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Portrait of a Lady on Fire – A Love as Brief as a Flame

March 2, 2020 Audrey Bennett

If a painting could move, it would be Céline Sciamma’s heart-wrenching 2019 masterwork, Portrait of a Lady on Fire. A

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Drama Films 

Portrait of a Lady on Fire — All Lovers Feel They’re Inventing Something New

March 1, 2020March 13, 2020 Christee Henry

At the end of Portrait of a Lady on Fire, I caught myself mimicking the facial expressions of the final

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Drama Films Epic/Historical Films 

Portrait of a Lady on Fire – A Nearly Perfect Love Story

February 27, 2020February 27, 2020 Mike McClelland art, France, French, lesbian, Love story

The true quality of Céline Sciamma’s dazzling French romance Portrait of a Lady on Fire becomes clear long after the

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Knives Out, or Let the Past Die. Kill Harlan Thrombey If You Have To.

February 16, 2020February 16, 2020 Nicodemus Boggs

One of my favorite places on Earth is a warehouse in Chelsea in New York City. This warehouse is home

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Knives Out – The Game is Afoot

February 13, 2020 Patrick Najjar

Rian Johnson has done it again. Knives Out is a cunning, intelligent and hilarious whodunit lifted even higher into the

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Drama Films 

Weathering With You – Who cares if I never see the sun shine again?

February 9, 2020February 9, 2020 Christee Henry

You who is reading this: do you remember the world you live in? Do you remember the blue sky and

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Joker – The Tears of a Clown

February 7, 2020February 7, 2020 Drew Grier

Joker may end up as the defining movie of 2019. It is arguably the most grim, cynical blockbuster ever made.

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1917 – The Impossible Task of War

January 27, 2020January 27, 2020 Jennifer Denson british, war movie, wwI

1917 opens on a field of flowers, and you better inhale deeply because that’s as much of a breather as you’re

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Drama Films 

Little Women — Gerwig Polishes Her Talents in This Brilliant Adaptation

January 17, 2020January 17, 2020 Christee Henry

I get anxious from the hype that comes with any much-anticipated film’s release, and Greta Gerwig’s Little Women was no

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Drama Films Epic/Historical Films 

Little Women – The Victorian Era in a Modern Light

January 15, 2020 Audrey Bennett

Little Women breathed life into the women of the 19th century and changed the very concept of women in literature

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Portrait of a Lady on Fire – A Love as Brief as a Flame
Drama Films Epic/Historical Films 

Portrait of a Lady on Fire – A Love as Brief as a Flame

March 2, 2020 Audrey Bennett

If a painting could move, it would be Céline Sciamma’s heart-wrenching 2019 masterwork, Portrait of a Lady on Fire. A

Portrait of a Lady on Fire — All Lovers Feel They’re Inventing Something New
Drama Films 

Portrait of a Lady on Fire — All Lovers Feel They’re Inventing Something New

March 1, 2020March 13, 2020 Christee Henry
Portrait of a Lady on Fire – A Nearly Perfect Love Story
Drama Films Epic/Historical Films 

Portrait of a Lady on Fire – A Nearly Perfect Love Story

February 27, 2020February 27, 2020 Mike McClelland
Knives Out, or Let the Past Die. Kill Harlan Thrombey If You Have To.
Comedy Films Crime Films Drama Films 

Knives Out, or Let the Past Die. Kill Harlan Thrombey If You Have To.

February 16, 2020February 16, 2020 Nicodemus Boggs

Most Recent Reviews

  • Portrait of a Lady on Fire – A Love as Brief as a Flame March 2, 2020
  • Portrait of a Lady on Fire — All Lovers Feel They’re Inventing Something New March 1, 2020
  • Portrait of a Lady on Fire – A Nearly Perfect Love Story February 27, 2020
  • Knives Out, or Let the Past Die. Kill Harlan Thrombey If You Have To. February 16, 2020
  • Knives Out – The Game is Afoot February 13, 2020

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