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  Oak Cliff Film Festival’s Menu Includes Movies By Danny Boyle, and Starring Jeff Goldblum and Awkwafina

  May 13 at 4 a.m.

  The reason you go to film festivals like the Oak Cliff Film Festival is because you want to see films. Unlike other fan gatherings, you're not there to wait in ungodly lines for an awkward handshake with a celebrity, blow a week's pay on an overpriced collectible or work your...

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  This World Won’t Break’s Hard-Luck Story Thrives on the Goodwill of Dallas

  April 16 at 4 a.m.

  This past Saturday, This World Won’t Break had its world premiere at the Dallas International Film Festival. The film, directed by Josh David Jordan, is a modern-day musical that tells the story of Wes Milligan (Greg Schroeder), a Texas troubadour who fails to find success as a musician. One day,...

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  Welcome to Marwen Crashes Into the Limits of Hollywood’s Imagination

  Wednesday, December 26, 2018 at 3:56 p.m.

  At times, as it dissolves between scenes of its cast as literal toy dolls machine-gunning Nazis in the made-up Belgian town of Marwen, Zemeckis’ movie seems an inquisition into the limits of the director’s own imagination

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  Vice Can’t Make Sense of Dick Cheney, but It Can Give You a Headache

  Monday, December 24, 2018 at 4 a.m.

  Don’t look to Vice for psychology or even a sense of presence; McKay uses the Cheneys’ grim unknowability as an excuse not to bother going for either

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  On the Basis of Sex Shrewdly Makes RBG Into a Feminist Jimmy Stewart

  Monday, December 24, 2018 at 4 a.m.

  Leder’s film mostly devotes itself to the future Supreme Court justice’s first world-shaking sex discrimination case, 1972’s Moritz v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue: Ginsburg and her husband ... argued against a discriminatory statute before the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals

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  Barry Jenkins’ If Beale Street Could Talk Does James Baldwin Proud

  Sunday, December 23, 2018 at 4 a.m.

  Baldwin’s central story, dialogue and time-jumping narrative structure are all in place, but so, too, is a sumptuous visual style that serves to deepen the novelist’s themes of racial injustice and the powerful countering force of love