Author: Matthew MacDonald
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Extraction, USA (2024)
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Read more: Extraction, USA (2024)As a relative newcomer to the human dynamo that is writer-producer-director-editor-cinematographer-actor Leanne Johnson, I need to know what goes into her pre-workout shaker bottle.
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The ABC’s of Breakups
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Read more: The ABC’s of BreakupsSex Memories: The only worthwhile wreckage from a dramatic split are those moments, etched in your gray matter, of tangled limbs, colliding…
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Chowchilla (2023)
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Read more: Chowchilla (2023)Let’s unbury the lead before diving into the review itself: During the summer of 1976, in the Central Californian agricultural town of Chowchilla, twenty-six children and their adult bus driver were kidnapped by three armed men.
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If Anything Happens I Love You (2020)
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Read more: If Anything Happens I Love You (2020)Via Netflix, I first watched this heart-pulverizing work of short-film animation a handful of years ago. It leveled me…
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Mickey Hardaway (2023)
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Read more: Mickey Hardaway (2023)My heart roars out to micro budget indie features, where every aspect of talent involved does their darndest to make the overall production shine.
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Working in Mental Health Might Ruin Your Mental Health
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Read more: Working in Mental Health Might Ruin Your Mental HealthChewed up, spat out, sucked back in, further masticated, coughed up as a thrashing babe terrified of the rising sun. The whole fucking point was to help other people with mental illness and…Christ weren’t you naive?
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Nyad
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Read more: Nyad“Do you know how exhausting you can be as a friend?” These words drop, with bruised affection, from the mouth of athletic legend Diana Nyad’s best friend and confidante-cum-coach Bonnie Stoll, in the third act break of Netflix Studios’ 2023 biopic, Nyad. Even if you have never felt like saying this to someone, or if…
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The Killer (2023)
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Read more: The Killer (2023)Subtlety in cinema has been on the chopping block for a while now. A deft edit, small asides from characters, the shot of hands that tells the audience more than half a page of dialogue ever could. These things are currently endangered by overly chatty characters, info-dump exposition, and tedious worldbuilding palaver. Not so in…
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Barbie (2023)
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Read more: Barbie (2023)Full disclosure: I love Greta Gerwig. Lady Bird makes me ugly-cryface with gratitude every time I watch it. Her version of Little Women was revelatory and infuriatingly perfect (a writer yet to sell a screenplay notes). She was and is the perfect choice for the project, with longtime partner Noah Baumbach, most recently the architect…