Articles by Sara Clements

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  Inside Out Review: 'Language Lessons' Is More Than Just a COVID-Era Zoom Movie

  Directed by Natalie Morales

  PUBLISHED May 31, 2021

  The COVID-era movie feels like its own genre at this point. These are films set in lockdown, whose plots deal with the pandemic, shot in on...

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  'Land' Is a Story About the Power of Connection in an Isolated World

  Directed by Robin Wright

  PUBLISHED Mar 5, 2021

  In Land, Robin Wright foreshadows the acting masterclass that's to come from its very first scene. In the first glimpse of her character, E...

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  'Pixie' Is a Fun but Average Crime-Comedy Caper

  Directed by Barnaby Thompson

  PUBLISHED Mar 5, 2021

  Once upon a time in the west of Ireland, two men dawning pig and panda masks burst into a church to rob shotgun-wielding priests of their d...

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  'My Salinger Year' Is a Stylish Glimpse into a Bygone Era of Literature

  Directed by Philippe Falardeau

  PUBLISHED Mar 4, 2021

  What's instantly captivating about Canadian filmmaker Philippe Falardeau's My Salinger Year is its relatability. In one of the film's openi...

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  'I Care a Lot' Is Heartless and Horrible — in the Best Way

  Directed by J Blakeson

  PUBLISHED Feb 17, 2021

  "Look at you," begins a narration by Rosamund Pike at the opening of I Care a Lot. She tells us we're not good people because there's no su...

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  'Wonder Woman 1984' Overcomes Its Uneven Script with Pure '80s Escapism

  Directed by Patty Jenkins

  PUBLISHED Dec 21, 2020

  The year 1984 had many victories: the first solo transatlantic flight, the first untethered spacewalk, the identification of the AIDS virus...

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  'Ammonite' Is a Delicate, Tranquil Romance from Kate Winslet and Saoirse Ronan

  Directed by Francis Lee

  PUBLISHED Nov 16, 2020

  Ammonite is a type of coiled fossil, small in the centre and spiralling outward. These remains of extinct marine life symbolize the beginni...

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  'Proxima' Takes a Celestial Look at Motherhood

  Directed by Alice Winocour

  PUBLISHED Nov 6, 2020

  French director Alice Winocour's Proxima opens with a conversation between a mother and a daughter. For a film that I like to refer to as "...