Stories By Amanda Yam
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Reviews
Microbe and Gasoline | Review #1
June 29, 2016Whimsy with Measure: Gondry’s Reflection on Youth and Imagination There are certain expectations that come with a...
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Miles Ahead | Review
March 30, 2016Kinetic & Spirited: Debut Heavily Reliant on Cheadle’s Perf His raspy voice precedes, commanding the dark screen....
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The Walk | Review
October 3, 2015Large Spectacle: Hollywood’s Answer to Petit’s Infamous Le Coup A singular man with an impossible goal...
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Ten Thousand Saints | Review I
August 12, 2015East Village Ennui: Coming of Age Story Displaced, Too Hip For Own Good A coming of...
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Meru | Review
August 10, 2015Treacherous Journey to The Top Shows Unmeasured Determination At over 20,000 feet, the highest peak of...
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Big Significant Things | Review
July 24, 2015Eager Yet Flawed: Indie Darling is Safe-Guarded and Traditional Brian Reisberg‘s debut feature has many of the usual...
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Irrational Man | Review
July 16, 2015Tepid Contemplation: The Unraveling of a Mild Murder Plot For his 46th feature film, Irrational Man calls...
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What Happened, Miss Simone? | Review
June 24, 2015Writing on the Wall: Garbus Offers Compressed Portrait of Soul-Gospel-Jazz Queen Nina Simone, a prominent musician-turned-civil-rights-activist,...
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Disc Reviews
The Wolfpack | Review
June 15, 2015Voyeuristic & Bizarre: A Look Into a Litter of Brothers and Their World of Movies As an...
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The Reconstruction of William Zero | Review
April 17, 2015Less Than Zero: Bush’s Blend is a Well-intended but Exhaustive Piece Drama stimulated by an identity...