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Blu-ray Highlights: Week of March 4th, 2018 – A Sound of Thunder

Josh Zyber — Mon, 05 Mar 2018 13:00:01 +0000

The old idiom about March coming in like a lion isn’t just about weather this year. The month starts off with a ridiculously huge assortment of new Blu-ray releases, including a Marvel blockbuster, a few critical darling Oscar nominees, and a whole heap of SteelBooks. New Releases (Blu-ray) ‘Thor: Ragnarok‘ – Marvel’s comic book blockbusters...

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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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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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