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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
The Trip to Greece
The schtick and tête-à-tête between the pair as they poke at one another is the exact same routine they pulled off nearly 10 years ago, only the balcony views have changed. Winterbottom and company are coasting, but the humor remains top shelf.
Comedy/Drama - 103 Minutes
The schtick and tête-à-tête between the pair as they poke at one another is the exact same routine they pulled off nearly 10 years ago, only the balcony views have changed. Winterbottom and company are coasting, but the humor remains top shelf.
Comedy/Drama - 103 Minutes
Lucky Grandma
Presenting itself as oddball and left field, Lucky Grandma is not as wry as it thinks it is. Boilerplate plot and the laborious way it unfolds offsets the authentic Chinatown setting leaving the audience with only indifference by the end.
Comedy/Drama - 87 Minutes
Presenting itself as oddball and left field, Lucky Grandma is not as wry as it thinks it is. Boilerplate plot and the laborious way it unfolds offsets the authentic Chinatown setting leaving the audience with only indifference by the end.
Comedy/Drama - 87 Minutes
How to Build a Girl
If How to Build a Girl feels a bit too familiar to American audiences, it is because we saw Beanie Feldstein in Olivia Wilde’s Booksmart first, a film also about a precocious, yet socially alienated, teenager who could convince you she was either 15 or 35. Most interesting when it depicts a young girl simultaneously discovering rock and roll and her narrative voice, but the inevitable conscience crises and identity issues are more stock than revelatory.
Comedy - 102 min
If How to Build a Girl feels a bit too familiar to American audiences, it is because we saw Beanie Feldstein in Olivia Wilde’s Booksmart first, a film also about a precocious, yet socially alienated, teenager who could convince you she was either 15 or 35. Most interesting when it depicts a young girl simultaneously discovering rock and roll and her narrative voice, but the inevitable conscience crises and identity issues are more stock than revelatory.
Comedy - 102 min
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