Starring: Rosamund Pike, Peter Dinklage, Eiza González, Dianne Wiest, Chris Messina
This might be the most divisive film of 2021? There s basically no in-between with this: You either love-to-hate Pike as her character defrauds senior citizens, or you just hate her. This is the definition of black comedy, and it s not for everyone, but Pike post-
Gone Girl plays merrily abhorrent to perfection. 10 French Exit
Starring: Michelle Pfeiffer, Lucas Hedges, Danielle Macdonald, Imogen Poots, Tracy Letts, Valerie Mahaffey
Patrick deWitt s razor-sharp book has been compared to a kind of trans-atlantic
Arrested Development. At the center is Frances Pfeiffer has never been better, apparently whose spendthrift days as a socialite are behind her. She faces pennilessness in Paris along with an eclectic cast of characters. It s worth the read, and the watch, for the wittiest dialogue ever. (Check out the content warnings if that s important to you though, because this puts the
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The story of diversity and representation in cinema is about evolution. Take Disney and depictions of Asian life and culture. When the studio released
Mulan in 1998, it was in part a reaction to the gross stereotyping in The Siamese Cat Song in
The Aristocats. Two decades later, and
Mulan has its own issues, but
Raya and the Last Dragon, the 59th animated feature from the House of Mouse enters the discussion.
Where it starts is by throwing out the idea of Asian as it stands in American cinema, which is too often a clumsy mish-mash of Chinese and Japanese influences. The sumptuous mythical world of Kumandra draws in real-world Asian influences: Yet they are not monolithically East Asian, instead evoking Southeast Asia, most especially Malaysia, Myanmar, and Brunei. This is where Raya (Tran) is on a search for a legend, and the shattered remnants of a magical stone that contains the magic of the last dragon, Sisu. What she actually finds is Sisu herself (Awkwafina), slightly
Disney presents its latest animated feature with Raya and the Last Dragon. Is this a great adventure worth watching? Jeffrey Harris has his official review.
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