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  • The Lost Children

    ★★★½

  • We Live in Time

    ★★★

  • Nickel Boys

    ★★★★

  • The Brutalist

    ★★★★

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  • His Three Daughters

    His Three Daughters

    ★★★½

    Natasha Lyonne talking NY Jets parlays is a cultural reset.

  • Problemista

    Problemista

    ★★★★

    TW: Being harassed by a middle-aged boss about Filemaker Pro.

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  • The End of Sex

    The End of Sex

    ★½

    This premise sounded fun, and yet the reality was an insipid feature that tonally tried to achieve awkward-relatable and instead sunk into awkward-cringe. Besides an applaud-worthy attempt by Emily Hampshire, the jokes did not land. The suburbs of Montreal in the dead of winter are not sexy, and no attribute of this movie convinced me otherwise.

  • A Thousand and One

    A Thousand and One

    ★★★★

    Between a broken foster care system, the stop-and-frisk culture of a Guliani New York, and the rapid gentrification of Harlem, the viewer is made aware within the first 30 minutes that this mother and son are battling a system they were set up to lose. And yet the film carves out moments of victory even as the film barrels into an inevitably dismal conclusion. There is a plot twist that I genuinely didn’t see coming, and it added well to…

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