It’s surprisingly entertaining in its failings, and makes for a great date movie if your idea of a date movie involves frequently looking in utter disbelief towards your date for a shared moment of, “Wait, that really just happened?”
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Rock Bottom Riser
The film is a powerful exposé about how science is a tool of colonization, desecrating sacred lands, and marginalizing native Hawaiians.
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‘If we burn out, who’s here for the kids?’
The problems with public schools seem like a broken record, but leave it to the NBC hit show Abbott Elementary, perhaps premiering at the right time . . . to make people think critically about the state of education in America’s major cities.
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The Outfit
The film is a bit smart for its own good, twisting for the sake of twists and leaning too heavily on the use of exposition and flashbacks to reveal surprising information.
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The banal, the brutal, and the beautiful
Expanding creatively when society was intentionally isolating itself marks a bold progression for the artists, whose work is widely regarded for its taut intimacy.
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The Outfit is a layer in Chicago’s storied past
“I think the Chicago gangland history is something [that] falls like the snow in Chicago.”
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After Yang
Director Kogonada’s sophomore film explores a subtly futuristic world where artificial intelligence is commonplace.
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The Batman
Robert Pattinson shuts all his haters up with a vulnerable and terrifying performance in Matt Reeves’s The Batman.
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A quarter century of EU films
If a viewer can’t find something to catch their eye in this lineup, they’re not looking very hard.
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Rewriting the rules of journalism (with fire)
“They have found their way to work within a system that’s designed to exclude them.”
