Sleeper Awakened

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

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BONES AND ALL (2022)

February 02, 2023 by Jacob Nelson in 2022, 6, B, DRAMA, HORROR, ROMANCE

“Chalemet is at his twinKing finest”

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Luca Guadagnino, Timothée Chalemet, Taylor Rusell, Mark Rylance, Andre Holland, Sean Bridgers, David Gordon Green, Michael Stuhlbarg, Chloe Sevigny
2022, 6, B, DRAMA, HORROR, ROMANCE
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THE OUTFIT (2022)

April 21, 2022 by Jacob Nelson in 2022, 6, CRIME, DRAMA, O

“slickly tight (a breezy 105 minutes) in this crime thriller whodunnit”

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Graham Moore, Mark Rylance, Zoey Deutch, Dylan O'Brien, Johnny Flynn, Nikki Amuka-Bird, Simon Russell
2022, 6, CRIME, DRAMA, O
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DON'T LOOK UP (2021)

January 13, 2022 by Jacob Nelson in 2021, 6, COMEDY, D, DISASTER, DRAMA, SCIENCE FICTION, Oscars 2022

“we need to drink the righteous slurry that we made of our own ignorance and willfulness”

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Adam McKay, Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Lawrence, Meryl Streep, Cate Blanchett, Rob Morgan, Jonah Hill, Mark Rylance, Tyler Perry, Timothée Chalemet, Ron Perlman, Ariana Grande, Kid Cudi, Himesh Patel, Melanie Lynskey
2021, 6, COMEDY, D, DISASTER, DRAMA, SCIENCE FICTION, Oscars 2022
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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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READY PLAYER ONE (2018)

April 11, 2018 by Jacob Nelson in 2018, 5, ACTION, R, SCIENCE FICTION, Oscars 2019
"It works in the ways that it strives the hardest: being a light escapist fiction"
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Steven Spielberg, Tye Sheridan, Olivia Cooke, Ben Mendelsohn, Lena Waithe, T.J. Miller, Simon Pegg, Mark Rylance
2018, 5, ACTION, R, SCIENCE FICTION, Oscars 2019
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DUNKIRK (2017)

December 28, 2017 by Jacob Nelson in 2017, 8, ACTION, D, DRAMA, WAR, Oscars 2018
"It is a cinematic whirlwind, devastating and changing all that it touches with a style, grace, forlorn, and hope."
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Christopher Nolan, Fionn Whitehead, Mark Rylance, Tom Hardy, Kenneth Branagh, Cillian Murphy, Harry Styles, Barry Koeghan, Jack Lowden
2017, 8, ACTION, D, DRAMA, WAR, Oscars 2018
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BRIDGE OF SPIES (2015)

January 18, 2016 by Jacob Nelson in 2015, 6, B, BIOGRAPHY, DRAMA, THRILLER, SPY, Oscars 2016
"standard Spielberg style and fare"
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Steven Spielberg, Mark Rylance, Tom Hanks, Alan Alda, Amy Ryan, Jesse Plemons
2015, 6, B, BIOGRAPHY, DRAMA, THRILLER, SPY, Oscars 2016
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