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Reviews

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  Licorice Pizza 2021

  

  Ryan Swen ★★★★

  “That recurring use of hucksters ascends to the level of text with Licorice Pizza, which returns to the sunny San Fernando Valley setting from the first half of his career.…

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  Cry Macho 2021

  

  Glenn Heath Jr. ★★★★

  If this is goodbye, then it's a great way to go out.

  thefilmstage.com/cry-macho-review-clint-eastwood-finds-new-majesty-in-the-western/

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  Freddy Got Fingered 2001

  

  matthew danger lippman 2

  I got to interview my hero Tom Green about his masterpiece, which turns 20 today, for the Film Stage. We went in deep.

  “I’m glad I was born when I was.…

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  Mank 2020

  

  Nick Newman

  "Mank is, markedly, the least-enjoyable film Fincher's ever directed, defined by its distended lack of accumulation, friction, traction, or revelation. The exposition-mountain screenplay leaves little to feel just as a…

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  Her Socialist Smile 2020

  

  Mark Asch ★★★½

  "You may have known that Helen Keller was a comrade, a life-long socialist and member of the Industrial Workers of the World; in Her Socialist Smile, John Gianvito assembles Keller’s…

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  My Mexican Bretzel 2019

  

  Mark Asch ★★★

  "Assembled from a single couple’s trove of home movies—50 reels, nearly 30 hours, of 16mm footage captured at home and on vacation from the 1940s to the 1960s—My Mexican Bretzel…

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  Beginning 2020

  

  hero ★★★★

  Dea Kulumbegashvili knocks it out of the park with her directorial debut.
  The actress who plays Yana (Ia Sukhitashvili) is incredible. The film follows Yana, trying to find purpose in…

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  Beginning 2020

  

  Leesah Sea ★★★★

  It’s hard to imagine that BEGINNING is the first feature film for director Dea Kulumbegshvili. Her work feels so accomplished here. The stillness of the camera as we see what’s…