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The Lost City of Z

The Lost City of Z: it’s completely appropriate that James Gray’s

The Founder: there is much to be said about the savage entrepreneurship of John Lee Hancock’s

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Lion: real stories made into movies have a knack for being too unlikely to be true; Garth Davis’ film

Jackie: Pablo Larraín made a cold, peculiar film; it doesn’t as much tell the

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Hidden Figures: Theodore Melfi’s film manages to tell a story that is

The Idol: no matter what is unique to this particular story, Hany Abu-Assad’s film is

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Hacksaw Ridge: war is hell, and there is an incredible number of stories that prove that point; Mel Gibson’s film,

Elis: this story, as Hugo Prata chose to tell it, is not a particularly interesting one; the

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Hands of Stone: the way Jonathan Jakubowicz chose to tell this story suggests that the main

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