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Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle
(2025)
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Amyana Bartley
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With absolutely the most impeccable artistry I’ve seen in recent decades, Infinity Castle wows and takes your breath away in every scene.
Posted Nov 09, 2025
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The Uninvited
(2024)
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Amyana Bartley
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Conners has created a brilliant film the likes of which we haven’t seen in a very long time.
Posted May 24, 2025
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6.5/10
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The Falling Sky
(2024)
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Amyana Bartley
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Will we ever awaken before it’s too late?
Posted Mar 27, 2025
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The Rule of Jenny Pen
(2024)
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Amyana Bartley
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The film has lots of elements of possibility and brilliance, but the script just wasn’t there for it, which was greatly disappointing.
Posted Mar 12, 2025
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Regarding Us
(2024)
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Amyana Bartley
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Regarding Us is a moral discussion about how bigotry and church based ignorance fail and harm their own people.
Posted Dec 15, 2024
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Look Into My Eyes
(2024)
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Amyana Bartley
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Look Into My Eyes is a highly ambitious and thought provoking idea that, unfortunately, lacks any precise focus or theme, and meanders to its own demise.
Posted Sep 10, 2024
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Smoking Tigers
(2023)
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Amyana Bartley
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Using outstanding imagery, this film softly lulls you into its world in a way that I’ve not seen done before.
Posted Aug 27, 2024
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Sorry/Not Sorry
(2023)
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Amyana Bartley
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What Mones and Suh have done by creating this visual collage of The New York Times report, amplifies its message while giving us real faces of the people who were traumatized by CK, so they aren’t just words on a page.
Posted Jul 21, 2024
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The Vourdalak
(2023)
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Amyana Bartley
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Overall a stunning to look at film, with just enough creativity to offset the suspension of disbelief issues and the bits of absurdity from its main villain.
Posted Jun 25, 2024
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Tiger Stripes
(2023)
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Amyana Bartley
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Bravo to both cast and crew for bringing to light what we still need to change and illustrating through Zaffan, that our (women's) collective spirits cannot and will not be silenced any longer.
Posted Jun 15, 2024
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Solo
(2023)
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Amyana Bartley
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Dupuis’s passion drips like sweet nectar throughout this film and everything is perfectly set up to put audiences at ease and lull us into this beautiful and sometimes heartbreaking character study.
Posted May 30, 2024
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Nightwatch: Demons Are Forever
(2023)
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Amyana Bartley
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Overall, it’s an entertaining film that horror enthusiasts may like, if they don’t go into it with high expectations.
Posted May 21, 2024
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Pure O
(2023)
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Amyana Bartley
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Its reality is far too limited in scope and depicts OCD as an alarmingly easy to deal with disorder.
Posted May 03, 2024
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American Delivery
(2024)
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Amyana Bartley
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At such a crucial time in America, when women’s rights are being cruelly eliminated, this is the type of film we need when looking for hope.
Posted May 01, 2024
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East Bay
(2022)
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Amyana Bartley
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The film leaves us with the thought that, though we don’t have all the answers, there is always hope, no matter how small of an amount we can see. It is naively innocent, yet unintentionally brilliant and beautifully human.
Posted Apr 26, 2024
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The Coffee Table
(2022)
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Amyana Bartley
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So simplistic, so surreal and yet violently authentic, it is a breathtaking, all consuming ride into just how far darkness can consume us, both literally and figuratively.
Posted Apr 22, 2024
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The Three Musketeers: Part II - Milady
(2023)
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Amyana Bartley
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Truly an artistic triumph!
Posted Apr 18, 2024
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Arcadian
(2024)
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Amyana Bartley
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Arcadian, though full of creative creatures and action, sorely lacks too much information and script development to be considered well rounded.
Posted Apr 11, 2024
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Against All Enemies
(2023)
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Amyana Bartley
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Against All Enemies brings us a multifaceted buffet of the problems at hand, asking its audience to come up with answers that most of us don’t have the knowledge or power to answer. There is little here to keep us hopeful.
Posted Apr 09, 2024
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The Crime Is Mine
(2023)
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Amyana Bartley
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The Crime Is Mine is a funny, beautifully charismatic film, full of brilliant characters, gorgeous costumes and captivating production design.
Posted Apr 01, 2024
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Femme
(2023)
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Amyana Bartley
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Femme is a mephitic story of two seriously unstable characters, who choose to go down the path of darkness and destruction into a toxic relationship of epic proportions.
Posted Mar 22, 2024
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The Taste of Things
(2023)
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Amyana Bartley
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The Taste of Things, even though lighter on story, is an exquisite film celebrating art, love and cooking.
Posted Mar 04, 2024
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Spaceman
(2024)
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Amyana Bartley
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It felt like a very expensive way to tell yet another story about why cishet men believe that they can be wholly self centered, treat a woman like crap, and still believe they deserve another chance for forgiveness.
Posted Mar 01, 2024
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7/10
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Drift
(2023)
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Amyana Bartley
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Drift is a slow moving, beautifully portrayed film about the necessity of women’s friendships when the world they know is shattered by violence and the toxic masculine.
Posted Feb 14, 2024
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The Boy and the Heron
(2023)
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Amyana Bartley
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A spectacular vision of creativity, humanity and the unsettling duality of pain and grief.
Posted Dec 15, 2023
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The Three Musketeers: Part I - D'Artagnan
(2023)
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Amyana Bartley
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D’Artagnan proves itself a highly worthy contestant amongst its predecessors, shining with exemplary visual craft, writing and acting.
Posted Dec 12, 2023
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1946: The Mistranslation That Shifted Culture
(2022)
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Amyana Bartley
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This is truly a one of a kind film that stands to bring victory in the fight against homophobia and religious cruelty.
Posted Dec 06, 2023
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6/10
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It Lives Inside
(2023)
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Amyana Bartley
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Overall, it is a fun, creepy, weekend with friends film, that is a surprising and welcome addition to horror, with plenty of amusement to offer fans.
Posted Nov 13, 2023
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Pain Hustlers
(2023)
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Amyana Bartley
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Pain Hustlers struggles, in multiple ways, to be effective and leaves us with the feeling that the makers weren’t on the right side of the slant they ran with. It was too frivolously handled and it wasn’t clear what message it intended to get across.
Posted Oct 31, 2023
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6.5/10
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Dark Harvest
(2023)
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Amyana Bartley
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Dark Harvest is an unexpectedly entertaining and enthralling horror, that continues to hold your attention even through its weaker points.
Posted Oct 12, 2023
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6/10
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Nandor Fodor and the Talking Mongoose
(2023)
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Amyana Bartley
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Nandor Fodor and the Talking Mongoose is a creative, yet very slow moving and talky piece. It would be a whimsical, easy going film to see if you want to chill out for a couple of hours on a humdrum Saturday.
Posted Sep 19, 2023
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Moon Garden
(2022)
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Amyana Bartley
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Moon Garden is nothing short of astonishing.
Posted May 24, 2023
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Evil Dead Rise
(2023)
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Amyana Bartley
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Skip it. You’ve already seen all of this in other, better films.
Posted Apr 25, 2023
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To Catch a Killer
(2023)
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Amyana Bartley
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The small amount of action scenes are quite exciting but the film drops its audience off for such long periods of talking tedium that any interest becomes void.
Posted Apr 20, 2023
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All Quiet on the Western Front
(2022)
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Amyana Bartley
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Though the production design and cinematography is off the charts phenomenal, I felt perplexed and cheated by the lack of character development.
Posted Apr 09, 2023
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Sign the Show: Deaf Culture, Access & Entertainment
(2021)
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Amyana Bartley
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Brewer creates her freshman film with abundant heart and meticulous singularity on a subject that, until now, hasn’t had a spotlight.
Posted Feb 18, 2023
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Little Nicholas
(2022)
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Amyana Bartley
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Little Nicholas is absolute magic! It is a story about friendship, chasing your dreams and keeping hope alive in dark times.
Posted Jan 14, 2023
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The Harbinger
(2022)
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Amyana Bartley
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The stand outs are the moody cinematography and the eminently focused performance by Gabby Beans. But the predominantly failed script shadowed over a concept that, if developed with more heart and insight, might have turned into a genuinely scary film.
Posted Dec 04, 2022
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Vesper
(2022)
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Amyana Bartley
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Buozyte and Samper, along with their visual and special effects crew, create a rich and dazzling world not yet seen before
Posted Oct 12, 2022
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C-
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Medieval
(2022)
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Amyana Bartley
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Zizka could be an exciting character to follow. As it is though, this particular film is just “there”, never rising to any breathtaking crescendo.
Posted Sep 08, 2022
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The Sea Beast
(2022)
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Amyana Bartley
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The Sea Beast is a welcome change from all the films based upon books, comics or graphic novels. I felt a sense of comforting familiarity that I had as a person who grew up with a plethora of original screenplay films.
Posted Jul 08, 2022
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Kaepernick & America
(2022)
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Amyana Bartley
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Kaepernick and America brings into focus one man’s struggle with the systemic racism that has haunted America since its beginning.
Posted Jun 22, 2022
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Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power
(2022)
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Amyana Bartley
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Thought you knew all the ways that toxic patriarchy seeps into your brain and creates the way you view and think about women? Think again.
Posted Jan 29, 2022
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Prayers for the Stolen
(2021)
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Amyana Bartley
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Prayers For the Stolen is a beautifully filmed, heartfelt and heartbreaking feature that demonstrates the resilience of the human spirit.
Posted Dec 29, 2021
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White on White
(2019)
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Amyana Bartley
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The message gets quietly branded on your soul. It may not affect those with privilege as much, but for women and people of color, it's a reminder of the history of violence we descend from and the tightrope we still walk where "male and white is right".
Posted Dec 16, 2021
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A La Calle
(2021)
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Amyana Bartley
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A La Calle stands as a towering rallying cry for the oppressed across the globe.
Posted Sep 27, 2021
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Rare Beasts
(2019)
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Amyana Bartley
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Rare Beasts is a look into broken people attempting to find love and acceptance, at the cost of their dignity. It seems to be a commentary regarding how alike so many of us are in our insecurities under the weight of toxic society.
Posted Aug 23, 2021
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The Body Fights Back
(2020)
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Amyana Bartley
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The Body Fights Back is an effective, all encompassing overview of the adverse, repugnant repercussions caused by the toxic, fat phobic diet and food industry.
Posted Aug 02, 2021
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The Legend of the Underground
(2021)
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Amyana Bartley
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Legend of the Underground stands strong as a crucial part of the international conversation we need to be having concerning human rights.
Posted Jul 06, 2021
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Wrath of Man
(2021)
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Amyana Bartley
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Wrath of Man is another example of a filmmaker with privilege using his status to push through a shoddily thrown together script and spending reckless amounts of money on something with no heart or point
Posted May 15, 2021
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