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Oct 28, 2024 | 
laweekly.com | Nathaniel Bell
It’s a shrewd move to release Conclave, a slick drama about the election of a pope, less than two weeks before the most contentious U.S. election in recent memory. Edward Berger’s tightly wound follow-up to All Quiet on the Western Front is essentially a treatise on voting ethics wrapped in a legal thriller. (Suggested alternate title: 12 Angry Priests.) It’s a timely reminder that spiritual values almost always become entangled with worldly ambition.
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Oct 25, 2024 | 
villagevoice.com | Nathaniel Bell |R.C. Baker |Darrick Rainey
It’s a shrewd move to release Conclave, a slick drama about the election of a pope, less than two weeks before the most contentious U.S. election in recent memory. Edward Berger’s tightly wound follow-up to All Quiet on the Western Front is essentially a treatise on voting ethics wrapped in a legal thriller. (Suggested alternate title: 12 Angry Priests.) It’s a timely reminder that spiritual values almost always become entangled with worldly ambition.
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Aug 30, 2024 | 
villagevoice.com | Nathaniel Bell |R.C. Baker
Ronald Reagan deserves his own movie. While his popularity waxed and waned over the course of his two terms, even his staunchest critics can’t deny his decisive role in thawing the Cold War and melting Soviet power.
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Jun 28, 2024 | 
laweekly.com | Nathaniel Bell
Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 1 ends with a trailer. Or, more precisely, it concludes with a series of vignettes that gives the audience a “preview of coming attractions” for the next installment of the planned four-part Western chronicle, due in August. The sequence presents wordless clips from scenes we haven’t watched yet, featuring a few characters we haven’t met yet, venting emotions we haven’t felt yet.
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Jun 27, 2024 | 
villagevoice.com | Nathaniel Bell |R.C. Baker
Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 1 ends with a trailer. Or, more precisely, it concludes with a series of vignettes that gives the audience a “preview of coming attractions” for the next installment of the planned four-part Western chronicle, due in August. The sequence presents wordless clips from scenes we haven’t watched yet, featuring a few characters we haven’t met yet, venting emotions we haven’t felt yet.
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Jun 20, 2024 | 
laweekly.com | Nathaniel Bell
A family of Syrian refugees fleeing ISIS is enticed into seeking asylum in the European Union by way of Belarus, but finds themselves unceremoniously dumped in the stark, forested strip of no-man’s-land between Belarus and Poland. The promise of safe passage that lured them there is revealed to be nothing more than political propaganda, and they must now fight for survival in the marshy wasteland patrolled by vicious guards on both sides of the fence.
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Jun 20, 2024 | 
villagevoice.com | Nathaniel Bell
A family of Syrian refugees fleeing ISIS is enticed into seeking asylum in the European Union by way of Belarus, but find themselves unceremoniously dumped in the stark, forested strip of no man’s land between Belarus and Poland. The promise of safe passage that lured them there is revealed to be nothing more than political propaganda, and they must now fight for survival in the marshy wasteland patrolled by vicious guards on both sides of the fence.
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May 31, 2024 | 
newsbreak.com | Nathaniel Bell
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May 31, 2024 | 
laweekly.com | Nathaniel Bell
Westerns are such an endangered species these days that it’s refreshing merely to see them attempted at all. To make a Western — or an “oater,” as old-school film buffs fondly refer to them — is an act of faith in the powerful lure of this most American of genres. The Dead Don’t Hurt is Viggo Mortensen’s second try as director and it’s the kind of vanity project you can admire even when it misses the mark, because Mortensen believes so firmly in what he’s doing.
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May 29, 2024 | 
villagevoice.com | Nathaniel Bell
Westerns are such an endangered species these days that it’s refreshing merely to see them attempted at all. To make a Western — or an “oater” as old-school film buffs fondly refer to them — is an act of faith in the powerful lure of this most American of genres. The Dead Don’t Hurt is Viggo Mortensen’s second try as director. It’s the kind of vanity project you can admire, even when it misses the mark, because Mortensen believes so firmly in what he’s doing.
