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Selome Hailu

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Inbetween Girl (2021) 84% EDIT “Makino finds a way to uplift the young women she writes without any cloying girlboss idealism, and that level of nuance is what these Texan teens deserve.” – Austin Chronicle May 5, 2022 Full Review Zola (2020) 88% 3.5/5 EDIT “In Janicza Bravo's Zola, the tale is preserved -- repackaged as not just a comedic thriller, but as a way to explore social media as testimony, a source of perspectives we never had access to before.” – Austin Chronicle Jul 2, 2021 Full Review The Get Together (2020) 89% 3.5/5 EDIT “The college archetypes get a bit on-the-nose, and some lingering underwater scenes feel jammed in to match other coming-of-agers. But ultimately, the imperfections just feel cute.” – Austin Chronicle May 13, 2021 Full Review Language Lessons (2021) 96% 3.5/5 EDIT “The film gets heavy handed about it's premise sometimes, exaggerating the online-ness of it all with artificial glitches and voice modulations, but beyond that Language Lessons is gorgeously, uncomfortably real.” – Austin Chronicle Mar 25, 2021 Full Review Executive Order (2020) 88% EDIT “There's enough here to fill a miniseries or television show, and it's worth wondering how well that might have served the story. Still, all this is to say - Executive Order brings a lot to the table.” – Austin Chronicle Mar 25, 2021 Full Review The Money Order (1968) 100% 3.5/5 EDIT “It's an illuminating example of neorealist filmmaking and highly stylized comedy from a much needed non-Western perspective.” – Austin Chronicle Mar 6, 2021 Full Review 17 Blocks (2019) 100% 3.5/5 EDIT “Some moments would have benefitted from a more nuanced and creative soundtrack rather than trite piano tracks that tell you how to feel. Still, even when the direction is heavy-handed, the Sanfords are just too compelling to ignore.” – Austin Chronicle Feb 25, 2021 Full Review Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) (2021) 99% EDIT “The footage was shot by producer Hal Tulchin and amassed to about 40 hours in total, but sat dormant for decades... So by resurrecting the event, Questlove has made space for neglected memories.” – Austin Chronicle Feb 18, 2021 Full Review Test Pattern (2021) 96% 4/5 EDIT “Test Pattern proves the fault of more uncreative depictions of racial and gendered violence that exploit bare bodies and blood for shock value rather than depth and specificity.” – Austin Chronicle Feb 18, 2021 Full Review Cusp (2021) 86% EDIT “These stories are, of course, important. We need to hear and believe young girls about the daily horrors they live with. But how much detail is too much?” – Austin Chronicle Feb 18, 2021 Full Review Judas and the Black Messiah (2021) 96% 4.5/5 EDIT “For a film marked by so much bloodshed and death, Judas and the Black Messiah repeatedly takes the care to avert its gaze to the survivors, understanding them as victims, too.” – Austin Chronicle Feb 18, 2021 Full Review Two of Us (2019) 98% 3.5/5 EDIT “It's a romance as dreamy as any.” – Austin Chronicle Feb 6, 2021 Full Review Malcolm & Marie (2021) 57% 2.5/5 EDIT “Malcolm & Marie is less a coherent narrative than it is a beautified slideshow of ideas. These ideas are often compelling - but still, just ideas.” – Austin Chronicle Jan 29, 2021 Full Review Acasa, My Home (2020) 100% 4/5 EDIT “Rică, like Acasă, My Home itself, meditates on how we define a life worth choosing.” – Austin Chronicle Jan 22, 2021 Full Review Rock Camp: The Movie (2021) 94% 2.5/5 EDIT “Rock Camp will be worthwhile for fans of the rockers involved who like a feel-good watch, but it doesn't hold up beyond that.” – Austin Chronicle Jan 15, 2021 Full Review One Night in Miami (2020) 98% 4/5 EDIT “One Night in Miami offers humility and vulnerability to four men that history has rendered as giants.” – Austin Chronicle Jan 12, 2021 Full Review Sister of the Groom (2020) 50% 2/5 EDIT “Alicia Silverstone, I want so much more for you.” – Austin Chronicle Dec 18, 2020 Full Review 18 to Party (2019) 57% 3/5 EDIT “[It] needed more scrupulous eyes, but bears the palpable excitement of a new voice. It's worth the watch for indie lovers and coming-of-age aficionados, with just enough moments of true clarity to expect a more mature, balanced appeal in Roda's future.” – Austin Chronicle Nov 5, 2020 Full Review An Easy Girl (2019) 95% 2.5/5 EDIT “An Easy Girl doesn't give Sofia the impact that she could have; or rather, it doesn't allow Naïma to be impacted.” – Austin Chronicle Aug 27, 2020 Full Review Palm Springs (2020) 94% 4/5 EDIT “While Palm Springs does speak to the undying human hunger for love that all great rom-coms must, the existential premise necessitates darker questions. Even if you've found someone to endure the forces with, is that enough to make life worth it?” – Austin Chronicle Jul 11, 2020 Full Review
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