Showing posts with label ava duvernay. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ava duvernay. Show all posts
Tuesday, February 27, 2024

The Forgotten Movies of This Oscar Season

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Every year, a collection of really good movies miss out on being nominated for Academy Awards. As a result, you never hear about them during...
Tuesday, July 05, 2022

The Best Films About America

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Rolling Stone put together a list of movies that have encapsulated America over the last 50 years. I didn't have a say in the rankings,...
Tuesday, April 30, 2019

Some Thoughts on 'Avengers: Endgame'

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I like Avengers: Endgame , but I don't like how it deals with death. Or, rather, how it doesn't deal with death. I wrote about t...
Tuesday, March 13, 2018

Some Thoughts on 'A Wrinkle in Time'

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A Wrinkle in Time has been knocked around by critics. I stood up for it over at MEL , explaining where it fits into cinema's proud t...

The Grierson & Leitch Podcast: 'The Boondock Saints' Is Terrible

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On this week's episode, we review A Wrinkle in Time , Gringo and The Death of Stalin . (I promise to catch up with Thoroughbreds so...
Wednesday, March 07, 2018

'A Wrinkle in Time' Review

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Somehow, I got through my childhood never reading Madeleine L’Engle's award-winning book. Despite that (or maybe because of that ), I...
Tuesday, December 16, 2014

'Selma' Review

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For Deadspin , I reviewed Selma , which recounts Martin Luther King, Jr.'s 1965 attempt to organize a peaceful march from Selma to Bi...
Thursday, October 11, 2012

Back Stage: A Very Good Movie Weekend, Including 'Middle of Nowhere'

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This week's Back Stage column is full of choice offerings, and I'm not just saying that because four of the six films I reviewed...