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Captain America: Brave New World
Julius Onah throws The Winter Soldier into the microwave a decade later, and expects us to applaud.
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Bring Them Down
"Y'know what they say. Where there's livestock, there's dead stock."
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Heart Eyes
"You can be so Clueless sometimes. It's one of the 10 Things I Hate About You, honestly. You can't let him go to his Best Friend's Wedding and hook up with a bunch of Bridesmaids and move to Notting Hill."
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Love Me
The core theme of Love Me destined it to be labeled a pandemic-era movie. While Americans had already been experiencing epidemic levels of loneliness in the late 2010s, the outbreak of COVID-19 and subsequent lockdowns highlighted what was already there while deepening that isolation. We were drowning in a preponderance
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Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat
"In the newly independent Congo, the role of the Congolese army will remain the same role it always played since 1886 when Leopold II created this army."
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Grand Theft Hamlet
Transforming an actor's worst fear from "forgetting my lines" to "getting blown up by a stranger dressed as a cowboy stripper".
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Presence
It should surprise no one that Soderbergh's ghost story is far more concerned with its creative conceit than being scary. And that's a good thing.
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Hard Truths
"Why can’t you enjoy life?" "I don’t know!...Haunted. Haunted. It’s not fair."
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Sing Sing
"We don’t say that in here. We use 'beloved'."
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September 5
"It's not about politics, it's about emotion."
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The Last Showgirl
Gia Coppola's take on "The Wrestler"
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Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World
"Our emphasis is on the fact that we want our workers to respect the procedures..."