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Tag: 3.5 stars

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tick, tick…BOOM!

You need to ask: Are you letting yourself be led by fear, or by love?

Posted on November 14, 2021November 13, 2021
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PALM SPRINGS

Sometimes there’s a movie for the moment.

Posted on July 15, 2020July 15, 2020
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HAMILTON

History has its eyes on you – even when you think it has looked another way.

Posted on July 5, 2020July 4, 2020
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HUSTLERS

As the old-school classic goes, “This is story about control”

Posted on September 20, 2019September 20, 2019
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THE LAST BLACK MAN IN SAN FRANCISCO

When so much of your home changes around you, is it any wonder that it feels less and less like “home”?

Posted on July 25, 2019September 21, 2019
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CAPTAIN MARVEL

Is it possible that we all have it within ourselves to be a hero?

Posted on March 10, 2019July 2, 2019
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FANTASTIC BEASTS: THE CRIMES OF GRINDEWALD

The Wizarding World has begun to age. With age comes wisdom…sometimes clarity…and occasionally regret.

Posted on November 16, 2018September 22, 2019
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CRAZY RICH ASIANS

In life, and in love, you can’t play not to lose.

Posted on August 19, 2018September 22, 2019
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Whitney

If you can’t understand where you fit in with your own community, or if you have to deny your very being, no amount of applause will fulfill you

Posted on July 13, 2018September 22, 2019
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HEREDITARY

Sometimes malevolence courses through our own veins…and there’s just no hiding from that

Posted on June 13, 2018September 22, 2019
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READY PLAYER ONE

At his most self-aware, Steven Spielberg asks if we are defined by what we love, or simply that we can love at all?

Posted on March 29, 2018September 22, 2019
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STAR WARS: THE LAST JEDI

Adventure. Excitement. A Jedi craves not these things…

Posted on December 19, 2017September 22, 2019

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