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Secret in Their Eyes

By: Mark Barber Billy Ray’s Secret in Their Eyes, an American remake of Juan José Campanella’s 2009 film of the same name, is eerily reminiscent, both thematically and atmospherically, of Denis Villeneuve’s thriller Prisoners, but without going “full-blown Hollywood” in the last act.  In other words, Secret in Their Eyes succeeds where Prisoners didn’t, and in ways that highlight the moral ambiguity of its political context.  Much like how Prisoners worked as a moderately effective…

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Love Is Strange

By: Addison Wylie There’s an aristocratic quality to Love Is Strange.  Everyone is nicely dressed in houses and restaurants that could all be rated five-stars.  Characters laugh at high-brow jokes and mild-mannerly talk about “the classics”.  Love Is Strange is a film so tidy, that you kind of want to scowl at it.  But, the film is far too sweet and performed with accomplishment to feel such resentment towards Ira Sachs’ film. Ben and George…