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November 2021 Viewing Diary

Posted on December 6, 2021 by sheila

The Wire, half of Season 3 This is the busiest time of year in re: film-critic-land, so had to stop my re-watch of The Wire to make room for new releases. I’ll get back to it! All Is Forgiven (2007; … Continue reading →

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October 2017 Viewing Diary

Posted on November 2, 2017 by sheila

11:55 (2016; d. Ari Issler, Ben Snyder) A Marine returns from the war in Iraq and gets sucked back into the criminal element in his old neighborhood, even as his sister, his girlfriend, his niece, plead with him to avoid … Continue reading →

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Nightcrawler (2014); written and directed by Dan Gilroy

Posted on October 8, 2014 by sheila

Jake Gyllenhaal plays Lou Bloom in Nightcrawler, a weird isolated guy in Los Angeles, with only a high school degree, and a very strange personality, who literally stumbles over the underground high-speed world of freelance crime journalism: the “nightcrawlers” with … Continue reading →

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Enemy (2014); Directed by Denis Villeneuve

Posted on August 6, 2014 by sheila

Jake Gyllenhaal plays a double role in Enemy, the film based on Jose Saramago’s novel “The Double” (which I haven’t read). A history professor named Adam Bell meanders through his life, lecturing, coming home, having repetitive sex with his girlfriend … Continue reading →

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Review: Prisoners (2013)

Posted on September 20, 2013 by sheila

My review for Roger Ebert.

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