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  • Wild Women

    ★★★½

  • Loud Enough - Surviving Justice

    ★★★½

  • It Came from Outer Space

    ★★★

  • Demolition

    ★★★½

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  • Wild Women

    Wild Women

    ★★★½

    The title is, perhaps, misleading here. This is not the wild of spring break in Florida. This is the wild of nature, of our inner self, of unconstricted exploration.

    The film moves slowly, deliberately, through time, sometimes impossibly slow. The narration is quiet, almost ASMR, though it is broken up with interviews of other women on similar but different paths.

    Unfortunately, by the time the subject reaches something of a spiritual understanding, I had almost been lulled to sleep by…

  • Loud Enough - Surviving Justice

    Loud Enough - Surviving Justice

    ★★★½

    Empathetic look at how the system fails all but the most "perfect" victims and how one victim, with the support of family and help from activists, challenges that system.

    In many ways, this doc is like a thousand other true crime docs. The format doesn't offer much room for variation. To some this will be comforting; to others, tedious. I was in the "comforting" camp.

    The doc neither shies away from nor dwells on the details of the incident, and…

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  • The Barber of Little Rock

    The Barber of Little Rock

    ★★★½

    Solid straightforward and uplifting doc about community microlending as advocacy.

  • White Mischief

    White Mischief

    ★★★½

    Watching the ultra rich take refuge in Kenya during the war is stomach turning. When people started dying, I wasn't sad about it.

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