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Five Cent Cine At Home: Cuties
Amy (pronounced ah’-mee, Fathia Youssouf) is just 11, but her life has become unusually complex and difficult. A Senegalese Muslim immigrant in France, she’s coming […]
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A couple drives out of a city towards his rural boyhood home so she can meet his parents. He’s funny, not particularly good-looking, maybe not […]
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It could have been titled “Summer of ’83,” after the film it most resembles, “Summer of ’42,” the poignant, sensuous coming-of-age vacation classic. But “Call […]
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Five Cent Cine At Home: Black Panther
The blockbuster “Black Panther” is both a classic super-hero movie (not meant as a compliment), and an immersion into black thought and culture. It breathes […]
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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 […]