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Cornering a Predator, Bringing them Back Alive: Review of She Said and Thirteen Lives

If you ask me, two films that should definitely be in contention for best film at the Oscars this year are “She Said” and “Thirteen Lives.” That is, if being totally gripping is the main criterion. You get totally engrossed in Maria Schrader’s retelling of how a New...

Re: Dolly de Leon’s Nomination as Best Supporting Actress for the Golden Globes

Her performance in Triangle of Sadness, where she turns from a meek OFW to, well, a not-so-meek OFW, was superb and saved the film from being another forgettable black comedy. Congratulations, Dolly!

Spellbinding: Review of Decision to Leave by Park Chan Wook

The professional and the personal merge intricately to create a memorable story of crime and passion set in a Korea grappling with the migrants' question. Actors Song Seo-rae and Hae Il-park are, well, simply superb, in another gem from one of today's top-of-the line...

Towards 2042: Review of Caste by Isabel Wilkerson

Others have made the point that America has a caste system, but no one has made it as effectively as Isabel Wilkerson. By a close comparison between the US caste system and those of India and Nazi Germany and weaving the evidence from decades of sociological...