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Film Review: “Streetlight Harmonies” Fills Our Ears with Overwhelming Musical Delights

March 30, 2020

Film Review: “Cuties” Offers a Complex Examination of Tween Agency

Cuties (“Mignonnes”) (Maïmouna Doucouré, 2020) 3 out of 4 stars. Its dispiriting (and misleading) American movie trailer aside, the new French film Cuties, from first-time feature director Maïmouna Doucouré, provides a fascinating, complex and disturbing portrait of tween girlhood. The film showcases the genuine unease and identity confusion generated by a society that simultaneously sexualizes […]

Film Review: CUTIES
September 13, 2020
In defense of Cuties, it is a cultural eye-opener. Stop trying to bully Netflix. No one is forcing >>
Film Review: AVA
August 31, 2020
Don’t miss these three great fight scenes: Colin Farrell and John Malkovich, Jessica Chastain and >>
Film Review: UNHINGED
August 29, 2020
Crowe embodies the left behind, discarded American male who spends one day free of laws and rules. >>
Book Review: Apropos Of Nothing
August 29, 2020
Woody Allen’s Apropos Of Nothing is very skillful and purposeful. Disarmingly forthright, >>