‘This Is Not a Drill’ Review: Climate Activism Doc Feels Stuck in a More Hopeful Past

‘This Is Not a Drill’ Review: Climate Activism Doc Feels Stuck in a More Hopeful Past

Had This Is Not a Drill, the new documentary from Oren Jacoby (Sister Rose’s Passion), premiered at the Telluride Film Festival last fall, it would have played as an inspiring story of three grassroots environmentalists taking on Big Oil, offering optimistic examples of individual courage and collective determination in the face of endlessly funded and…

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‘Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere’ Review: Jeremy Allen White Gives Raw, Internalized Performance as The Boss in Contemplative Bio-Drama

‘Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere’ Review: Jeremy Allen White Gives Raw, Internalized Performance as The Boss in Contemplative Bio-Drama

Just as A Complete Unknown escaped the dreary conventionality of cradle-to-grave music biopics by surveying the nascent period in the stardom of its unknowable subject, Bob Dylan, Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere makes affecting gains by focusing on the Artist as a Depressed Young Man. Which is not to say Scott Cooper’s Bruce Springsteen portrait…

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#Telluride Awards Analysis: ‘Saltburn’ Could Return Emerald Fennell and Barry Keoghan to Contention

#Telluride Awards Analysis: ‘Saltburn’ Could Return Emerald Fennell and Barry Keoghan to Contention

Saltburn, the second film written and directed by Emerald Fennell — three years after Promising Young Woman, for which she won the best original screenplay Oscar — had its world premiere at the Telluride Film Festival’s Palm Theatre on Thursday evening, and certainly left people talking. A pitch-black comedy packed with sex, violence and music, like…

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