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Blindspotting Directed by Carlos López EstradaWritten by Rafael Casal, Daveed Diggs The review: Friendship is at the heart of this film; a friendship that makes two people better and worse.* [...]

The Lovebirds Directed by: Michael Showalter Written by: Aaron Abram, Brendan Gall The review: The Lovebirds pairs Issa Rae and Kumail Nanjiani in a hilarious movie that pushes all the comedic [...]

Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight features and masterful performance by Heath Ledger and is a nihilistic movie I despise.* While every actor involved is excellent** I do not think that plot [...]

The review: Christopher Nolan’s 2002 remake of 1997’s Insomnia (also called Insomnia) is a slow thriller* where the point is not really who done it,** but how this is all going to play [...]

The review: In Monster, Patty Jenkins directs Charlize Theron to an Oscar-winning performance, but also provides a nuanced portrait of a serial killer. Aside from Theron’s full command of the [...]

The review: Christopher Nolan’s Following is embryonic Nolan,* and is a good showcase of what we put up with in the 90s when it came to independent films.** I always enjoy a shifting [...]

The review: Liz Garbus’s Lost Girls provides a good vehicle for Amy Ryan to be steely,* Thomasin McKenzie to do some accent work, and Lola Kirke to be sparkly.** This is one of those films [...]

The review: Melina Matsoukas’s debut feature* Queen & Slim gives us a zeitgeist film that has (unfortunately) flown under most people’s radar. Daniel Kaluuya (Slim) and Jodie [...]