Sleeper Awakened

WITHOUT FILM, SOMETHING SLEEPS INSIDE US AND SELDOM AWAKENS. THE SLEEPER MUST AWAKEN.

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CYRANO (2021)

January 20, 2022 by Jacob Nelson in 2021, 6, C, DRAMA, MUSICAL, ROMANCE, Oscars 2022

“I don’t really dig on musicals but this was good overall”

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Peter Dinklage, Haley Bennett, Kelvin Harrison Jr., Ben Mendelsohn, Joe Wright, Bashir Salahuddin, Monica Dolan, Glen Hansard
2021, 6, C, DRAMA, MUSICAL, ROMANCE, Oscars 2022
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HILLBILLY ELEGY (2020)

December 02, 2020 by Jacob Nelson in 2020, 4, DRAMA, H, Oscars 2021

“not enjoyable, enriching, or a satisfactorily detailed tale”

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Ron Howard, Amy Adams, Glenn Close, Gabriel Basso, Haley Bennett, Freida Pinto, Owen Asztalos
2020, 4, DRAMA, H, Oscars 2021
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SWALLOW (2020)

October 02, 2020 by Jacob Nelson in 2020, 6, DRAMA, THRILLER, S

“A modern young June Cleaver lost in the swallowing void of upper crust emptiness”

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Carlo Mirabella-Davis, Haley Bennett, Austin Stowell, Denis O'Hare, Elizabeth Marvel, David Rasche
2020, 6, DRAMA, THRILLER, S
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THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN (2016)

October 21, 2016 by Jacob Nelson in 2016, 4, ACTION, M, WESTERN
"Palatable enough to choke down, but a sumptuous Western feast to rival its forebears or genre compadres it was not"
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October 21, 2016 /Jacob Nelson /Source
Antoine Fuqua, Denzel Washington, Chris Pratt, Ethan Hawke, Vincent D'Onofrio, Byung-hun Lee, Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, Haley Bennett, Peter Sarsgaard, Luke Grimes, Matt Bomer
2016, 4, ACTION, M, WESTERN
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HARDCORE HENRY (2015)

April 16, 2016 by Jacob Nelson in 2015, 3, ACTION, H, SCIENCE FICTION
"An inventive idea for a film that vacillates between enthusiastic engagement and tedious banality"
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Ilya Naishuller, Sharlto Copley, Tim Roth, Haley Bennett
2015, 3, ACTION, H, SCIENCE FICTION
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