Promising Young Woman
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How Promising Young Woman’s Ending is Enraging at Best and Problematic at Worse

   This piece contains spoilers of Promising Young Woman, especially the ending. Please, if you have not watched the movie, stop reading this, go watch…

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Aaron Sorkin is Changing History

‘Tis the season of Sorkin. Writing mastermind behind pillars like The Newsroom and Steve Jobs (and The Social Network, I guess), the American screenwriter is…

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Raw, Thelma, and the Monstrous Feminine Coming of Age

2017 will always be the year of my favorite coming-of-age movies. And while I am a huge fan of Lady Bird, I don’t think it…

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What We Never See About Sexual Trauma Onscreen

In Jessica M. Thompson’s The Light of the Moon, a woman rediscovers intimacy with her boyfriend after she is raped while walking home. The film…

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Leon
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How Far Can We Embrace the Character and World of Mathilda in Luc Besson’s Léon: The Professional?

The cinematic year of 1994 might carry varying degrees of weight a quarter of a century later. The visceral landscape, our resonating view of film,…

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South Korea
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VIDEO – the Best 50 Films from South Korea

Almost 200 examples of South Korean cinema collected votes as many of you and others beyond selected your own preferences in this flourishing segment of…

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Decade Audrey Brooklyn
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Filmotomy’s Best Films of the Decade – Audrey Fox’s List

Members of the Filmotomy team agonize over their top ten for the decade (2010-19). 10. Star Wars Episode XIII: The Last Jedi The sequel that…

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Filmotomy’s Best Films of the Decade – Maria Lattila’s List

Members of the Filmotomy team agonize over their top ten for the decade (2010-19). It’s been an insanely good decade for film. When we talk…

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Decade Susanne Burning
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Filmotomy’s Best Films of the Decade – Susanne Gottlieb’s List

Members of the Filmotomy team agonize over their top ten for the decade (2010-19). Leave No Trace (2018) One of the best-received films the past…

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Decade Michael Frances Ha
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Filmotomy’s Best Films of the Decade – Michael Frank’s List

Members of the Filmotomy team agonize over their top ten for the decade (2010-19). 10. Sing Street (2016) Take 80s music, with a special love…

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Decade Jennings Moonlight
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Filmotomy’s Best Films of the Decade – Jennings Collins’ List

Members of the Filmotomy team agonize over their top ten for the decade (2010-19). In Alphabetical Order. A Ghost Story (2017) An indie darling unlike…

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Decade Jeremy Inside Llewyn Davis
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Filmotomy’s Best Films of the Decade – Jeremy Robinson’s List

Members of the Filmotomy team agonize over their top ten for the decade (2010-19). Trying to narrow your favorite films of the past decade to…

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Decade Katie Lady Bird
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Filmotomy’s Best Films of the Decade – Katie Keener’s List

Looking back on decades of film it is always so nice to reflect on those that touched in such a way that only film can….

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Decade Amy Silver Linings Playbook f
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Filmotomy’s Best Films of the Decade – Amy Smith’s List

Members of the Filmotomy team agonize over their top ten for the decade (2010-19). 10. The Disaster Artist (2017) There is nothing more fascinating to…

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