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Gloria Bell
Gloria Bell is a sensitive look at a woman not content to just be a mother/grandmother. While she is still alive, she wants to live the best

Ben Pivoz
Mar 29, 2019


Five Feet Apart
We are supposed to want to see them overcome this space and risk everything just to feel each other’s touch. However, in the most intimate m

Ben Pivoz
Mar 14, 2019


Cold War
This is a wonderfully made film. While it has less action than five minutes of a lot of other movies, I could not look away from it. It is s

Ben Pivoz
Feb 10, 2019


Stan & Ollie
I ended up enjoying it for stretches thanks to the performances as well as the general pleasantness of the entire production. It is heavy wi

Ben Pivoz
Jan 31, 2019


On the Basis of Sex
This is the story of an underdog fighting against an oppressive system. It works better as that than it does as straight biography. Like man

Ben Pivoz
Jan 16, 2019


Ben is Back
Ben is Back is a great family drama that branches out slightly more than it can handle. It is still quite good, with a couple of really powe

Ben Pivoz
Jan 12, 2019


The Favourite
This is by far Yorgos Lanthimos' most accessible film, but that certainly does not make it an easy watch. The story of two women battlin

Ben Pivoz
Jan 7, 2019


Vice
Vice tells a complicated story in a way that strips away its complexity. Its narrative is mostly linear, yet it is kind of confusing. Events

Ben Pivoz
Jan 5, 2019


If Beale Street Could Talk
It wanders through these lives, catching moments of love, anger, joy and despair. By the end, I felt like I knew them, like I understood the

Ben Pivoz
Dec 25, 2018


Welcome to Marwen
I would not mind an entire movie set in the fantasy world. Welcome to Marwen uses it only as a way of adding artificial depth to its live-ac

Ben Pivoz
Dec 23, 2018
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