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Celine Song Poetically & Brilliantly Opens the Portal to Past Lives
Celine Songs' direction is gentle, yet straight forward pinging an arrow into the heart of anyone lucky enough to see this film crafted with her beautiful and brilliantly with writing…
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Julia Louis-Dreyfus Straddles Genres Beautifully in You Hurt My Feelings
You Hurt My Feelings is acerbic perfection with heart and realism that will make audiences walk away being just a little more considerate when considering an answer to a question…
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Still: Michael J. Fox Reveals Struggles, Triumphs and Optimism of a Icon
No matter what the future holds, one thing I have learned for sure, Michael J. Fox is a survivor and continues to be an inspiration despite the world swirling around…
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Teyana Taylor Shines as Impoverished Mom in A Thousand and One
A Thousand And One is an elegant ode to the terribly beautiful power of family as an anchor in an ever-changing world, making us into who we are in ways…
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Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields Examines a Misjudged and Misguided Life
Honest and incisive, Pretty Baby critiques a toxic culture that perpetuates misogyny and is complicit in the sexualization and objectification of young girls, while sharing how Brooke Shields discovered and…
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20 Days at Mariupol is an In Your Face Document of Ukraninan War
Wars don't start with explosions. They start with silence. No knows this better than the people of Ukraine. Their lives have been uprooted and blown apart the same way their…
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Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project is Revelatory and Necessary
What I loved most is her verbal homage to the Black woman and how we can deal with and endure almost anything thrown own way - it's part of our…
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The Eternal Memory Will Haunt Your Spirit and Educate Your Soul
Your heart will sing and shatter in a zillion pieces all at once, which a total testament to the filmmaker and her subjects. Witnessing the grief Augusto has for his…
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Algee Smith and Sierra Capri Scorch in Young. Wild. Free.
What Banks mostly succeeds in is crafting a film that doesn't waste time getting to the heart of the matter. From the first frame to the last, the suspenseful nature…
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All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt is a Cinematic Generational Journey of Sound
Restrained dialogue coupled with subtle and powerful performances from Sheila Atim, Moses Ingram and Zainab Jah, Jackson assists in employing the power of touch to communicate what evades spoken language.…
