilies takes its time in exploring what it’s like to be a young girl trying to make sense of her sexuality in a heteronormative world.
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Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom; A Lesson in Blues -Movie Review
“Now death. Death got some style. Death will kick your ass and make you wish you never been born. That’s how bad death is. But you can rule over life. Life ain’t nothing” -Levee (Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom) Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, directed by George C. Wolfe and adapted from the August Wilson play, is a…
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Get Out Movie Review
It’s no wonder Peele won an academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. His script is layered with perspective and subtlety. Through a terrific vision, Peele creates the gift that keeps on giving. The clues and symbolic representations are aplenty, and as each viewing passes, you are destined to find something new. That’s a mark of…
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“Dead Poets Society”: Why Neil’s Father Stood Before The Law
When you think of this brilliant Peter Weir drama, you might remember the famous ‘O Captain! My Captain!’, the ingenious portrayal of John Keating by the late Robin Williams. If you’re Indian you might be unlucky enough to remember the horrible remake of this classic (Mohabbatein), or you might remember ‘Carpe Diem’. What I remember…
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Queen & Slim: Needs a Trim
After years of being ignored, shut down, or shifted around, I think we’re finally getting somewhere with black cinema getting its due. I think it is finally at the point where mainstream audiences will just watch a movie for black audiences and not have it feel forced or empty. It’s not at the level it…