Watching this documentary should be mandatory, especially if you're American. Duvernay's masterful directing and spirited passion led to the creation of the best documentary of the year (Ooooscaaar). Every frame, every song, every testimony staggers you. You've probably already watched dozens of documentaries about racial inequality, mass incarceration, the prison industrial complex without really being aware of the extent of the issue. Duvernay makes it impossible to turn a blind eye to this blatant truth: Slavery is alive and well. 13th is more than a documentary, it's a wake up call.
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Captain Fantastic 2016
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Captain fantastic is a gorgeously photographed immersion in a "paradise out of Plato’s ‘Republic'" on the fringe of society where children are trained, taught to hunt, and develop the necessary critical thinking skills to understand and engage with anything; music, philosophy, literature, etc.. This could have easily been an arrogant, boring anti-establishment film that is content to offer only one perspective: the society we live in has been ruined by neoliberal capitalism, the end, which I'd…
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Elle 2016
What an opening !! From the very first minute, the tone is set. Verhoeven, master of the art of pushing the boundaries of the unorthodox delivered a masterpiece. This film is perfect, not only it's one of the best psychological thriller of the year but its so much more than that, it deals with an unfathomable theme: the invisible line between sanity and insanity, between innocence and guilt, between moral and immoral behavior. Probably the best film I've watched this…
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Don't Breathe 2016
Glad to say that it met my expectations. The dreadful and dramatic build up of tension and suspense that streamlines the entire movie, up to the end, is entertainingly terrifying.
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