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The Burnt Orange Heresy
Meanings are open to interpretation and truths are all too easily manipulated, especially by the more powerful among us with malign intentions. Do the powerful own a monopoly on truth? The optimists out there may be vexed with director Giuseppe Capotondi’s answer to that question.
Action/Drama/Thriller - 98 Minutes
Meanings are open to interpretation and truths are all too easily manipulated, especially by the more powerful among us with malign intentions. Do the powerful own a monopoly on truth? The optimists out there may be vexed with director Giuseppe Capotondi’s answer to that question.
Action/Drama/Thriller - 98 Minutes
Radioactive
Director Marjane Satrapi asks why male scientists are allowed to be troubled and awkward while female intellectuals are denied the same courtesy. This Marie Curie biopic sidesteps many of the genre's tropes, yet still feels stunted and plodding.
Biography/Drama/Romance - 109 Minutes
Director Marjane Satrapi asks why male scientists are allowed to be troubled and awkward while female intellectuals are denied the same courtesy. This Marie Curie biopic sidesteps many of the genre's tropes, yet still feels stunted and plodding.
Biography/Drama/Romance - 109 Minutes
Yes, God, Yes
A typical teenage coming-of-age tale where an impressionable, young woman experiences a stuttering sexual awakening. The twist is the awakening occurs smack in the middle of Jesus camp. What if the burning in your nether regions leads you to burn for eternity in that lake of fire everyone's talking about?
Drama - 78 min
A typical teenage coming-of-age tale where an impressionable, young woman experiences a stuttering sexual awakening. The twist is the awakening occurs smack in the middle of Jesus camp. What if the burning in your nether regions leads you to burn for eternity in that lake of fire everyone's talking about?
Drama - 78 min
We Are Little Zombies
Director Makoto Nagahisa wants the audience to feel they are watching a video game as much as they are a feature film with his debut. While innovative and even out of the world at times, the package is not necessarily revolutionary in the greater context of experimental filmmaking.
Drama/Music - 120 Minutes
Director Makoto Nagahisa wants the audience to feel they are watching a video game as much as they are a feature film with his debut. While innovative and even out of the world at times, the package is not necessarily revolutionary in the greater context of experimental filmmaking.
Drama/Music - 120 Minutes
The Old Guard
The Old Guard takes the long arc of human history and makes it pedestrian - what good are millennia of experiences and adventure when you can focus on corporate greed and Big Pharma profits?
Action/Fantasy - 118 Minutes
The Old Guard takes the long arc of human history and makes it pedestrian - what good are millennia of experiences and adventure when you can focus on corporate greed and Big Pharma profits?
Action/Fantasy - 118 Minutes
The Outpost
The Outpost feels like a war movie classic while simultaneously employing innovative ideas. The visceral performances are unique and combined with the absurdity of COP Keating’s situation, it will leave you with a lasting impression.
Drama/History/War - 123 Minutes
The Outpost feels like a war movie classic while simultaneously employing innovative ideas. The visceral performances are unique and combined with the absurdity of COP Keating’s situation, it will leave you with a lasting impression.
Drama/History/War - 123 Minutes
John Lewis: Good Trouble
The arc of John Lewis's fight for equality and justice is long and shows no signs of slowing down. Director Dawn Porter shows the methods may have changed from the '60s, but the results are the same - some enjoy rights callously denied to others.
Documentary - 96 Minutes
The arc of John Lewis's fight for equality and justice is long and shows no signs of slowing down. Director Dawn Porter shows the methods may have changed from the '60s, but the results are the same - some enjoy rights callously denied to others.
Documentary - 96 Minutes
My Spy
Fires and misses to be this generation's Kindergarten Cop. My Spy will neither torture parents nor become their kid’s new favorite movie, but it will distract everyone long enough to not make it seem like a waste of time.
Action/Comedy/Family - 99 Minutes
Fires and misses to be this generation's Kindergarten Cop. My Spy will neither torture parents nor become their kid’s new favorite movie, but it will distract everyone long enough to not make it seem like a waste of time.
Action/Comedy/Family - 99 Minutes
2020 AFI Docs Wrap-Up
A virtual film festival passes the test and proves it is possible to extend an annual tradition into your living room.
A virtual film festival passes the test and proves it is possible to extend an annual tradition into your living room.
Irresistible
Jon Stewart wraps a critique of America’s divisive and money-saturated electoral system inside a political comedy...but he forgot the comedy.
Comedy/Drama - 101 Minutes
Jon Stewart wraps a critique of America’s divisive and money-saturated electoral system inside a political comedy...but he forgot the comedy.
Comedy/Drama - 101 Minutes
Da 5 Bloods
Four vets in their 60s return to the setting which defined the rest of their lives not only to dig up long buried gold, but to dig up ghosts. There is action and drama aplenty, but Spike Lee isn’t here to just entertain us; he never is, he’s here to educate us. We’re on a guided tour of how the black man is the foundation of the United States of America, yet has only received scorn and torment in return.
Drama/War - 156 min
Four vets in their 60s return to the setting which defined the rest of their lives not only to dig up long buried gold, but to dig up ghosts. There is action and drama aplenty, but Spike Lee isn’t here to just entertain us; he never is, he’s here to educate us. We’re on a guided tour of how the black man is the foundation of the United States of America, yet has only received scorn and torment in return.
Drama/War - 156 min
The High Note
Of course there should be more films centered on strong, independent female voices which propel the points of view of both women of a certain age and women of color. But even though The High Note checks all of those boxes at the same time, that does not mean it’s any good.
Drama/Music/Romance - 113 min
Of course there should be more films centered on strong, independent female voices which propel the points of view of both women of a certain age and women of color. But even though The High Note checks all of those boxes at the same time, that does not mean it’s any good.
Drama/Music/Romance - 113 min
The Vast of Night
Expertly weaves together amateur sleuth characters, late ‘50s production design, camera movements to emphasize place and storytelling, and stirs it up in a Twilight Zone pot. Andrew Patterson creates a masterpiece of suspense and wonder.
Fantasy/Mystery/Sci-Fi - 89 Minutes
Expertly weaves together amateur sleuth characters, late ‘50s production design, camera movements to emphasize place and storytelling, and stirs it up in a Twilight Zone pot. Andrew Patterson creates a masterpiece of suspense and wonder.
Fantasy/Mystery/Sci-Fi - 89 Minutes
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