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All posts by Mallory Andrews
Now Playing: “Nina Forever”, “Where to Invade Next”, and “Standoff”
Mallory Andrews reviews a trio of this week's new films.
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This Week’s Cinema: On Noam Chomsky and Yitzhak Rabin
This week, Mallory Andrews reviews "Requiem for the American Dream" and "Rabin, the Last Day."
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This Week’s Cinema: “Moonwalkers” and “Band of Robbers”
Mallory Andrews reviews two of 2016's first films.
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“Don Verdean” May Only Appeal to Hardcore Jared Hess Fans
Early last month, a YouTube video featuring Pastor Kevin Swanson as he delivered a speech before the National Religious Liberties Conference became viral. An animated Swanson answers the question of what he would do were he to be invited to his (hypothetically...
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“Love” Is Basically “Annie Hall” With Money Shots
Some time ago, I lived next door to a couple who, by all accounts, were terrible for each other. I’d lie awake at night, listening through the paper-thin walls to their galvanic arguments, usually set off by some ludicrous imagined slight conjured up in a fit ...
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Show Your Work: On “Experimenter”
“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.” - Søren Kierkegaard
Undoubtedly, Kierkegaard had loftier goals in mind when he penned this observation, but it does neatly underscore a problem inherent to the biographical film. That whi...
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The Single-Take “Victoria” Is A Singular Achievement
It’s a sorry state of affairs when a foreign film’s best recourse to cut through the cacophonous blare of new releases in a given week is to highlight its central gimmick, as Victoria’s tagline boasts: “One girl. One city. One night. One take.” The single take...
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“Blind” Is A Sharp, Pleasant Surprise
On paper, the premise of Blind is unassailably bleak: the recently blind Ingrid (Ellen Dorrit Petersen), having permanently lost her vision to an incurable genetic disease, confines herself to her apartment while her husband frets over her physical and psychol...
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“People Places Things” Is Unmemorable, Uninteresting, and Unamusing
For how unmemorable and uninteresting it is, writer/director James Strouse’s People Places Things may well have been called “Noun.” Having premiered at Sundance with little fanfare, likely amid a cacophony of similarly sickly twee dramedies, Strouse’s story of...
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“Do I Sound Gay?”
It’s certainly been an incredible week for LGBT rights in the United States. With the June 26th ruling of Obergefell v. Hodges, the Supreme Court declared that it was a nationwide constitutional right for same-sex couples to be allowed to legally marry. In the...
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