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'Material' tries very hard to be a work of intellectual and political importance. In the process, it forgets to be a good story and comes off as pretentious.
Read More »‘Material’ is so busy preaching it forgets to tell a story
‘Selma,’ ‘American Sniper’ and how the way we choose our heroes reveals us
As different as 'Selma' and 'American Sniper' are, they can and should exist together in cinema just as their differing world views can and should exist together in society.
Read More »‘The Killing Moon’ eclipses usual fantasy conventions
N. K. Jemisin’s The Killing Moon challenges a number of fantasy conventions. Her world is fully fleshed, with complicated political, cultural and social structures.
Read More »In defense of ‘Girls’ whiteness and lack of racial diversity
The duty of an artist, if there even is one, is to be honest and true to her own story, not to be true to *your* story. If the story she creates doesn't contain much of you, that's because there *isn't* much of you in her actual life, like it or not. To fault 'Girls' for that is to confuse the work of art with the social reality it is depicting.
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