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Jackie (2016)

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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War Dogs: Todd Phillips has in his hands a story that, even distilled to its most basic elements, it’s too

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Neruda: there are many ways to tell a story: one can be literal, sticking mostly to the facts, or one can

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Genius: Michael Grandage, more than telling the story of a particular friendship, is portraying the

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