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Cynthia Fuchs

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The Party (2017) 82% EDIT “What The Party does best is to expose your own efforts to interpret, to know, to be aware of what's at stake.” – AWFJ.org Nov 30, 2021 Full Review That's Not Me (2017) 90% EDIT “Credit to Foulcher and Erdstein for making Polly's journey one that, despite moments of darkness and despair, ultimately finds hope in new possibilities...” – AWFJ.org Nov 4, 2021 Full Review Molly's Game (2017) 82% EDIT “All the overt gender politics makes Molly's Game seem like a timely film.” – AWFJ.org Nov 4, 2021 Full Review You Don't Know Jack (2010) 83% EDIT “He's not quite unknown, but he is a puzzle, one the film presents with a mix of fascination, bemusement, and occasional awe, but doesn't pretend to solve.” – PopMatters Aug 10, 2020 Full Review Broken Heart Land (2014) EDIT “The film's interviews with both Williams and Spaulding don't so much explain the abject falsity of this number, but they do suggest their confidence in their beliefs.” – PopMatters Jun 30, 2020 Full Review Be Like Others (2008) 100% EDIT “Disturbing and insightful, Be Like Others shows how such social, ethical, political, and legal absurdities shape lives.” – PopMatters May 18, 2020 Full Review 13 Going on 30 (2004) 65% EDIT “13 Going on 30 is best when it's adorable.” – PopMatters Mar 26, 2020 Full Review No Crossover: The Trial of Allen Iverson (2010) 89% 9/10 EDIT “The film embraces the complexity and difficulty of race and racism, their circuitous legacies of pain and ambition. It also remain open-ended, as it must be.” – PopMatters Feb 8, 2020 Full Review The Road to Fame (2013) 100% 8/10 EDIT “The Road to Fame again and again reveals the connections between past and present, between the two generations shaped by China's one child policy.” – PopMatters Mar 28, 2018 Full Review The Tribes of Palos Verdes (2017) 70% 6/10 EDIT “In another movie, their hard to articulate relationship might be compelling, enigmatic, appealing. Here, though, it's tragedy around the corner, at once too obvious and too elusive.” – PopMatters Dec 8, 2017 Full Review The Breadwinner (2017) 95% 7/10 EDIT “Parvana creates art and energy in the stories she tells Zaki, inspiring and distracting him as the movie takes on another set of possibilities, in community, history, and incredible beauty.” – PopMatters Nov 20, 2017 Full Review Mudbound (2017) 97% 8/10 EDIT “If the plot of Mudbound is familiar, its very repetition is devastating, especially in this moment in US history.” – PopMatters Nov 20, 2017 Full Review Detroit (2017) 82% 8/10 EDIT “This is no one's neighborhood. Detroit doesn't help anyone to feel at home, least of all viewers.” – PopMatters Aug 4, 2017 Full Review The Midwife (2017) 88% 5/10 EDIT “Béatrice serves as Claire's "magical" figure, her model for better "understanding", for a more fulfilled, less confined life, that role is in itself clichéd and constricting.” – PopMatters Jul 27, 2017 Full Review Dunkirk (2017) 92% 8/10 EDIT “The effects are less realistic than they are thrilling and entrancing, a set of sensory adventures alluding to World War II movie tropes... But the movie also turns these tropes inside out to articulate a broader theme.” – PopMatters Jul 27, 2017 Full Review Romeo Is Bleeding (2015) 8/10 EDIT “Romeo is Bleeding makes clear that life in Richmond is dire, that options are limited. However, life here also produces poetry.” – PopMatters Jul 24, 2017 Full Review A Ghost Story (2017) 91% 8/10 EDIT “Cinematographer Andrew Droz PalermoIt's camera immerses you in extended minutes of muted color and light, the space between objects in any given frame more resonant than any action.” – PopMatters Jul 14, 2017 Full Review The Beguiled (2017) 79% 6/10 EDIT “However much filmmakers try to sustain orders, movies become meaningful in their engagements with viewers, whose experiences can be messy and, as they live in various times and places, evolving.” – PopMatters Jul 6, 2017 Full Review Maudie (2016) 90% 7/10 EDIT “All this good work is a heavy load for Maud the movie character. Hawkins carries it with a graceful energy, helped by Maudie's visual approach, sometimes delicately impressionistic and sometimes more artisanal.” – PopMatters Jun 22, 2017 Full Review Megan Leavey (2017) 86% 6/10 EDIT “As its title indicates, Megan Leavey is not interested in the war as such. What it offers instead is the story of her journey, heartfelt and well acted, but never surprising.” – PopMatters Jun 9, 2017 Full Review Heal the Living (2016) 91% 6/10 EDIT “Such fragmentation of time offers little insight into the character named Simon.” – PopMatters Apr 20, 2017 Full Review Colossal (2016) 82% 8/10 EDIT “Gloria's evolution, made visible first in Hathaway's body choreography, part spastic and part aching, and then mapped onto the monster's gyrations, is a bracing sort of spectacle, thoughtful, funny, and not a little weird.” – PopMatters Apr 13, 2017 Full Review I Called Him Morgan (2016) 96% 9/10 EDIT “Layering experiences and impressions, music and image, Kasper Collin's remarkable film is less concerned with history than with effects, influences that stretch across time, ideas that shape art.” – PopMatters Mar 24, 2017 Full Review Personal Shopper (2016) 81% 9/10 EDIT “Personal Shopper features ghosts, murder, mysteries, and Maureen's iPhone, but for all these familiar story bits, it's a film that makes the most of, even expands, film as such.” – PopMatters Mar 17, 2017 Full Review Headshot (2016) 73% 8/10 EDIT “It's a clich to call these fights balletic or the camerawork athletic. But the combination of these movements -- of bodies and frames, in harmony and in evocative tension -- is mesmerizing.” – PopMatters Mar 16, 2017 Full Review
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