2020 Venice Film Festival Awards: Nomadland, with Frances McDormand, wins Golden Lion. If recent history is any indication, Chloé Zhao’s low-budget socio-psychological road movie is about to become a North…
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Arthur Miller movies include adaptations of All My Sons, Death of a Salesman, The Crucible, and A View from the Bridge. One of the most influential 20th-century American playwrights, Miller…
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Detroit movie street riot scene: The Hurt Locker and Zero Dark Thirty director Kathryn Bigelow tackles the 1967 Detroit riots in “horribly real” and “deeply self-serving” 2017 release marketed as…
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Women’s suffrage movie Mothers of Men: Dorothy Davenport becomes a judge and later State Governor in socially conscious thriller about U.S. women’s voting rights. Are females too emotional to be…
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Money Monster with George Clooney and Jack O’Connell: TV celebrity and unwise investor/hostage-taker in Jodie Foster-directed socially conscious drama that is severely handicapped by a mix of pretentiousness and cowardice.…
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‘Chi-Raq’ movie with Teyonah Parris: Spike Lee has set ‘Lysistrata’ amidst Chicago’s urban warfare. Chiraq (one word) stands for the Chicago-Iraq combo. ‘Chi-Raq’ movie review: Ancient Greek comedy in 21st-century…
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Euthanasia drama The Sea Inside with Javier Bardem. In Alejandro Amenábar’s euthanasia drama, Javier Bardem plays a tetraplegic Spaniard fighting for the right to end his life in a country…
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‘Teacher of the Year’ movie features Keegan-Michael Key. ‘Teacher of the Year’ movie: Smart and funny socially conscious comedy Teacher of the Year manages to pull off one of the…
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Yesterday movie: South African AIDS drama features Leleti Khumalo and Lihle Mvelase. ‘Yesterday’ movie: Fantastic central performance in South African AIDS drama To date, nowhere has the AIDS pandemic been…
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The Insider movie: Al Pacino and Russell Crowe in Michael Mann’s corporate greed drama. ‘The Insider’ movie review: CBS News exposé barks but doesn’t bite Michael Mann’s 1999 movie The…
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A Hatful of Rain with Don Murray and Eva Marie Saint. ‘A Hatful of Rain’ movie script fails to find cinematic voice as most of the cast hams it up…
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Hold Back the Dawn: Olivia de Havilland with co-stars Charles Boyer and Paulette Goddard. Hold Back the Dawn 1941 movie: Olivia de Havilland steals show as small-town teacher in love…