Sumner Forbes

Sublime

By Sumner Forbes | July 2023

I can recognize as readily as the next person the need for all subsets of society to have the proper representation in…

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I can recognize as readily as the next person the need for all subsets of society to have the proper representation in cinema. I also fear that...

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Director Mark Harris' courtroom drama, Breaking Bounds, is interspersed with a romance teetering on the edge of failure. But more than anything,...

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PALM SPRINGS SHORTFEST 2023 REVIEW! We've seen it before: an angry white host on a political talk show is shown hyperbolically mourning the apocalyptic...

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Writer-director Georgia Oakley's Blue Jean shows that there are very few things more difficult than having to hide an integral part of oneself from a...

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Pietro Marcello, the celebrated director of 2019 hit Martin Eden, is back with his latest literary adaptation, Scarlet (L'envol). The previous film was...

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The concept of death can be tough for young children to process. The topic is often introduced when a grandparent passes away, leaving parents scrambling...

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"Gardening is a belief in the future." So says the title character at the center of writer-director Paul Schrader's Master Gardener, a portrait of a very...

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1976 was certainly a scary time to be in Chile. In Manuela Martelli's political thriller Chile '76, the writer-director focuses on a personal story of one...

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I drive a Volkswagen Golf. I'm about as far-removed as one can be from Southern truck culture. Still, I can always appreciate the allure of the South...

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I know I am not alone in thinking that adolescence was the toughest period of my life. What a mess those years can be! Strange emotions hit you from every...

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