CAUSEWAY- 2022. Synopsis by Rotten Tomatoes. “”Causeway” is an intimate portrait of a soldier struggling to adjust to her life after returning home to New Orleans.”
11/5/22- Fairly good reviews for this drama. TRDB.
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VOODOO MACBETH- 2022. Synopsis by Rotten Tomatoes. “1936 Harlem is a neighborhood battered by economic strife and hardship. With FDR’s New Deal providing funding for the Federal Theatre Project’s Negro Unit, director Rose McClendon convinces co-director John Houseman to help her bring Shakespeare’s “Macbeth” to the Harlem community at the Lafayette Theater.”
10/27/22-Fair to good reviews.TRDB
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AFTERSUN- 2022. Synopsis by Rotten Tomatoes. “At a fading vacation resort, 11-year-old Sophie treasures rare time together with her loving and idealistic father, Calum (Paul Mescal). As a world of adolescence creeps into view, beyond her eye Calum struggles under the weight of life outside of fatherhood.”
10/27/22- Excellent reviews by the critics and good ones from audiences. TRDB.
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THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN- 2022. Synopsis by Rotten Tomatoes. “Set on a remote island off the west coast of Ireland, THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN follows lifelong friends Pádraic and Colm, who find themselves at an impasse when Colm unexpectedly puts an end to their friendship. A stunned Pádraic, aided by his sister Siobhán and troubled young islander Dominic, endeavours to repair the relationship, refusing to take no for an answer.”
10/22/22- Excellent reviews from all. TRDB.
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THE SAME STORM- 2022. Synopsis by Rotten Tomatoes. “From writer/director Peter Hedges, The Same Storm is an intimate, emotional glimpse into the lives of twenty-four characters persevering over the spring and summer of 2020.”
10/20/22– Fair reviews from the critics. TRDB
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TILL- 2022. Synopsis by Rotten Tomatoes.” Till is a profoundly emotional and cinematic film about the true story of Mamie Till Mobley’s relentless pursuit of justice for her 14 year old son, Emmett Till, who, in 1955, was brutally lynched while visiting his cousins in Mississippi.”
10/20/22- Excellent reviews for this drama. TRDB.
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ONODA: 10,000 NIGHTS IN THE JUNGLE- 2022. Synopsis by Rotten Tomatoes. “Japan, 1944. Trained for intelligence work, Hiroo Onoda, 22 years old, discovers a philosophy contrary to the official line : no suicide, stay alive whatever happens, the mission is more important than anything else. Sent to Lubang, a small island in the Philippines where the Americans are about to land, his role will be to wage a guerilla war until the return of the Japanese troops. The Empire will surrender soon after, Onoda 10.000 days later.”
10/9/22- Very good reviews for this Japanese drama. TRDB.
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TO LESLIE- 2022. Synopsis by Rotten Tomatoes. “Leslie (Andrea Riseborough) is a West Texas single mother struggling to provide for her son (Owen Teague) when she wins the lottery and a chance at a good life. But a few short years later the money is gone and Leslie is on her own, living hard and fast at the bottom of a bottle as she runs from the world of heartbreak she left behind.”
10/8/22- Excellent reviews by the critics and weak ones from audiences. I liked it very much. TRDB.
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TRANGLE OF SADNESS- 2022. Synopsis by Rotten Tomatoes. “In Ruben Östlund’s wickedly funny Palme d’Or winner, social hierarchy is turned upside down, revealing the tawdry relationship between power and beauty. Celebrity model couple, Carl (Harris Dickinson) and Yaya (Charlbi Dean), are invited on a luxury cruise for the uber-rich, helmed by an unhinged boat captain (Woody Harrelson). What first appeared instagrammable ends catastrophically, leaving the survivors stranded on a desert island and fighting for survival.
10/8/22- Fair reviews from the critics and very good ones from audiences. TRDB.
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TAR- 2022. Synopsis by Rotten Tomatoes. “From writer-producer-director Todd Field comes TÁR, starring Cate Blanchett as Lydia Tár, the groundbreaking conductor of a major German Orchestra. We meet Tár at the height of her career, as she’s preparing both a book launch and much-anticipated live performance of Mahler’s Fifth Symphony. Over the ensuing weeks her life begins to unravel in a singularly modern way.”
10/8/22- Excellent reviews for this drama. TRDB.
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