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TIFF Journal: Donnybrook

Jason Gorber — Wed, 19 Sep 2018 16:00:57 +0000

Jamie Bell stars in Donnybrook as Jarhead Earl, an ex-Marine with a penchant for violence. He wants one last bare-knuckled victory to gain enough cash to escape with his family from their impoverished circumstances. When Earl comes back to find Chainsaw Angus (Frank Grillo) and sister Delia Angus (Margaret Qualley) selling drugs to his wife,...

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‘Novitiate’ Review: Sad Nunning

Philip Brown — Fri, 03 Nov 2017 16:00:01 +0000

Earlier this year, we were treated to the nuns-behaving-badly comedy ‘The Little Hours’. Now we’re getting Margaret Betts’ sad, sincere, and painfully true exploration of the misogynistic horrors of marrying God in ‘Novitiate’. Somewhere between the two is a masterpiece that we’ll never see. ‘The Little Hours’ was too flippant and one-note in its humor....

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Now Streaming: ‘Death Note’

Philip Brown — Wed, 23 Aug 2017 19:00:16 +0000

In a strange series of events that will likely only become more common, the biggest movie of the week is debuting on Netflix. The sort of weird genre mash-up that would comfortably fit into a late summer theatrical release, ‘Death Note’ was abandoned by Warner Bros. at the last hour and is now one of...

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Sundance Journal: ‘Novitiate’

Luke Hickman — Wed, 01 Feb 2017 20:00:53 +0000

Reading the synopsis of ‘Novitiate’ led me to believe that the drama would be standard “edgy” festival fodder: a young girl enters a monastery to begin the preparatory process of becoming a nun, only to have her faith shaken. Although this sounds like the usual religion-bashing fare, the film actually treads the middle ground and...

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