Maudie (2017)
Resembling Jeff Nichols's Loving and Martin Provost's Séraphine, Maudie is a magnificent film about the triumph of love over hardship and poverty in the lives of outcasts.
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Dunkirk (2017)
Nolan's latest is high on noise, chaos, and anxiety, and low on poetry. But it provides a necessary corrective to the dangerous machismo of most war films.
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A Ghost Story (2017)
David Lowery's second movie about a somewhat-invisible character is a lot more mysterious... perhaps to a fault.
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Don’t Think Twice (2016)
Improv comedy is a demanding art. Making a movie about an improv team — one that is both dramatic and funny — that's even more challenging. Mike Birbiglia succeeds!
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My Box of 64: the new Looking Closer audio journal!
In which I launch the new LookingCloser.org audio journal. Take your first step into a larger world... of creativity, conversation, and community!
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Song to Song (2017)
The latest Terrence Malick pageant of glamorous lovers and their interior-monologues meanders into monotony.
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Q&O: What should I see this week?
It's the post-Oscar-season slump, when studios typically dump their trash into theaters. If I have an itch to go to the movies, what's actually worth seeing?
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Looking Closer with Jeffrey Overstreet
(now the ears of my ears awake andnow the eyes of my eyes are opened)
– e. e. cummings, “i thank You God for most this amazing”