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Dogs Don’t Wear Pants

This is an intelligently made film, well-acted and directed, exploring a difficult subject, relationships between the experience of pain and sexuality, offering much to reflect on.

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Selfie Dad

Michael Jr. as Ben brings soul and spirit to a role that will feel resonant to any parent of a certain age.

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Da 5 Bloods

Spike Lee makes the point that the burdensome, sometimes crippling, legacy of armed conflict can be equally infernal.

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Long Gone Summer

What enhances nostalgia from a malingerer’s daydream to worthwhile study is the ability to re-evaluate the joy against what soured it—precisely what’s missing here.

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Lance

It is his and others’ many honest, searing flares of temper that give Lance a rapturous allure. The anguish, both self-imposed and in response to a corrupt system, has built up over decades and finally finds an outlet.

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Be Water

For the most part, it's a very entertaining documentary, but one with curious holes in its history.

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Artemis Fowl

Branagh succeeds in doing something almost unimaginable. To wit, he makes the formidably gifted--and gifted at being formidable--Judi Dench, tricked out as a leprechaun, seem downright foolish.

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The King of Staten Island

Below the crust of vulgar behavior and language overlying this moving conversion story lies a salute to such values as the dignity of work, emotional connection and the heroism of first responders.

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Dads

Although ‘Dads’ recognizes that human fatherhood has a special nobility, it cannot explain why

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We are Freestyle Love Supreme

Do you care about the evolution, mechanics and process of free-style rapping? Perhaps not, but it's hard not to be impressed, if not awed, by the spontaneous invention exhibited.

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Burden

Its cinematography, in particular, creates a naturalistic feel that forcibly conveys the status of black people lying at the margins.

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The Trip to Greece

Audiences who have visited Greece will be delighted with an overview of the scenic delights of Greece. Audiences who have not visited Greece will be thinking of possible plans for a trip.

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On the Record

A very smart film, filled with highly educated and articulate women who will be silent no longer. 

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Proxima

It has to be seen and appreciated as a domestic drama. Yes, the setting is space exploration, but the preparations and training for those who want to go into space. 

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