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Five Cent Cine: Bergman Island
If you can tolerate its slow pace (you’ll be tempted to make popcorn without hitting the pause button) and the too-frequent scenes of people riding […]
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Five Cent Cine: Passing
Like its ostensible subject, a woman of color “passing” for white, “Passing” is not the film one might think it would be. The risks for […]
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Five Cent Cine: The Lost Daughter
“It seems,” writes philosopher Alain de Botton in The Art of Travel, “we may best be able to inhabit a place when we are not […]
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Five Cent Cine: Belfast
Set in 1969, at the beginning of the “The Troubles” in Northern Ireland’s largest city, Belfast, Kenneth Branagh’s memoir is a child’s eye view—not of […]
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Five Cent Cine: The Power Of The Dog
The toxic masculinity of Phil Burbank, the epicenter of Jane Campion’s Western set in the isolated plains and mountains of 1925 Montana, overpowers all relationships, […]
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Five Cent Cine: The Souvenir
Director and screenwriter Joanna Hogg’s 2019 film has the makings of an award-winner, which it has been: two fresh-faced actors who know what they’re doing, […]
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Five Cent Cine: DUNE
If, a few minutes into this Denis Villeneuve remake of David Lynch’s 1984 version, you’re having no trouble keeping House Atreides straight from House Harkonnen, […]