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FURMAN ON FILM
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 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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Jan 9, 20232 min read
Pearl - 2022
The reaction to Pearl has caused me some real consternation. It is a fine enough picture (as we’ll get to in a moment’s time), but one I...
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Dec 5, 20224 min read
Aftersun - 2022
This review may contain spoilers. "Oh no," you say. "Tell me this isn't another 'memory is a faulty camera' picture." Well, it is. Then...
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Feb 5, 20224 min read
Red Rocket - 2021
To be completely honest, I watched the entirety of Red Rocket with a growing sense of disgust. No, that's not even the word for it....
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Jan 22, 20224 min read
The Tragedy of Macbeth - 2021
There are a lot of things of which I am unsure. It is not obvious to me, for instance, that this is anywhere near the best Macbeth...
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Nov 4, 20218 min read
The Green Knight - 2021
This review may contain spoilers. In The Green Knight, we’re introduced to a world which is at once wholly familiar to us, yet altogether...
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Aug 17, 20213 min read
Eighth Grade - 2018
Ah, middle school. We remember it well, don’t we? The time of growth that it contained for us. Puberty (yikes!). Nascent feelings of...
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Apr 21, 20213 min read
Minari - 2020
Hypothetically speaking, you could turn a corner down a short foyer hallway and enter a crowded, bustling table. The din would hit you...
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Dec 2, 20202 min read
EX Machina - 2014
Plenty of adjectives could be used to describe Ex Machina – eerie, haunting, claustrophic, mind-bending. All are apt, and all convey a...
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Feb 10, 20202 min read
Midsommar - 2019
The story of Midsommar, for me, actually begins a year previously. It was 2018, and I was staring blankly as the credits of Ari Aster's...
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