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  The First Step 2021

  ★★★ Watched 05 Oct 2022

  Out of a political landscape tapered down to divisive rhetoric and stagnation, filmmaking partners and brothers Lance and Brandon Kramer (City of Trees, The Messy Truth) of Meridian Hill Pictures have emerged with a documentary examining what it takes to get something accomplished.

  The First Step, directed by Brandon and produced by Lance, follows progressive activist (and CNN commentator) Van Jones as he lobbies for action on criminal justice reform by fighting for the passage of the First Step Act…

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  When You Finish Saving the World 2022

  ★★½ Watched 11 Feb 2023

  Jesse Eisenberg’s directorial debut, When You Finish Saving the World, truly embodies his misanthropic identity, resulting in a mixed bag of humor and sustained bouts of uncomfortableness.

  Adapted from his award-winning 2020 audible series, the film centers on the socially awkward head of a battered women’s shelter, Evelyn (Julianne Moore), and her equally awkward but scantily famous (he has 20,000 followers he’s eager to tell you about) musician son Ziggy (Finn Wolfhard). They find themselves muddling through newly found “friendships”…

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  It Ain't Over 2022

  ★★★ Watched 03 Sep 2023

  Sports documentaries are typically fueled by controversy, but It Ain’t Over is about Yogi Berra, a man who was anything but typical. A cinematic love letter from his granddaughter Lindsay Berra, who narrates, the film sets out to reframe a man mocked for being seemingly molded out of Silly Putty, rather than chiseled from bronze and marble, though the 5-foot-8 “everyman” with a Forrest Gump-like charm and Chauncey Gardner-like wisdom consistently found levels of success far exceeding most Hall of…

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