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FURMAN ON FILM
Mar 1424 min read
FOF Best of 2023
A TOY DOLL, A DESTROYER OF WORLDS, AND THE WHO'S WHO OF AUTEUR RELEASES IN 2023 There is a popular gif circulating around the interwebs...
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Jul 27, 20239 min read
Feminism & The Empowered Self – Barbie as Both “Meta” Commentary and Inspired, Pop Hilarity
“F**K THE PATRIARCHY!” And with that opening salvo (which never, by the way, appears in the screenplay to the new film about Mattel’s...
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May 4, 20233 min read
Visually Sumptuous Yet Quietly Haunting - The Rider's Exploration of Masculinity in the Modern West
On paper, The Rider simply does not work. In fact, it’s almost oxymoronic. An Asian woman crafting an emotional journey about life in the...
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Apr 18, 20231 min read
Brief Encounter - 1945
It never ceases to amaze me that the man behind a 200+ minute, full-scale epic like Lawrence of Arabia could just pivot to a two-hander...
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Apr 8, 20231 min read
The Vanishing - 1993
The Vanishing joins the long line of films featuring answering machines which apparently have magical powers. Besides being outdated,...
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Apr 1, 20232 min read
Alice, Darling - 2023
Alice, Darling may just be the first real hidden gem I’ve found in 2023. It’s a picture that scans like a taut psychological thriller a...
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Mar 11, 202331 min read
FOF Best of 2022
THE YEAR OF THE FOUR-ISH STAR FILM It's a frequent debate that my best film buds and I engage in all too regularly these days. It always...
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Mar 3, 20232 min read
The Whale - 2022
This film is kind of a miracle. I mean, when have you last seen a picture which contained two titanic performances and at least several...
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Feb 16, 20232 min read
Something in the Dirt - 2022
The secret sauce in Something in the Dirt is NOT in the excavation of heady sci-fi concepts, cultic conspiracy theorizing, and...
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Feb 14, 20231 min read
Pleasure - 2022
Look up the word “unflinching,” and this is the picture you will find. Pleasure has left me far more devastated than the porn-adjacent...
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Feb 3, 20231 min read
Causeway - 2022
I wish they made more films like Causeway. That is to say. simple, human, and deeply moving. A quiet and understated drama that traffics...
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Feb 3, 20234 min read
Athena - 2022
This review contain SLIGHT spoilers. It is rare that I have two such polarly different reactions at the conclusion of a picture. Yet,...
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