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B+
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The Topp Twins: Untouchable Girls
(2009)
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Steve Cruz
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It’s safe to say Leanne Pooley’s film delivers a mega-dose of Topp Twins; but instead of cloying, the film feels like a huge comfortable chair... with a kitten or puppy in your lap.
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We Were Here
(2011)
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Steve Cruz
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This documentary illuminates the profound personal and community issues raised by the AIDS epidemic as well as the broad political and social upheavals it unleashed.
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Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn)
(2020)
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Mark Trujillo
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This film is made to make you laugh as much as it’s made to entertain.
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Any Day Now
(2012)
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Steve Cruz
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Less-skilled filmmakers might have gone overboard with forced emotion, plot contraptions and flat characters, but director and co-writer Travis Fine has crafted a deeply moving piece that feels rooted.
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Hockney
(2014)
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Steve Cruz
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A smart and endearing watch that deftly avoids gushing or being precious.
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Wetlands
(2013)
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Steve Cruz
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Carla Juri does a wonderful job as a girl who is remarkably curious, unfiltered, and unashamed -- everything youth should be.
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Lilting
(2014)
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Steve Cruz
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Lilting is simple, tender, and touching.
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Spinning Plates
(2012)
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Steve Cruz
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A great looking, very nearly aromatic documentary.
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God's Own Country
(2017)
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Steve Cruz
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God’s Own Country is beautifully told, not self-conscious.
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BPM (Beats Per Minute)
(2017)
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Steve Cruz
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When the film jumps into the flurry and turmoil of a civil disobedience protest, it still comes down to the individuals whose stories the film is telling. It does so with gravity, humor, and affection.
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Mapplethorpe, The Director's Cut
(2021)
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David-Elijah Nahmod
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It offers a lot of insight into what made Robert Mapplethorpe tick even if it does omit a few important things.
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Tickled
(2016)
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Steve Cruz
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Alternately giggle-inducing and jaw-dropping.
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Into the Woods
(2014)
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Jerry Cunningham
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Cinderella’s Prince Charming and Rapunzel’s Prince are played by Chris Pine and Billy Magnussen, both handsome, shallow, stylish, self-absorbed, chivalrous, and chauvinistic pigs -- I loved them.
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Little Girl
(2020)
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Keegan Williams
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While I cried a number of times, this film is full of joyous moments, and many of those tears were happy.
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Pariah
(2011)
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Steve Cruz
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It is emotionally genuine, populated by believable characters, and driven by dialogue and music that is honest to its characters and their issues.
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A
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Tomboy
(2011)
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Steve Cruz
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Strikingly fresh and uncontrived, lively with wonderful performances.
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B
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Toast
(2010)
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Steve Cruz
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If you love the look and sound of the ’60s, mixed with a doddy story of a charming British gay boy getting his food on, Toast may charm you as much as it did me.
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Wild
(2018)
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Steve Cruz
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This film is an observational visit during which Vidal-Naquet achieves an amazing feat: he makes palpable the phenomenal boredom that weighs on street hustlers, but it’s never monotonous for the audience.
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North Sea Texas
(2011)
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Steve Cruz
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North Sea Texas captures the joy and turmoil without confining the characters to a bubble, and the results are quietly magnificent.
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Making Love
(1981)
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Phil Nash
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The final moments of the movie are among the most emotionally powerful I have ever seen.
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The World According to Garp
(1982)
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Mattie Sue Athan
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Garp is one of those perfect movies; it makes you laugh and it makes you cry.
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A Wedding
(1978)
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Lee Miller
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A Wedding sketches many diverse portraits of people that we have all known, either intimately or by osmosis.
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Another Country
(1984)
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Phil Nash
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The wit is sophisticated, dry, and underplayed.
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All That Jazz
(1979)
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Larry Wegner
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It's about a brilliant man who, yes, maybe have made a film for his peers, but nonetheless, has had the guts to lay it out for everyone to take a peek.
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The Blue Lagoon
(1980)
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Larry Wegner
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The Blue Lagoon is a lovely story, but even more, it's a story about love.
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Ode to Billy Joe
(1976)
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Virginia Hensen
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One thing must be understood about Billy Joe -- it is not a gay film... One must take offense at the inference of a correlation between homosexuality and suicide.
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Cruising
(1980)
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Larry Wegner
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Al Pacino is brilliant...
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