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  • Requiem for the American Dream

    ★★

  • The Turin Horse

    ★★★★★

  • On the Bowery

    ★★★½

  • Minding the Gap

    ★★★★

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  • Requiem for the American Dream

    Requiem for the American Dream

    ★★

    Great ideas. Bland, pointless, verging on stock footage esq visuals.  Will probably begin to read Chomsky so the two stars are completely for him.

  • American Honey

    American Honey

    ★★★★★

    A road movie through the eye of the present generation of outcasts. A “mag crew,” or an excuse to roam throughout the Midwest with the loose motivation of selling magazines. Or selling poverty guilt, selling the idea of fun mezcal fueled bbq, sex in a sports car, a flame licked hand job in an field, or an endless series of fleeting romances. Andrea Arnold sometimes indulges too much in the American dream of being on the road with the endless…

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  • These Birds Walk

    These Birds Walk

    ★★★★

    Visually and sonically poetic in it's portrait of parentless youth in Pakistan's largest city of twenty million people, Karachi.

    Most of the film revolves around Edhi, an orphanage in Karachi that takes in parentless youth, runaways, and apparently cleans deceased bodies.
    We follow Asad, a driver for The Edhi orphanage in his mid-twenties, himself parentless and now choosing devote his life to helping kids in his situation; as well as Omar, ten years of age, who's run away from home and ended up at Edhi himself, bursting with energy, wise-cracks, and an armor of toughness.