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Visions from the Country
Robbie Basho’s guitar is astonishing. Basho immersed himself deeply in various musical traditions—Indian, Persian, Native American, among others—but cultural syncretism only works when it results in something truly…
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Rambunctious Garden, Marris (2013)
Rambunctious Garden contains a truth about history and a quietly revolutionary argument about the future. The truth is that humans have intensively managed ecosystems wherever we’ve lived. The…
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Spotlight (2015)
Each of us would like to believe that we would rise to the occasion. We would like to believe that if the suffering of the other were horrific…
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Children of Men (2006)
The idea at the heart of Children of Men is unclear. “Hope” is an easy answer, but too easy. Cuarón realizes his vision well; we the viewers feel…
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Hale County, This Morning, This Evening (2018)
At first approximation—from the eye of God, say, or extraterrestrials—each detail of human life is dramatically equivalent. The terrible enormous wars, a forgettable melody, walking to the corner…
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Michael Clayton (2007)
Corporation destroys lives and hides its crimes; a hero employee can no longer deny their conscience and takes on the beast. We’ve been here before, at least in…
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