FYOV You know you’re in for something special when the main character—39-going-on-40 Radha—experiences something akin to an epiphany, riding on the New York subway, as […]
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Five Cent Cine (At Home): Hacksaw Ridge
The cult of the ordinary hero has long been a central ingredient of American culture. In the Ronald Reagan years, the political right used it […]
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“Judas and the Black Messiah” brings to the screen a horrific event in FBI history, one that reveals law enforcement’s racial and political bias and […]
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Five Cent Cine (At Home): Crip Camp
The title alone—“crip” is of course short for “cripples,” the latter not an acceptable adjective these days, though it is used here by the 1970s […]
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Cassie (short for Cassandra, no subtlety here) is a magnificent machine of vengeance, acted to steely perfection by Oscar-nominated Carey Mulligan. “Promising Young Woman” is […]
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Five Cent Cine (At Home): Minari
At the heart of the mythology of the American frontier is a family—struggling, in relative isolation but cooperatively—to wrest a living, and a life, from […]
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Five Cent Cine (At Home): Another Round
Excessive drinking and existential angst, two characteristics of Danish life—according to the Danes—are stirred and mixed well in award-winning Danish director Thomas Vinterberg’s latest film. […]