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Excerpt: If “Monday” makes any point at all, it is that sexual attraction does not a relationship make.

2021 Films In Theaters Now In Select Areas

Classics & Other Film Reviews

Classics & More on DVD (Apr. 13, 2021)

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Here are our latest reviews of films on DVD.

Pre-2018 Film Reviews

Sensation Seekers and A Chapter in Her Life: Two Films by Lois Weber

Sarah Boslaugh @ The Arts STL (1927)

Excerpt: A Chapter in Her Life has the visual strengths of many silent pictures, including beautiful sets and costumes and accomplished, if melodramatic, acting.

The Grab Bag

From Our Members’ Desks (Apr. 12, 2021)

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OFCS members don’t just write film reviews. Here are several articles you might find interesting.

Best of Lists

5 Favorites Redux #75: Oscars: Male Actors

Susan Granger @ www.susangranger.com

Awards Coverage

Examining Oscar’s Below-the-Line Nominees

Excerpt: Without doubt, movies are the most collaborative artistic medium, and streaming has made this year’s contenders more available than ever before.

This Week at the Movies (Apr. 9, 2021)

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Here are some reviews of films coming out at the theater this week as well as others that may be in theaters or newly on home video.

Opening: Apr. 9, 2021

Wide (United States)

Voyagers

Limited (United States)

Moffie

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Excerpt: The film, which is both unflinchingly brutal and often quite beautiful, lays a groundwork for understanding the white male South African mindset given the military’s harsh indoctrination into hate politics…

2021 Films In Theaters Now In Select Areas

Classics & Other Film Reviews

Classics & More on DVD (Apr. 6, 2021)

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Here are our latest reviews of films on DVD.

Pre-2018 Film Reviews

Up Close & Personal

The Grab Bag

From Our Members’ Desks (Apr. 5, 2021)

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OFCS members don’t just write film reviews. Here are several articles you might find interesting.

Best of Lists

5 Favorites Redux #74: Oscars: Directing

Interviews

Interview with SXSW Breakout Mallory Everton: Star, Writer, and Director of ‘Recovery’

Matt Oakes @

Excerpt: I had a chance to speak with Mallory Everton about breaking out during a pandemic, her first SXSW experience, the joys (and not-so-joys) of making a movie with your BFF, and what’s next for her.

Awards Coverage

93rd Oscars: The Polls – Best Sound

93rd Oscars: The Polls: Best Visual Effects

93rd Oscars: Upcoming Precursors – April

The Friday Face-Off, Losers Bracket Round 2, #7

Susan Granger @ www.susangranger.com

Oscar-Nominated Performances – Best of 2021

Poll: Remaking Best Adapted Screenplay

The Rundown 2020: Documentary Feature

The Rundown 2020: Documentary Short Subject

The Rundown 2020: International Feature Film

The Rundown 2020: Live Action Short Film

The Rundown 2020: Original Score

The Rundown 2020: Original Song

This Week at the Movies (Apr. 2, 2021)

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Here are some reviews of films coming out at the theater this week as well as others that may be in theaters or newly on home video.

Opening: Apr. 2, 2021

Wide (United States)

Godzilla vs. Kong

The Unholy

Limited (United States)

2021 Oscar Nominated Shorts – Animation

Excerpt: The Oscar nominated short animations comprise the most diverse program of the three featuring the obligatory Disney selection, a charming lesson for kids, to an experimental rumination of city life from France, off-beat humor from Iceland, a damning expression of grief and a mind-blowing history of the entire world told in nine minutes.

2021 Oscar Nominated Shorts – Documentary

Excerpt: The short subject documentaries cover a wide range of subjects this year, three reaching into the past while addressing contemporary issues.

2021 Oscar Nominated Shorts – Live Action

Lee Jutton @ Film Inquiry

Excerpt: The nominated short Live Action films all find a unique perspective to explore their themes. It is of note that the only two films not from the U.S. happen to be from Israel and Palestine.

Amundsen: The Greatest Expedition

Excerpt: In attempting to fit a lifetime of legendary adventure and personal upheaval into a mere two-hour film, Amundsen: The Greatest Expedition doesn’t manage to tell us that much about any of it.

2021 Films In Theaters Now In Select Areas

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Classics & Other Film Reviews

Classics & More on DVD (Mar. 30, 2021)

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Pre-2018 Film Reviews

The Grapes of Wrath

Josh Taylor @ The Forgetful Film Critic (1940)

Excerpt: Considering a contemporary movie like Nomadland, the non-fiction book upon which that film was adapted, and other journalism focused on empathy for the poor, the message of The Grapes of Wrath is as salient today as it’s ever been. It deserves it’s place as one of the first 25 films preserved, in 1989, as part of the Library of Congress’s National Film Registry.

Talk to Her

Wesley Lovell @ Cinema Sight (2002)

The Grab Bag

From Our Members’ Desks (Mar. 29, 2021)

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OFCS members don’t just write film reviews. Here are several articles you might find interesting.

Best of Lists

5 Favorites Redux #73: Oscars: Animated Feature

C.H. Newell @ Father Son Holy Gore

Interviews

C.H. Newell Interviews Director Chad Crawford Kinkle

Excerpt: C.H. Newell picks Chad Crawford Kinkle’s brain for a little while about experimental horror, Dementer’s unique production, disability representation in film, as well as much, much more.

Minari Star Youn Yuh-jung on Memories, Mountain Dew, and a Myopic America

Jose Solis @ The Film Stage

Soleil Moon Frye “Opened Pandora’s Box” by Creating Kid 90

Candice Frederick @ Harper’s Bazaar

Awards Coverage

The Friday Face-Off, Losers Bracket Round 2, #6

Poll: Remaking Best Adapted Screenplay, 1998

The Rundown 2020: Original Score

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Video Essays, Video Reviews, Vlogs & More

This Week at the Movies

This Week at the Movies (Mar. 26, 2021)

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Here are some reviews of films coming out at the theater this week as well as others that may be in theaters or newly on home video.

Opening: Mar. 26, 2021

Wide (United States)

Nobody

Rick Aragon @ Rick’s Texan Reviews

Limited (United States)

Shoplifters of the World

Excerpt: Shoplifters of the World is a love letter to both The Smiths and their fans.