American Animals

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Were it not for the real-life event upon which American Animals is based, it could have easily been a typical college comedy.  Its deceptively simple setup – four in-over-their-heads students plan to rob their school – sounds more like a 2000s frat movie than the unique blend of genres it turns out to be.  I stress the word “blend,” because the movie is simultaneously a breezy college comedy, a heist movie, and a stranger-than-fiction docudrama. Continue reading

The Killing of a Sacred Deer

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It’s never a bad thing when a movie is hard to describe.  That quality doesn’t guarantee greatness (or even goodness), but it almost always means the movie is unique in some way.  The Killing of a Sacred Deer falls into this category, and I’ll do my best to review it here. Continue reading