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4 stars

reviews 4 stars, abbie cornish, caleb landry jones, comedy, crime, drama, frances mcdormand, lucas hedges, martin mcdonagh, peter dinklage, reviews, sam rockwell, three billboards outside ebbing missouri, woody harrelson, zeljko ivanek

THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURI

November 19, 2017

Impulse, regret, and the search for solace

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Ryan McNeil
reviews 4 stars, beanie feldstein, comedy, greta gerwig, lady bird, laurie metcalf, saoirse ronan, timothée chalamet, tracy letts, women in film

LADY BIRD

November 12, 2017

We were idiots, once. Beautiful, beautiful, idiots.

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Ryan McNeil
reviews 4 stars, documentary, elvis costello, ex libris, frederick wiseman, patti smith, reviews, richard dawkins, ta-nehisi coates

EX LIBRIS

October 24, 2017

One of the best films of the year is a documentary about libraries clocking in over three hours long. Yes, really.

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Ryan McNeil
reviews 4 stars, a ghost story, casey affleck, david lowery, drama, rooney mara

A GHOST STORY

August 5, 2017

We all mourn the souls we lose. What if they mourn us back?

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Ryan McNeil
reviews 4 stars, adeel akhtar, aidy bryant, anupam kher, comedy, holly hunter, kumail nanjiani, kurt braunohler, michael showalter, ray romano, reviews, romantic comedy, zenobia shroff, zoe kazan

THE BIG SICK

July 16, 2017

The path to love is seldom a straight line.

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Ryan McNeil
reviews 4 stars, addison riecke, angourie rice, colin farrell, drama, elle fanning, emma howard, kirsten dunst, nicole kidman, oona laurence, reviews, sofia coppola, the beguiled, women in film

THE BEGUILED

July 6, 2017

True violence comes from the quiet backswing of the blade – not the grunt as it is brought down

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Ryan McNeil
reviews 4 stars, boyd holbrook, comic books, dafne keen, elizabeth rodriguez, eriq la salle, hugh jackman, james mangold, logan, patrick stewart, reviews, richard e. grant, stephen merchant, wolverine, x-men

LOGAN

March 5, 2017

In one of the best superhero films yet, we learn heavy is the heart that wields the claws…

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Ryan McNeil
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