Everybody Knows – Disclosing Open Secrets
In Everybody Knows, director Asghar Farhadi leaves Iranian stresses behind (cf., A Separation, The Past, and The Salesman) for a more Eurocentric story.
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Month: November 2018
Blindspotting: Walk in His Shoes
We tend to judge what we don’t know, as complicated as another culture or as simple as the...
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Beautiful Boy: Everything
David Sheff (Steve Carell) dabbled in his share of drugs as a youth but seemingly grew out of that...
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Shoplifters – A Twisted Family Tale
Winner of the Palme d?Or at the Cannes Film Festival this year, Shoplifters is a part of Hirokazu Kore-eda?s examination of family?s place within society. This is a topic he has looked at from various angles in other films, notably Like Father, Like Son; Our Little Sister; Nobody Knows; and I Wish. (I recommend them all.)
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The Favourite – Machiavellian Comedy
?I?m on my side. Always.? It isn?t news that politics can be a cutthroat sport. But in the hands...
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