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“Greta” banks on contrived and dated conventions surrounding how women behave, and in the few moments it tries to defy those standards, it backs itself into a drab and insipid corner of clichés.
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Run for the exits in disgust or fall for this manic pixie dream girl of a campy, supernatural thriller. Luca Guadagnino rebranded Dario Argento’s 1977 cult classic, “Suspiria,” in an exercise in Hollywood world building that’s about as polarizing as listening to your mate’s stories about gap year.
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What most strikes anyone watching “The Miseducation of Cameron Post” is its abrupt moments of humor, given the film’s melancholy subject matter.
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Chloë Grace Moretz stars as the titular character, who is sent to a conversion camp called God’s Promise by her aunt Ruth (Kerry Butler).
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While The Daily Californian may not be able to publish our full reviews of these films until their respective release dates, here are sneak previews of two highly anticipated LGBTQ+ films of 2018.
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Imagine a woman who simply does not want to grow up — so much so, in fact, that she ends up befriending a group of high schoolers in an attempt to escape the complexities and crises of her own life. Such is the premise of “Laggies,” directed by Lynne Shelton
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It’s not an easy choice to make: deciding whether to live or die, to stay or to go. Thankfully, most of us never have to make that choice — either death takes our decision-making capabilities from us, or by the time we have to choose, we no longer possess any
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2013 is the year of the superhero. With so many spandex-clad hunks flying through the silver-screen skies, it would be easy for Jeff Wadlow’s follow-up to the 2010 action-comedy “Kick-Ass” to get lost in the crowd. What “Kick-Ass 2” lacks in shiny hair and noble origin stories, however, it makes
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