Regular MovieBabble readers must be growing tired of every review from yours truly opening with a sermon-esque pontification bemoaning the state of contemporary studio cinema, desperately trying to find some light at the end of…
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I’d never seen Training Day before this past week and so I had the idea in my head that Denzel Washington’s character, Alonzo, was the hero of our story. He was rough around the edges and a…
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If there’s one kind of movie that bores me the most, it’s the by-the-numbers biopic, which often plays like creatives formed the script by glancing at a Wikipedia page. You can forget most biopics about…
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Editor’s Note: The following review of The Truth initially ran during MovieBabble’s coverage of the 2019 Denver Film Festival. The Truth (La vérité) seems a particularly tricky film to handle. It covers the stormy reunion…
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In the interest of full disclosure, I must tell you that what drew me to this movie was its title. One of my favorite albums of all time is by a band called Dead By…
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There’s a scene in Dead Poets Society (1989) where English teacher John Keating (Robin Williams) has his students walk around a courtyard to demonstrate a lesson in conformity. If you put some people in a line…
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Reviews
You Can Never Replace Anyone: A Tribute to The ‘Before’ Trilogy [Video]
by Nick Kushby Nick KushWe often turn to film to capture those feelings that we have trouble articulating ourselves, to express something personal to us without going through the highs and lows of it in our own lives. However,…
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Being in your mid-twenties is rough. You’re supposedly young enough to remain attached to the recklessness of youth, yet too old not to have your completely figured out. You subsist on canned and frozen food.…
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If you’re into independent film, and, more specifically, A24 films, odds are that you saw First Reformed earlier this year. It’s even more likely that this film hypnotized you into a state of deep contemplation. If you…
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After writing movies such as Taxi Driver and Raging Bull, Paul Schrader cemented himself as an industry mainstay. If he wished, Schrader could have stopped after those two creations and left behind a legacy that many would have…