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Free Solo (2018) ☆☆☆1/2(3.5/4): Climbing up a rock alone – without rope

Posted on February 15, 2019

Watching Oscar-nominated documentary film “Free Solo”, which also won the People’s Choice documentary award when it was shown at the Toronto International Film Festival in last year, was a pretty terrifying experience to me due to my longtime fear of … Continue reading →

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Innocent Witness (2018) ☆☆1/2(2.5/4): Sincere but predictable

Posted on February 14, 2019

South Korean film “Innocent Witness” does not turn out to be worse than I feared. As a guy in the autistic spectrum, I was certainly concerned a lot about its depiction of autism before watching it, and I was relieved … Continue reading →

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4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2007) ☆☆☆☆(4/4): One hard day in Romania, 1987

Posted on February 12, 2019

I still remember well how much I was chilled by one particular moment in Cristian Mungiu’s “4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days”, a stark, sobering drama film set in Romania during the final years of Nicolae Ceaușescu’s communist regime. … Continue reading →

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High Flying Bird (2019) ☆☆☆(3/4): A slick and smart NBA drama

Posted on February 8, 2019

Steven Soderbergh’s latest film “High Flying Bird”, which is released on Netflix today, is a slick and smart drama which makes some clear points on how flawed a major American sports business system has been. While never preachy or didactic … Continue reading →

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The Unicorn (2018) ☆☆☆(3/4): Searching for their threesome partner

Posted on February 7, 2019

“The Unicorn” is a little amusing sex comedy willing to go along with its two main characters who are eager to have more fun and excitement for their long relationship. As these two characters respectively try to figure about what … Continue reading →

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February (2017) ☆☆☆1/2(3.5/4): As she struggles during cold winter days

Posted on February 7, 2019

South Korean independent film “February” is a melancholic drama about one young woman’s Sisyphean struggle with her cold, harsh reality. While calmly observing her plight without any judgment or excuse, the movie works as a haunting character study accompanied with … Continue reading →

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At Eternity’s Gate (2018) ☆☆☆(3/4): Van Gogh’s last few years

Posted on February 6, 2019

Julian Schnabel’s latest film “At Eternity’s Gate” looks around the last few years of Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890), who was surely one of the greatest painters in the 19th Europe but unfortunately did not receive much attention during his rather … Continue reading →

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