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Steve!-(Martin):-A-Documentary-in-2-Pieces-(2024)

Steve! (Martin): A Documentary in 2 Pieces (2024)

There’s nothing worse than watching a bio-doc about a revolutionary, unique, creative voice that reduces the life story of its subject to the basic beats, using standard techniques instead of embracing that which made this person’s story worth telling in the first place. Director Morgan Neville (“Won’t You Be My Neighbor?”) likely struggled with this […]

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Free-Time-(2023)

Free Time (2023)

Colin Burgess is having a bit of a moment with the buzzy success of the micro-indie “Dad & Step-Dad” and this week’s release of the truly funny and clever “Free Time,” a movie that uses Burgess’ on-screen energy perfectly. Ryan Martin Brown’s film jumps into the oft-visited waters of the quarter-life crisis but it does

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Shirley-(2023)

Shirley (2023)

John Ridley’s “Shirley” examines the 1972 presidential campaign of Shirley Chisholm (Regina King), the first Black woman to be elected to Congress, and the first woman to campaign for the Democratic nomination for President. Across the timeline of her run for office, “Shirley” depicts Chisholm’s fierceness against the misogynoir that looked to suppress her efforts

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