James Wan’s AQUAMAN is an inventively fun action film that brings the oft-mocked superhero to life by leaning into the inherent silliness of the character and his comic-book history.
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Joel Edgerton’s BOY ERASED is an “important issues” film that plays to the cheap seats and fails to find anything new to say.
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This intensely frustrating misanthropic soul-fucker from Yorgos Lanthimos is difficult to talk about from an abstract critical vantage so I’m calling this a thinkpiece and spoiling the film. I have to reckon with its story right down to its dizzying (ed note: that’s a joke) climax. I recommend reading on after seeing the film. The
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Lion is the story of Saroo Brierley, an Indian child who gets lost a thousand miles from home. 20 years after being adopted by an Australian family, he attempts to locate his birth mother through the vague memories of his past.
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