FILM: "THE MENU" OF ENTERTAINING SOCIAL COMMENTARY FILMS

Everything is about experience. We forego the comfort of watching at home and in bed, and sit our bums on a theater seat (sometimes not the recliner kind) to experience image and sound in a dark room with no distractions, and in return, we get to laugh and cry with an audience.

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FILM: LOVE IS A MURDER MYSTERY IN PARK CHAN-WOOK’S “DECISION TO LEAVE”

Park Chan Wook’s 2022 film “Decision to Leave,” is a lot about show, don’t tell. The ebb and flow of tension is the heart that connects the pieces of this film together.

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FILM: WAKANDA FOREVER MADE PERPETUAL WAVES OF WONDERS

Ryan Coogler's Wakanda Forever will live on as a great bookend to MCU (Marvel Cinematic Universe) Phase 4 and as a heartfelt tribute to the late Chadwick Boseman.

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FILM: SARAH POLLEY KNOWS HOW TO GET WOMEN TALKING

Oscar nominated director Sarah Polley deftly handles the pacing of Women Talking and makes it a cinematic experience even if it can seem like a filmed stage play. The 8 women congregate in a hayloft to discuss how to handle the men accused of raping the women and girls in the ultra religious colony.

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FILM: TRIANGLE OF SADNESS: A HIERARCHY OF NEEDS

If you’ve seen director Ruben Östlund’s other Cannes Palme D’Or winning film The Square, it’s clear that he has a knack for parodying professions that can seem pretentious, by doing so, taking audiences for a wild ride while also providing social commentary on the rich and famous.

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FILM: DEAR OLIVIA WILDE, YOU DON'T NEED TO WORRY DARLING

It seems like backstage shenanigans have taken centerstage on the Don’t Worry Darling Press Tour — namely: Olivia Wilde and Harry Styles’ relationship, Florence (Pugh) and Olivia’s rumored screaming match (which has been denied in an open letter from crew members), Chris Pine & Harry SpitGate at Venice Film Festival, not to mention the Shia LaBeouf video receipt that he quit the film versus rumors that he’s been fired.

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FILM: THE WHITE CROW: PERFORMANCE OF REBELLION

THE WHITE CROW is a story about one of the most famous ballet dancers of the 20th century – Rudolf Nureyev during the Height of the cold war when the Soviet Union’s best dancers toured the west. Academy Award Nominated Writer David Hare and director Ralph Fiennes helmed this film that tells a tale of success in subversion.

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5 Films from 2018 You May Not Have Heard of But You Should Definitely See

We are about waist deep in the race that is Oscar season. This is the season we pay full observance to the politics of film recognition established by the The Weinstein Company LLC . So where do film lovers of every kind turn to find out which films belong to this year’s cream of the crop?

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