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Thursday, December 17, 2020

Secrets & Lies - 1996

Great: B+

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Wednesday, December 16, 2020

David Byrne's American Utopia - 2020

Great: B+

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Sunday, December 13, 2020

Cool Hand Luke - 1967

Very Good: B

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Thursday, December 3, 2020

Field of Dreams - 1989

Very Good: B-

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Saturday, November 28, 2020

Lovers Rock - 2020

Very Good: B-

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Friday, November 27, 2020

Mangrove - 2020

Very Good: B-

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Tuesday, November 24, 2020

Casino - 1995

Great: B+

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Friday, November 20, 2020

Trading Places - 1983

Very Good: B-

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Wednesday, November 18, 2020

Defending Your Life - 1991

Very Good: B

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Sunday, November 15, 2020

Broadcast News - 1987

Very Good: B-

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Saturday, November 14, 2020

The Player - 1992

Very Good: B

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Friday, November 13, 2020

Perfect Blue - 1997

Great: B+

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Saturday, November 7, 2020

Unforgiven - 1992

Very Good: B-

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Saturday, October 31, 2020

Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery of Prodigious Bribe to American Regime for Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan - 2020

Very Good: B-

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Monday, October 26, 2020

Monos - 2019

Very Good: B-

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Sunday, October 25, 2020

mother! - 2017

Very Good: B

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Friday, October 23, 2020

I, Daniel Blake - 2016

Very Good: B

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Wednesday, October 21, 2020

Minding the Gap - 2018

Very Good: B-

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Monday, October 19, 2020

A Serious Man - 2009

Very Good: B-

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Sunday, October 18, 2020

Castle in the Sky - 1986

Great: B+

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Sunday, October 11, 2020

Man on Wire - 2008

Very Good: B-

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Sunday, September 27, 2020

Son of Saul - 2015

Very Good: B

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Monday, September 21, 2020

Paris Is Burning - 1990

Very Good: B

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Lost in America - 1985

Very Good: B-

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Saturday, September 19, 2020

The Godfather - 1972

Great: B+

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Thursday, September 17, 2020

The Battle of Algiers - 1966

Very Good: B

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Saturday, September 12, 2020

The French Connection - 1971

Very Good: B

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Monday, September 7, 2020

The Conformist - 1970

Very Good: B-

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Sunday, September 6, 2020

Never Rarely Sometimes Always - 2020

Great: B+

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Monday, August 31, 2020

Sling Blade - 1996

Very Good: B

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Saturday, August 29, 2020

The Farewell - 2019

Very Good: B-

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Sunday, August 23, 2020

You Go to My Head - 2017

Great: A

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Thursday, August 20, 2020

Sullivan's Travels - 1941

Great: A-

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Wednesday, August 19, 2020

Road to Perdition - 2002

Great: A-

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Sunday, August 16, 2020

The Fall - 2006

Great: B+

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Friday, August 14, 2020

Macbeth - 2015

Very Good: B-

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Wednesday, August 12, 2020

Black Rain - 1989

Very Good: B-

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Tuesday, August 11, 2020

Us and Them - 2018

Very Good: B

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Thursday, August 6, 2020

A Summer's Tale - 1996

Great: A-

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Wednesday, August 5, 2020

Anna Karenina - 2012

Very Good: B-

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Monday, August 3, 2020

The Assassin - 2015

Very Good: B-

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Saturday, August 1, 2020

On the Waterfront - 1954

Great: B+

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Thursday, July 30, 2020

Paddington - 2014

Very Good: B-

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Wednesday, July 29, 2020

Elle - 2016

Very Good: B-

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Friday, July 24, 2020

Day for Night - 1973

Very Good: B

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Wednesday, July 22, 2020

The Red Shoes - 1948

Very Good: B

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Tuesday, July 21, 2020

Capernaum - 2018

Great: A-

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Sunday, July 19, 2020

The Sweet Hereafter - 1997

Very Good: B

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Wednesday, July 15, 2020

Carol - 2015

Very Good: B-

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Monday, July 6, 2020

Like Father, Like Son - 2013

Great: B+

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The true, vital mark of great cinema is the mastery of time, place, and tone throughout a work.

Cinema, as a medium of the visual, and by that virtue one of the most lasting art forms on the partaker, must be assessed fundamentally on its aptitude to document the scenery of life experience with power.

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