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FIRST OF ITS KIND...

One out of three ain't bad.

Notice what Jonathan Rosenbaum says in the note on FOXTROT. I too am asked to make an annual best list before I have seen a lot of the movies being mentioned by...

Just came upon this congenial note from the admirable Jonathan Rosenbaum:

I now feel I might have done without made much gentler the concluding sentence of my review. Foxtrot is a memorably film...

JERRY ROTHWELL: THE REASON I JUMP (2020)

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JIM FUJIWARA AS THE YOUNG NAOKI HIGASHIDA IN THE REASON I JUMP

A glimpse for neurotypicals at what autism is...

JERRY ROTHWELL: THE REASON I JUMP (2020)

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JIM FUJIWARA AS THE YOUNG NAOKI HIGASHIDA IN THE REASON I JUMP

A glimpse for neurotypicals at what autism is...

KEITH THOMAS: THE VGIL (2019)

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STILL FROM THE VIGIL

A Jewish horror film

Steeped in ancient Jewish lore and demonology, THE VIGIL is supernatural...

GILLIAN WALLACE HORVAT: I BLAME SOCIETY (2020)

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GILLIAN WALLACE HORVAT IN I BLAME SOCIETY

Killer debut

An ultra-indie feature debut by Gillian...

Joe Morgenstern's review of the movie from the WSJ:

BENJAMIN REE: THE PAINTER AND THE THIEF (2020)

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PAINTING, KARL-BERTIL, BARBORA KYSILKOVA IN THE PAINTER AND THE THIEF

Art and transgression: a mutual...

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Yes, you are right. And here's what he did before dying at 58 of a heart attack. Wikipedia "Charles Dickens"::

Born in Portsmouth, Dickens left...

ARMANDO IANNUCCI: THE PERSONAL HISTORY OF DAVID COPPERFIELD (2019)

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A somewhat radical and offbeat 'David Copperfield' that's also fresh and charming...

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THE PERSONAL HISTORY OF DAVID COPPERFIELD (Armando Iannucci 2019) Armando Iannucci (THE THICK OF IT, THE DEATH OF STALIN) has done a multi-racial, free...

KYLE AND MIKE TALK TO JUDD

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COVINO & MARVIN TALKING TO JUDD APATOW ON ZOOM

I'd like to call people's attention to a great Zoom conversation,...

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THE HALF OF IT (Alice Wu 2020). A 15-years-later followup to Wu's debut film, SAVING FACE, it's a Cyrano story set at in high school in a remote Wash....

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KAJILLIONAIRE (Miranda July 2020). On ten best lists so I wanted to see it. A grifter family trio meets a cheery Hispanic woman on a plane and the dynamic...

MIRANDA JULY: KAJILLIONAIRE (2020)

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RICHARD JENKINS, EVAN RACHEL WOOD, AND DEBRA WINGER IN KAJILLIONAIRE

In a trio of low-energy grifters, a late...

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WHAT THE CONSTITUTION MEANS TO ME (Marielle Heller 2020). Reproduces a recent Broadway production, as happened this year also with HAMILTON and DAVID...

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THE DISSIDENT (Bryan Fogel 2020) Definitive documentary of the life and death of the Saudi journalist and Washington Post correspondent Jamal Khashoggi. ...

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A SUN (Chung Mong-hong 2019). Watched this because on the Variety Best Films of 2020 it was no. 1 on Peter Debruge's list. It's an intense story of a...

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BAD EUCATION (Cory Finley 2020). The THOROUGHBREDS director's 2nd feature is an HBO movie about the true larceny scandal of the Rosyln Long Island school...

BRYAN FOGEL: THE DISSIDENT (2020)

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KING MOHAMMAD BIN SALMAN AND JAMAL KHASHOGGI

Jamal Khashoggi, his "real-life thriller," and his legacy

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I AM GRETA (Nathan Grossman 2020 This has been accused of being a lazy, sycophantic doc about Greta Thunberg with too little three-dimensional coverage...

Best Documentaries of 2020

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MOHAMMED BIN SALMAN AND JAMAL KHASHOGGI IN THE DISSIDENT

Working list. Alphabetical order (with links to reviews).

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A WHITE, WHITE DAY/HVÍTUR, HVÍTUR DAGUR (Hlynur Pálmason 2019). Missed this in April when it came online but was reminded, even urged, by its high...

HIYNUR PÁLMASON: A WHITE, WHITE DAY/HVÍTUR, HVÍTUR DAGUR (2029)

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INGVAR SIGURDSSON AND IDA MEKKIN HIYNSDOTTIR IN A WHITE, WHITE DAY ]

Nordic...