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    Joseph Pryweller
    • Jan 31, 2021
    • 6 min

    ONE NIGHT IN MIAMI: HOTEL ROOM SHOWDOWN

    It certainly wasn't easy. One Night in Miami opens with a montage that shows the highs and lows of the Black experience in America in the...

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    Joseph Pryweller
    • Jan 17, 2021
    • 4 min

    PIECES OF A WOMAN: LIFE AFTER TRAUMA

    T.S. Eliot once wrote that what we call the beginning is oftentimes the end, while making an end is often a beginning. Pieces of a Woman,...

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    Joseph Pryweller
    • Jan 3, 2021
    • 5 min

    MANK: TINSELTOWN TEARDOWN

    Mank trades in the grandeur and movie-making magic of Old Hollywood in the 1930s for something far more insidious: a look at the smarmy,...

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    Joseph Pryweller
    • Dec 28, 2020
    • 5 min

    FIRST COW: A WILDERNESS UNBOUND

    Director Kelly Reichardt knows how to shoot nature. Her camera lingers on its many delights in rapturous color: the dew-dripping leaves,...

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    Joseph Pryweller
    • Dec 23, 2020
    • 6 min

    MA RAINEY'S BLACK BOTTOM: LOOKING UP AT THE BLUES

    If there's a way to categorize Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, the equal parts audacious and wistful new film streaming on Netflix, it would be...

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    Joseph Pryweller
    • Dec 13, 2020
    • 5 min

    SOUND OF METAL: SILENCE AND FURY

    From the blackness of a darkened stage, the spotlight is on the drummer, bare -chested, hands in air, ready to beat his tom-toms with the...

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    Joseph Pryweller
    • Nov 28, 2020
    • 5 min

    MANGROVE: A SENSE OF PLACE LAID TO WASTE

    Steve McQueen, director of the magnetic new film Mangrove, treats injustice as if it were a personal affront to mankind. His...

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    Joseph Pryweller
    • Nov 15, 2020
    • 5 min

    THE TRIAL OF THE CHICAGO 7: POLITICS AS THEATER

    In The Trial of the Chicago 7, the new film from Aaron Sorkin now playing on Netflix, Abbie Hoffman, one of the defendants accused of...

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    Joseph Pryweller
    • Oct 30, 2020
    • 5 min

    NEVER RARELY SOMETIMES ALWAYS: OVERCOMING THE OBSTACLES

    There is a scene midway through Eliza Hittman's soul-provoking new movie Never Rarely Sometimes Always that is wrenching in its...

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    Joseph Pryweller
    • Jul 26, 2020
    • 4 min

    THE VAST OF NIGHT: LOW BUDGET, HIGH CHILLS

    When we discuss supernatural thrillers in our modern age, we typically talk about the special effects, the chills coming from the ability...

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    Joseph Pryweller
    • Jul 18, 2020
    • 5 min

    SHIRLEY: THE HAUNTING OF JACKSON'S HOUSE

    Shirley Jackson was known to get under the skin. Her most famous work, the short story "The Lottery," concerned a women who wakes to the...

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    Joseph Pryweller
    • Jul 12, 2020
    • 5 min

    DA 5 BLOODS: SPIKE LEE'S RUMBLE IN THE JUNGLE

    What's going on? With Marvin Gaye's protest music providing the jolting backdrop for Spike Lee's latest joint, Da 5 Bloods, the following...

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    Joseph Pryweller
    • Feb 9, 2020
    • 5 min

    PARASITE: LIFE UNDERGROUND

    The division of the classes has been a consistent movie theme since the cinema's early days. Charlie Chaplin's tramp came from those...

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    Joseph Pryweller
    • Feb 9, 2020
    • 4 min

    JOJO RABBIT: CUTE, CLOYING, CONFUSED

    I went into a screening of Taiki Waititi's Jojo Rabbit uncertain what to expect. This tale of an 11-year-old German boy talking to...

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    Joseph Pryweller
    • Feb 1, 2020
    • 5 min

    LIttle Women: THE ENDS OF AMBITION

    There is plenty of irony in Greta Gerwig's fine adaption of Little Women. Most of it comes from the fact that while marriage and career...

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    Joseph Pryweller
    • Jan 9, 2020
    • 5 min

    The Subtle Subversivness of Mister Rogers

    As I walked out of a movie theater on a cold winter afternoon after seeing It's a Beautiful Day, I heard a couple remark how the film was...

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    Joseph Pryweller
    • Jan 4, 2020
    • 4 min

    Uncut Gems: Ambition as Ammunition

    In Uncut Gems, the wild ride of a movie from Josh and Benny Safdie, a black opal diamond can bring mystical powers. According to one...

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    Joseph Pryweller
    • Dec 30, 2019
    • 5 min

    The Irishman: A Moral Slippery Slope

    To paraphrase, Friedrich Nietzsche, morality comes in two flavors. There is the Judeo-Christian-based form that favors moral kindness and...

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    Joseph Pryweller
    • Dec 26, 2019
    • 3 min

    Knives OUt: Immigrant Song

    A running joke in Rian Johnson's surprising hit mystery, Knives Out, is the fact that the members of an upper-class family in...

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    Joseph Pryweller
    • Dec 19, 2019
    • 4 min

    Ford v. Ferrari: Showing Up the Suits

    The makers of Ford v. Ferrari, the high-testosterone, biographical joyride from director James Mangold, should be called out for false...

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