Film Reviews

Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul. originally premiered as a short film at the Atlanta Film Festival. The success of the short film, which also showed at several other film festivals, prompted a feature length film starring Regina Hall and Sterling K. Brown. Not a bad cast for director (and Atlanta native) Adamma Ebo’s first…
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Director Luca Guadagnino has reunited with actor Timothée Chalamet for his latest film, Bones and All. The two last collaborated on the Oscar winning film, Call Me By Your Name (2017). Since that film, Guadagnino has dabbled in absurdist horror with his remake of Suspiria (2018) and a documentary about Salvatore Ferragamo who is well…
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If you haven’t heard of Nan Goldin before, then All the Beauty and the Bloodshed will not be as interesting or as affecting. If you’ve been privileged enough to learn about her or see her photography at an exhibit in person, then this documentary will be of particular interest. It’s no surprise that a good…
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Saint Omer is a two hour and two minute courtroom drama. But if you’re expecting a heated and rapid paced drama like Argentina, 1985 or The Trial of the Chicago 7 you’ll be disappointed. This is an incredibly slow moving movie. Rama (Kayije Kagame) is a writer and professor who is working on a book…
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Close comes from writer and director Lukas Dhont who made a splash with his feature film debut Girl (2018). Dhont follows this up with a compelling story about two thirteen-year-old boys’ friendship. The beginning of the movie shows the boys playing make believe together. They have wild imaginations and carry sticks for swords as they…
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Women Talking is based on a 2018 novel of the same name written by Miriam Toew. The novel documents the true story of a Mennonite community in Bolivia. While watching the movie it’s hard to imagine the events could have happened in real life. But then again, it really isn’t–especially if you’re a woman. The…
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James Cameron finally got around to making the sequel to Avatar (2009) and he didn’t cheat us with a three hour and 12 minute runtime for Avatar: The Way of Water. The story picks up a few years after where we left off on Pandora. Jake (Sam Worthington) and Neytiri (Zoe Saldana) have two sons…
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In The Banshees of Inisherin, Padraic (Colin Farrell) and Colm (Brendan Gleeson) are best friends living on an island off the coast of Ireland in the early 1900’s. One day Colm announces he no longer wants to be friends with Padraic and can’t give any good reason for ending their friendship. Padraic is baffled by…
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Writer and director Damien Chazelle has had a string of hits with Whiplash (2014), La La Land (2016), and First Man (2018). He adds another to his roster with his latest feature film Babylon. For this film, Chazelle returns to his deep love of movies and Hollywood, exploring the silent movie era and the advent…
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The 80th annual Golden Globes aired on January 10th. Comedian Jerrod Carmichael hosted the ceremony and opened with a scathing monologue. It wasn’t exactly a triumphant return for the Globes but it was a return nonetheless. In case you’ve forgotten about the controversy that the HFPA has been weathering for the last few years, you…
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