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Five Cent Cine At Home: Minding the Gap
Skateboarding is the ostensible theme of this award-winning documentary by first-time director Bing Liu. And while the skateboarding scenes are thrilling and exhilarating (even scary), […]
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In the age of Donald Trump, the consummate narcissist, it’s refreshing to find a film that’s all about empathy, all about treating others (or the […]
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Five Cent Cine At Home: Marshall
“Marshall” is a story of the young lawyer who in 1967 would become the first black person to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court, Thurgood […]
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“If Beale Street Could Talk,” the James Baldwin tale of young lovers doomed by an unfair imprisonment of the young man, is the latest in […]
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Five Cent Cine At Home: “L’Innocente”
Respected Italian Director Luchino Visconti’s final motion picture, released in 1976, the same year as his death, is the polar opposite of his 1943 “Ossessione” […]
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[Originally published May 13, 2017.] The documentary “I Am Not Your Negro” provides an absorbing reminder of the intelligence, passion, and dignity of 20th-century American […]
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[This review has a spoiler in the last paragraph.] The setup is short, clear, and electric. Barbora, a talented Czech realist painter, has just opened […]