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‘Scream 2’: College is a Horror Sequel
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“Scream 2” proves that it just isn’t that easy to escape your trauma.
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‘Women Talking’ Refuses to Commit to Its Own Premise
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While it may be too much to ask for an Oscar-vying film to suggest the possibility that neither justice nor liberation is a legitimate outgrowth of sexual violence or proto-fascism, the absence of cynicism produces a far more sinister notion.
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‘Elvis’ is a Faux-Technicolor Boomerish Fever Dream
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Where Elvis manages to ever so slightly break free of genre conventions, it supplements dullness with disgust. Ultimately, Luhrmann has produced an exercise in grotesquery, as unpleasant to watch as it’s entirely regressive to think about.
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‘She Said’ Turns the “He Said, She Said” Narrative on Its Head
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How do you handle a story with immense weight? Is it possible to create meaningful change in normalized misconduct? How can you get someone to speak up after they have been silenced? She Said, released on Nov. 18, answered these questions for me as I sat reclined in my hometown movie theater during Thanksgiving break.
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Lindsay Lohan Has Fans ‘Falling for Christmas’ In New Film
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Netflix’s Falling for Christmas is a light-hearted welcome to the holiday season. The film gained considerable attention before its release in due to it being the first film featuring popular actress Lindsay Lohan, who plays the film’s main character, in over a decade.
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A Stylish Sophomore Slump of Cinema: Olivia Wilde’s ‘Don’t Worry Darling’
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As a director, Wilde prioritizes looks over content. You may have seen the film’s trailer, a highlight reel of Stepford Wives visual gags: eggs breaking with nothing inside, Alice wrapping her head in saran, Alice getting pressed to death while cleaning a window. They’re visually satisfying and no doubt creative, but don’t end up being relevant to the plot besides the general messaging that the “separate sphere” ideology is damning. Maybe this would have been groundbreaking during the rise of Second-Wave feminism but at this point has just become shorthand for a very limited view of women’s liberation.
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Lynch: An Ode to the Weirdo’s Weirdo
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As someone who is all three of those, the announcement of a David Lynch series at the Cornell Cinema was enough to make me giddy. But who is David Lynch, why is he so beloved and where can the less weird among us get started with his work?
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Sour Memories and Sweet Music: ‘Olivia Rodrigo: driving home 2 u (a SOUR film)’
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inutes long, in that time we get to see how every single song on SOUR is associated with a specific moment or memory in Rodrigo’s life and how the release of the album was such a momentous time for her too.
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The Many Facets of ‘Turning Red’
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Turning Red is so multifaceted that anyone watching this movie can find parts of themselves reflected in it.
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Miyazaki’s Final Film, and Ghibli’s Undying Influence
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With coming-of-age themes, as well as a strong emphasis on pacifism and environmentalism, [Ghibli movies] continue to remind us of the world we live in and the stories that surround us.