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WITHOUT FILM, SOMETHING SLEEPS INSIDE US AND SELDOM AWAKENS. THE SLEEPER MUST AWAKEN.

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DOCUMENTARY ROUND-UP (TOTALLY UNDER CONTROL, THE MOLE AGENT, DICK JOHNSON IS DEAD, ETC.)

November 21, 2020 by Jacob Nelson in 2019, 2020, DOCUMENTARY, Oscars 2021

Totally Under Control and The Mole Agent are two of the best documentaries of the year, but Class Action Park is probably the most fun of all

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Alex Gibney, Ophelia Harutyunyan, Suzanne Hillinger, Kirsten Johnson, Jonah Malak, Richard da Costa, Alex Parkinson, Trish Dolman, Maite Alberdi, Jenny Popplewell, Jeff Orlowski, Seth Porges, Chris Charles Scott III
2019, 2020, DOCUMENTARY, Oscars 2021
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DRIVEWAYS (2020)

November 18, 2020 by Jacob Nelson in 2020, 6, DRAMA, D

“charming and quaint little family feature”

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Andrew Ahn, Lucas Jaye, Hong Chau, Brian Dennehy
2020, 6, DRAMA, D
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YES, GOD, YES (2020)

November 11, 2020 by Jacob Nelson in 2020, 4, COMEDY, DRAMA, Y

“isn’t a bad film, just surprisingly slow and unfunny”

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Karen Maine, Natalia Dyer, Timothy Simons, Wolfgang Novogratz, Francesca Reale, Alisha Boe, Parker Wierling
2020, 4, COMEDY, DRAMA, Y
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BORAT SUBSEQUENT MOVIE FILM (2020)

November 05, 2020 by Jacob Nelson in 2020, 5, B, COMEDY, Oscars 2021

“the luster and novelty of Borat has diminished”

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Jason Woliner, Sacha Baron Cohen, Maria Bakalova, Tom Hanks
2020, 5, B, COMEDY, Oscars 2021
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POSSESSOR (2020)

November 03, 2020 by Jacob Nelson in 2020, 8, DRAMA, HORROR, P, SCIENCE FICTION, THRILLER

“Possessor strikes me as the kind of understated brilliance that will be looked back upon as staggering and seminal”

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Brandon Cronenberg, Andrea Riseborough, Christopher Abbott, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Sean Bean, Rossif Sutherland, Tuppence Middleton
2020, 8, DRAMA, HORROR, P, SCIENCE FICTION, THRILLER
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SONIC THE HEDGEHOG (2020)

November 02, 2020 by Jacob Nelson in 2020, 3, ACTION, COMEDY, FAMILY, SCIENCE FICTION, S

“If only this Sonic movie could have raced a little faster to the finish”

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Jeff Fowler, Ben Schwartz, James Marsden, Jim Carrey, Tika Sumpter, Lee Majdoub, Neal McDonough
2020, 3, ACTION, COMEDY, FAMILY, SCIENCE FICTION, S
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#ALIVE (2020)

October 23, 2020 by Jacob Nelson in 2020, 6, A, DRAMA, FOREIGN, HORROR

“An otaku gets stuck in his apartment during the zombie apocalypse”

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Il Cho, Ah-In Yoo, Shin-Hye Park, Bae-soo Jeon
2020, 6, A, DRAMA, FOREIGN, HORROR
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THE SPECIAL (2020)

October 21, 2020 by Jacob Nelson in 2020, 3, HORROR, S

“Spoilers: it’s a movie about a mysterious box that men put their penises in”

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B. Harrison Smith, Davy Raphaely, Dave Sheridan, Sarah French, Doug Henderson, Susan Moses
2020, 3, HORROR, S
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CUTIES (2020)

October 20, 2020 by Jacob Nelson in 2020, 6, C, DRAMA, FOREIGN

“never done to aggrandize or proliferate, but to recognize, analyze, and critique that penchant within our modern world to precipitantly plant the mature despite its harmful fruit”

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Maïmouna Doucouré, Fathia Youssouf, Médina El Aidi-Azouni, Esther Gohourou, Ilanah Cami-Goursolas, Myriam Hamma, Maïmouna Gueye
2020, 6, C, DRAMA, FOREIGN
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THE TRIAL OF THE CHICAGO 7 (2020)

October 17, 2020 by Jacob Nelson in 2020, 7, DRAMA, T, Oscars 2021

“packs a dramatic punch while coyly slipping in some wry humor”

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Aaron Sorkin, Eddie Redmayne, Alex Sharp, Sacha Baron Cohen, Jeremy Strong, John Carroll Lynch, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Mark Rylance, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ben Shenkman, Danny Flaherty, Michael Keaton, Frank Langella
2020, 7, DRAMA, T, Oscars 2021
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A SERIAL KILLER'S GUIDE TO LIFE (2020)

October 13, 2020 by Jacob Nelson in 2020, 3, COMEDY, CRIME, DRAMA, FOREIGN, S

“helma and Louise by way of Fight Club, with the lightest dusting of a God Save America sprinkled on top.”

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Staten Cousins Roe, Ben Lloyd-Hughes, Katie Brayben, Poppy Roe
2020, 3, COMEDY, CRIME, DRAMA, FOREIGN, S
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GRETEL & HANSEL (2020)

October 10, 2020 by Jacob Nelson in 2020, 4, FANTASY, HORROR, G

“all icing, rich, decadent and lavish, but merely empty topping on a bland and un-enticing cake”

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Oz Perkins, Sophia Lillis, Samuel Leakey, Alice Krige, Jessica De Gouw
2020, 4, FANTASY, HORROR, G
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BLOOD VESSEL (2020)

October 07, 2020 by Jacob Nelson in 2020, 4, B, HORROR

“vampires on a Nazi ship that must be fought off” is what was promised and is exactly what they gave you

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Justin Dix, Nathan Phillips, Alyssa Sutherland, Robert Taylor, Christopher Kirby, Alex Cooke, Troy Larkin
2020, 4, B, HORROR
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BIT (2020)

October 03, 2020 by Jacob Nelson in 2020, 5, B, COMEDY, HORROR

‘Female empowered vampires that keeps the genre fresh and femme”

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Brad Michael Elmore, Diana Hopper, Nicole Maines, Zolee Griggs, Friday Chamberlain, Char Diaz, James Paxton, Greg Hill
2020, 5, B, COMEDY, HORROR
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SWALLOW (2020)

October 02, 2020 by Jacob Nelson in 2020, 6, DRAMA, THRILLER, S

“A modern young June Cleaver lost in the swallowing void of upper crust emptiness”

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Carlo Mirabella-Davis, Haley Bennett, Austin Stowell, Denis O'Hare, Elizabeth Marvel, David Rasche
2020, 6, DRAMA, THRILLER, S
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BECKY (2020)

October 01, 2020 by Jacob Nelson in 2020, 4, ACTION, B, DRAMA, HORROR

A Joker for tween girls

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Joanathan Milott, Cary Murnion, Lulu Wilson, Kevin James, Joel McHale, Amanda Brugel, Robert Maillet
2020, 4, ACTION, B, DRAMA, HORROR
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DEEP BLUE SEA 3 (2020)

September 14, 2020 by Jacob Nelson in 2020, 5, ACTION, D, HORROR, SCIENCE FICTION

“I am saying it’s worth taking a bite out of”

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John Pogue, Tania Raymonde, Nathaniel Buzolic, Emerson Brooks, Bren Foster
2020, 5, ACTION, D, HORROR, SCIENCE FICTION
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CRIP CAMP (2020)

September 11, 2020 by Jacob Nelson in 2020, 8, C, DOCUMENTARY, Oscars 2021

“truly grapples that cold hollow walnut that I call a heart”

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James Lebrecht, Nicole Newnham
2020, 8, C, DOCUMENTARY, Oscars 2021
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WHY DON'T YOU JUST DIE! (2020)

September 08, 2020 by Jacob Nelson in 2020, 6, ACTION, COMEDY, THRILLER, W, FOREIGN

“ballsy violent expressionism”

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Kirill Sokolov, Aleksandr Kuznetsov, Vitaliy Khaev, Evgeniya Kregzhde, Michael Gor
2020, 6, ACTION, COMEDY, THRILLER, W, FOREIGN
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SPUTNIK (2020)

September 07, 2020 by Jacob Nelson in 2020, 5, DRAMA, FOREIGN, HORROR, S, SCIENCE FICTION

“smooth and classy seemingly decent budgeted Russian sci-fi that has a serious half of a problem”

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September 07, 2020 /Jacob Nelson /Source
Egor Abramenko, Oksana Akinshina, Fedor Bondarchuk, Pyotr Fyodorov
2020, 5, DRAMA, FOREIGN, HORROR, S, SCIENCE FICTION
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