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9/10
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The Rescue
(2021)
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Ron Wilkinson
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The rescue of the millennium. Houdini never did it better.
Posted Nov 20, 2021
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8/10
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The French Dispatch
(2021)
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Ron Wilkinson
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If the directors past films employ artistic license this one is beyond the pale into fantasy.
Posted Nov 20, 2021
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8/10
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El Planeta
(2021)
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Ron Wilkinson
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A slow burn into existential questions of social status, truth, lies and the power of the human spirit.
Posted Nov 20, 2021
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7/10
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Ascension
(2021)
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Ron Wilkinson
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A vibrant mix of color, action and hubris with a guilty and anxious lining.
Posted Nov 20, 2021
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9/10
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Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
(2021)
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Ron Wilkinson
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Less nostalgia than expected and a powerhouse of great music and great thoughts line a cloud of missed opportunities and equality half obtained.
Posted Nov 20, 2021
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7/10
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Grandpa Was an Emperor
(2021)
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Ron Wilkinson
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An intimate look at the final days of an Ethiopian Camelot gone terribly wrong.
Posted Nov 20, 2021
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8/10
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My Donkey, My Lover & I
(2020)
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Ron Wilkinson
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Attaining more chemistry with the donkey than the lover on the French Appalachian Trail.
Posted Oct 05, 2021
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8/10
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Dogs
(2016)
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Ron Wilkinson
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A modern Western in the best tradition that pits change against tradition and men against dogs.
Posted Oct 05, 2021
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6/10
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Small Engine Repair
(2021)
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Ron Wilkinson
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A great setting and a powerful message are submerged in facial hair and mumbled lines.
Posted Oct 05, 2021
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7/10
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Wife of a Spy
(2020)
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Ron Wilkinson
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Slow compared to an American pot-boiler, this story has enough soul for any two of the usual spy movies.
Posted Oct 05, 2021
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7/10
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No Time to Die
(2021)
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Ron Wilkinson
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The franchise pulls out the stops in giving Bond a soul and prepping the field for the next generation of spy stars.
Posted Oct 05, 2021
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7/10
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Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy
(2021)
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Ron Wilkinson
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Themes of betrayal, sex and power are shifted amongst a sea of half remembered events and faces that reassure even as they confuse.
Posted Oct 05, 2021
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7/10
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The Village Detective: A Song Cycle
(2021)
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Ron Wilkinson
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Mummified by the sea and the volcanos, a zombie of a movie that refuses to die.
Posted Oct 05, 2021
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9/10
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Dachra
(2018)
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Ron Wilkinson
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College journalism adopts a meat diet when three students turn a village into a sound stage and become the buffet.
Posted Aug 20, 2021
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9/10
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Eyimofe (This is My Desire)
(2020)
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Ron Wilkinson
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Documentary clarity in a story of dreams, identity and family almost too real to be fiction.
Posted Aug 20, 2021
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9/10
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Leaving Afghanistan
(2019)
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Ron Wilkinson
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In one of the best war movies made, the dust, dirt, chaos and betrayal fly from the screen.
Posted Aug 20, 2021
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7/10
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Wildland
(2020)
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Ron Wilkinson
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Too much left to the viewer hamstrings a cold silent thriller brimming with potential.
Posted Aug 20, 2021
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9/10
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In the Same Breath
(2021)
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Ron Wilkinson
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A brutal look at Wuhan's Covid outbreak morphs into a dialectical exploration of America's in a war that has no winners.
Posted Aug 20, 2021
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8/10
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Sun Children
(2020)
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Ron Wilkinson
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As gritty and up close as any street drama with a twisty ending second to none.
Posted Jun 29, 2021
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8/10
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The Amusement Park
(1975)
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Ron Wilkinson
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A priceless horror film hidden for years becomes a priceless restoration.
Posted Jun 29, 2021
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7/10
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Lansky
(2021)
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Ron Wilkinson
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A modest and entertaining rewriting of gangster history told by characters as old as the formula.
Posted Jun 29, 2021
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8/10
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Profile
(2018)
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Ron Wilkinson
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An exploration of social networking truth and fantasy as a cat and mouse game with lethal stakes.
Posted Jun 08, 2021
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7/10
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The Mauritanian
(2021)
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Ron Wilkinson
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An entirely new level of revenge born of the attacks on the World Trade Center.
Posted Jun 08, 2021
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8/10
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High Ground
(2020)
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Ron Wilkinson
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It is the colonists against the people and the land in this lusciously shot thriller.
Posted Jun 08, 2021
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8/10
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Never Gonna Snow Again
(2020)
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Ron Wilkinson
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A lighthearted cautionary tale about appreciating what has been given to us.
Posted Jun 08, 2021
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9/10
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The Dry
(2021)
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Ron Wilkinson
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A dramatic and enthralling small town whodunnit with twists all the way down.
Posted Jun 08, 2021
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8/10
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The Man Who Sold His Skin
(2020)
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Ron Wilkinson
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A departure from a reality that is, itself, a departure from reality
Posted May 01, 2021
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8/10
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My Wonderful Wanda
(2020)
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Ron Wilkinson
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A delightful skewering of pretense that bounces from scary to scattered through perfectly executed twists of love, hate and lust.
Posted May 01, 2021
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5/10
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Voyagers
(2021)
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Ron Wilkinson
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Aliens attacking a multi light year survival mission turn out to be the crew itself.
Posted May 01, 2021
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5/10
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Every Breath You Take
(2021)
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Ron Wilkinson
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A possible success of a movie that is submarined by a cheap shot at horror.
Posted May 01, 2021
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8/10
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The Virtuoso
(2021)
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Ron Wilkinson
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Enjoy the noir and put the rest aside.
Posted May 01, 2021
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7/10
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City of Lies
(2018)
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Ron Wilkinson
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The lesson is solid even as the huge production fails to generate the chemistry promised by its cast and crew.
Posted Apr 06, 2021
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8/10
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Nina Wu
(2019)
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Ron Wilkinson
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Echoing the me-too movement on a grand scale this story examines how fans kill their idols.
Posted Apr 06, 2021
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7/10
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The Courier
(2020)
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Ron Wilkinson
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A parade of lethal errors and a success story of defusing the Cuban missile crisis told with first rate production beginning to end.
Posted Apr 06, 2021
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7/10
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The Vault
(2021)
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Ron Wilkinson
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Nice editing mixes the hysteria of World Cup finals with sweaty vault raiding in this safe and sane procedural.
Posted Apr 06, 2021
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8/10
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Rouge
(2020)
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Ron Wilkinson
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Brings home the sometimes illusive dangers of environmental degradation by showing victims and their families in revolt.
Posted Apr 06, 2021
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8/10
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Slalom
(2020)
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Ron Wilkinson
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Presents the news headlines of scandalous abuse in elite competitive sports in a deeply personal perspective.
Posted Mar 12, 2021
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7/10
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My Darling Supermarket
(2019)
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Ron Wilkinson
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The inner life of retail food sales is teased out with beautiful clarity.
Posted Mar 12, 2021
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8/10
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MAFIA INC
(2019)
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Ron Wilkinson
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Let me show you how we do it in Canada.
Posted Mar 12, 2021
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5/10
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Wrong Turn
(2021)
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Ron Wilkinson
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Campers in trouble Part 86 gives way to a curiously current portrait of a country divided and a loving father surprisingly good with an ax.
Posted Mar 12, 2021
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9/10
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The White Tiger
(2021)
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Ron Wilkinson
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A hundred castes and a thousand Gods boil down to two paths, the full belly and the empty one. How many have the courage to make the choice?
Posted Mar 12, 2021
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5/10
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Dead Air
(2021)
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Ron Wilkinson
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An ancient short wave radio becomes the movie, with mixed results.
Posted Mar 12, 2021
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8/10
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M.C. Escher: Journey to Infinity
(2018)
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Ron Wilkinson
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A mellow journey of logical ponderings made amazing by the subject's illogical pretzel art.
Posted Mar 12, 2021
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8/10
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Atlantis
(2019)
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Ron Wilkinson
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An artillery shell of an antiwar movie and a vibrant cautionary tale about the military-industrial complex born anew.
Posted Feb 08, 2021
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8/10
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Acasa, My Home
(2020)
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Ron Wilkinson
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Strong camera work follows a family from paradise to the promise, as yet unfulfilled, of urban upward mobility.
Posted Feb 08, 2021
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7/10
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Wander
(2020)
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Ron Wilkinson
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A mystery thriller of slim proportions relying too much on high production.
Posted Feb 08, 2021
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8/10
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Identifying Features
(2020)
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Ron Wilkinson
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Acting and locations so real it looks like a documentary, then dissolving into horror in a crashing ending worthy of any classic tragedy.
Posted Feb 08, 2021
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7/10
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The Night
(2020)
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Ron Wilkinson
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A synchronous collection of horror tropes keeps up the pressure from beginning to end.
Posted Feb 08, 2021
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8/10
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Night of the Kings
(2020)
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Ron Wilkinson
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When Africa does surrealism one is in for a treat.
Posted Feb 08, 2021
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8/10
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Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
(2020)
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Ron Wilkinson
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Doubling down on the original Borat, a mysterious co-star makes this a must see for Cohen lovers.
Posted Nov 30, 2020
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