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Grímur Hákonarson's 'Rams'
Hard as horns, soft as fleece
Rams draws you in with its vast, cold landscapes and hooks you with a simple story of two old hearts thawing out.
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Sundance TV’s 'Hap and Leonard'
Politics and the buddy film
Hap and Leonard depends on the clichéd Hollywood notion that folks at the bottom of the economic ladder are all actually remarkably intelligent, witty, and, under the skin, brothers in capitalistic striving.
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3 minute read
Andrew Haigh's '45 Years'
45 years of marriage and a postscript of unanswered questions
45 Years is like a Rorschach inkblot onto which we can project many layers of meaning. We know that Geoff and Kate are stunned and puzzled, but much of what is going on inside each of them is left to our imagination.
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Inarritu's 'The Revenant'
We are all savages
The Revenant is an example of a microgenre, the Ghost Western, a film in which a tormented white, male protagonist must avenge himself so his ghost can rest.
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5 minute read
Fox TV's 'Lucifer'
Redeeming the ultimate bad boy
Lucifer is showing promise of something more sophisticated than a simple good vs. evil story set in a flashy fantasy environment. We are seeing a story unfold that questions the very nature of good and evil, and the proper place of both in today’s world.
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3 minute read
'Vinyl' on HBO
Deep tracks
Vinyl is Scorsese at his most Scorsese. Unfortunately, the master offers little that we haven’t seen before.
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5 minute read
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FX's 'The People v. O.J. Simpson'
Revisiting the O.J. case
O.J. Simpson was not treated like any other defendant arrested for a double homicide. The characters involved aren’t the suspects you expect in a domestic murder — they’re squares in the crazy quilt of American celebrity.
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4 minute read
'Pride and Prejudice and Zombies'
Mr. Darcy slays zombies
It’s hard to get over your first Elizabeth Bennet (Greer Garson) and Mr. Darcy (Laurence Olivier), but Pride and Prejudice and Zombies adds two more candidates to my list of favorites.
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John Ridley's 'American Crime,' season two
Too many shades of gray
The second season of American Crime raises intelligent questions: Can a teenager struggling with his sexual orientation and rough sex fantasies actually be raped, and is there any hope of establishing that legally? Or is Taylor an odd variation of the Victorian heroine who dreams of being ravished, but then decides that wasn’t such a good idea after the fact?
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3 minute read
'Making a Murderer' on Netflix
When innocence isn't presumed
Making a Murderer is the compelling story of how our criminal justice system is broken; it describes a societal murder in which police, prosecutors, the media, and the public conspire to find “undesirables” guilty.
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4 minute read