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

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HARRIET (2019)

January 15, 2020 by Jacob Nelson in 2019, 5, DRAMA, BIOGRAPHY, H, Oscars 2020

“Erivo is good, but the film doesn’t have a ton of heart or exhilaration”

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January 15, 2020 /Jacob Nelson /Source
Kasi Lemmons, Cynthia Erivo, Leslie Odom Jr., Joe Alwyn, Clarke Peters, Janelle Monae
2019, 5, DRAMA, BIOGRAPHY, H, Oscars 2020
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HIDDEN FIGURES (2016)

January 14, 2017 by Jacob Nelson in 2016, 6, BIOGRAPHY, DRAMA, H, Oscars 2017
"The "feel good" expository historical drama, that says the right thing in our hour of need, but never hoists itself up to scaleable and praiseworthy heights." 
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Theodore Melfi, Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, Janelle Monae, Kevin Costner, Kirsten Dunst, Jim Parsons, Mahershala Ali, Aldis Hodge, Glen Powell
2016, 6, BIOGRAPHY, DRAMA, H, Oscars 2017
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MOONLIGHT (2016)

November 19, 2016 by Jacob Nelson in 2016, 9, DRAMA, M, Oscars 2017
"It is a shy portrait of an aggrieved soul, hemmed in by every fence in his life, that aches with beauty and torturous sentiment."
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November 19, 2016 /Jacob Nelson /Source
Barry Jenkins, Mahershala Ali, Janelle Monae, Naomi Harris, Alex R. Hibbert, Ashton Sanders, Trevante Rhodes, Andre Holland
2016, 9, DRAMA, M, Oscars 2017
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