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Let Him Go (2020)

Some viewers might find its beginning too muted and its ending too gory, but I found most of it to be just right.

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Little Fish (2020)

Little Fish is a wonderful film that reminds us just how much who we are is defined by where we’ve been and who went with us a long the way.

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Buddy Games (2020)

I suppose the only good thing about this withering saga of bullies and jerkwads is that it eventually ends.

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The Little Things (2021)

This is two-thirds of a decent movie, the rest of which strands a powerhouse cast.

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News of the World (2020)

Unlike many modern Westerns, which busy themselves with reinventing the genre or tearing down the mythos of frontier life, News just delivers a good old-fashioned movie.

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The Night (2020)

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Promising Young Woman (2020)

Promising Young Woman’s style may not be for all tastes, but hidden within its unique comedy is a message everybody needs to hear.

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Acasa, My Home (2020)

Acasa is one of those rare films that raises difficult questions, and never promises any answers, if the answers even exist at all.

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Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (2020)

Music flows through Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom like a conduit, conducting the passion, pain, and pride of all the characters who play it.

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Hillbilly Elegy (2020)
Two and Half Stars

Ultimately, the story never attains the dramatic lift for which it aspires, and the result is a movie that rings surprisingly hollow.

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