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'All of Us Strangers': A Devastating Drama About Love and Loss
From the very beginning of All of Us Strangers, we are lulled into writer/director Andrew Haigh's familiar style, and the film seems like...

Saxon Whitehead
Dec 27, 20236 min read
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'Ferrari': An Austere, Well-Crafted Biopic
After a director suffers a box-office flop, they typically come back with something a bit more accessible to the masses in order to get...

Saxon Whitehead
Dec 26, 20235 min read
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'The Boys in the Boat': George Clooney's Feel-Good Sports Drama is a Definite Crowdpleaser
While watching The Boys in the Boat, I couldn't help but be struck with a thought regarding the career of the film's director, George...

Saxon Whitehead
Dec 25, 20236 min read
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'The Color Purple': A Beautiful, Heartfelt Musical Re-Telling of Alice Walker's Classic Novel
For some, the promise of a remake of The Color Purple billed as "A Bold New Take on the Beloved Classic" might pose a few questions. How...

Saxon Whitehead
Dec 22, 20236 min read
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'Poor Things': A Phenomenal, Life-Affirming Odyssey
In the history of cinema, many have tried to come up with an idea of what it means to be human. It's a bit of a difficult task as film...

Saxon Whitehead
Dec 21, 20237 min read
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'Wonka': A Charming, Sugary Sweet Delight
In the seemingly endless outpour of reboots, prequels, and sequels based on existing IP, there is the occasional film that both honors...

Saxon Whitehead
Dec 20, 20236 min read
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'American Fiction': Jeffrey Wright Gives a Career-Best Performance in Biting Satire
A lot has been said and written about proper representation of marginalized groups in media over the years. The concept itself has been a...

Saxon Whitehead
Dec 18, 20237 min read
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'Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget': A Charming, Family-Friendly Sequel
When a film gets a sequel decades after the original, it makes sense to approach it with a healthy dose of skepticism. In most cases,...

Saxon Whitehead
Dec 15, 20235 min read
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'The Boy and the Heron': An Astonishing Masterpiece from Hayao Miyazaki
In a year where we have been fortunate enough to get new films from some of the most legendary masters of cinema, there have been a...

Saxon Whitehead
Dec 12, 20235 min read
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'Dream Scenario': Nicolas Cage is Superb in Wonderfully Strange Satire
A film in which people randomly begin seeing Nicolas Cage in their dreams sounds like the type of project that someone might make up as a...

Saxon Whitehead
Dec 6, 20236 min read
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'The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes': A Thoroughly Exhilarating Prequel
Of all the YA series set in a dystopian world that became wildly popular in the 2010s, none have been anywhere near as successful as The...

Saxon Whitehead
Nov 30, 20237 min read
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'Next Goal Wins': A Huge Miss from Taika Waititi
There are few filmmakers who have had such a drastic fall from grace like Taika Waititi. He emerged as an exciting new indie filmmaker in...

Saxon Whitehead
Nov 29, 20236 min read
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'The Marvels': A Fun and Fast-Paced MCU Adventure
With every new entry that is added to the Marvel Cinematic Universe, I find myself becoming more and more disinterested with the...

Saxon Whitehead
Nov 28, 20235 min read
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'Saltburn': A Stylish Thriller That Lacks Substance
There are few filmmakers who have rose to prominence in the past few years who are as divisive as Emerald Fennell. Her debut feature,...

Saxon Whitehead
Nov 27, 20238 min read
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'Napoleon': A Visually Stunning, Occasionally Messy Historical Epic
Based on the trailers and other promotional materials, it certainly seemed like Napoleon aimed to be a old-fashioned historical epic, not...

Saxon Whitehead
Nov 24, 20236 min read
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'Thanksgiving': A Fun, Flawed Holiday Slasher
One of the more memorable aspects of Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez's 2007 double feature event Grindhouse is definitely the fake...

Saxon Whitehead
Nov 23, 20236 min read
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'Maestro': Bradley Cooper Soars as Actor and Director in Spectacular Biopic
Given how successful Bradley Cooper's directorial debut A Star is Born was, it's a little surprising that it has taken him five years to...

Saxon Whitehead
Nov 22, 20237 min read
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'Leo': Adam Sandler Charms in Uneven Animated Comedy
It doesn't matter how old I am or what the project is, I will always be curious about anything that Adam Sandler is in. Yes, a fair...

Saxon Whitehead
Nov 21, 20235 min read
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'Please Don't Destroy: The Treasure of Foggy Mountain': A Promising, Yet Scattershot Debut
Please Don't Destroy, the comedy trio who went from posting sketch videos on YouTube to becoming writers and making pre-recorded sketches...

Saxon Whitehead
Nov 20, 20237 min read
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'May December': A Bold Drama That's As Uncomfortable As It Is Brilliant
There is a scene close to halfway through Todd Haynes's latest film, May December, in which the characters played by Natalie Portman and...

Saxon Whitehead
Nov 17, 20237 min read
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