Category Archives: Entropy

Putting history back onto film with ‘The Woman King’

Posted on January 3, 2023 by reelentropy

8/10 The Woman King is equal parts a sweeping war epic that actively uses the power of mass media to center black, female and queer stories, a brutal muscle movie and a wet, messy soap opera that lives for drama. … Continue reading →

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‘Way of Water’ imperfect, enormous step up

Posted on December 18, 2022 by reelentropy

7/10 If you liked Avatar, you’ll love Avatar: The Way of Water, and if you didn’t like Avatar, The Way of Water puts what the original movie is missing onscreen. More than a decade after the first film, the sky … Continue reading →

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Wakanda long ago, ‘Wakanda Forever’

Posted on November 11, 2022 by reelentropy

7/10 Everyone in the world has been through a lot since Black Panther showed us a magical dream of uncolonized Africa in February 2018. Four years later in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, that dream is tainted by real-life tragedy among … Continue reading →

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Tunneling into the ruins of #metoo in ‘Barbarian’

Posted on October 11, 2022 by reelentropy

7/10 Five years after The New York Times broke that Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein was accused of varying degrees of sexual misconduct by dozens of women who had come to him for employment and used his wealth, power and reputation … Continue reading →

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Yearn and soar with ‘Three Thousand Years of Longing’

Posted on October 6, 2022 by reelentropy

9/10 Three Thousand Years of Longing is an epic psychedelic romance that makes you feel every second, not of its 108 minutes, but of its sweeping millennia. Room 333 of the Pera Palace Hotel in Istanbul- At a fiction conference, … Continue reading →

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