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Mid90s

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Mid90s is a really sweet, tender story about making friends, growing up, and forging a new identity for yourself. For all the character’s ups and downs, this is a bright sunny day of a film, promising a birth into a new, if complicated, life.

Arctic trailer

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Going to see this film at GFF19 and the trailer is just clips of Mads Mikkelsen in situations that make him go, “FUCK!” The first wee sigh is like a tiny “fuck” and it just grows in ever increasing stakes to “FUUUCCCKK”. Is it cruel that there’s part of me wants to see this trailer…

On Her Shoulders

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A powerful documentary film about Nadia Murad, a survivor of the Yazidi genocide. It is a film about the performance of trauma, how it is necessary for the media to spread awareness of an issue effectively and to bring the reality of abstract policy to politicians. But also how damaging, and at times surreal, it…

RBG

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Documentary about the American Supreme Court judge Ruth Bader Ginsberg. Very interesting. At 85, she’s doing push-ups and holding planks and writing dissenting opinions on sexist and racist rulings. She does seem like a machine, getting about 2 hours sleep some nights, and not missing a day at work despite suffering from ass and pancreas…