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Ghost Stories

(2018)

scare me, stretch my mind, take me back ·

From Bill Goodykoontz at Arizona Republic:

The best thing about Ghost Stories and there are a lot of good things is the confidence of its directors.

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Girlfriends (2018)

(2018)

de-stress me, find me fun, give me hope, make me laugh ·

From John Anderson at Wall Street Journal:

[Girlfriends] applies refreshing layers of honesty and genuine perplexity to the characters’ stories. Age is an engine of Girlfriends. But so is empathy.
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Hereditary

(2018)

grip me, scare me, stretch my mind ·

From Justin Chang at Los Angeles Times:

The sensationally gifted writer-director Ari Aster may tip his hat to the horror canon (Rosemary’s Baby, The Shining), but he has no interest in making a coy, winking exercise in horror pastiche. With breathtaking deliberation and quiet, unshowy mastery, he spins a devastating portrait of an American family in sudden, inexplicable decline.

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Horn from the Heart

(2018)

de-stress me, enlighten me, inspire me ·

From Joe Morgenstern at The Wall Street Journal:

It’s full of music that makes the case for its subject’s pre-eminence—he played with the intensity of a highest-category hurricane—and has an interesting slant on the issue of cultural appropriation; Butterfield was white, and the blues he played were, and remain, indelibly black.

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Howard

(2018)

enlighten me, inspire me, stretch my mind ·

From Nell Minnow at RogerEbert.com:

Not just a love letter to Ashman’s extraordinary talent, but those who will not give up until a story has all of their own imagination, heart, and empathy.

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In My Skin

(2018)

give me hope, make me laugh, take me back, tug my heartstrings ·

From Josh Bell at Slant:

In My Skin is a bitingly poignant, if cluttered, coming of age story

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