Mr. Sousa has written marketing content for publications, websites, and corporations, including the New Yorker, ELLE, Vulture.com, and General Motors, for over 20 years. Immersed in old world culture and contemporary entertainment as a Portuguese-American dual citizen, and having studied the history of the arts at Rutgers University, he specializes in film and music criticism.
Whether its second season will end as charmingly as its first remains to be seen, but one thing is certain: Schumer’s journey to self-actualization makes for some genuinely funny moments.
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The preparation of food is so prevalent in the film that at times it feels more like an instructive tool for budding chefs de cuisine than a gently dramatic entertainment.
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One might expect the film’s themes to be explored by a Japanese director, yet ‘Perfect Days’ is directed by Wim Wenders, the German auteur of such classics as ‘Wings of Desire’ and ‘Paris, Texas.’
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The film aims to be a romance, an ‘issues’ picture, a snapshot of agrarian struggle, a philosophical inquiry, and a Western — all in one. Pleasingly, it succeeds in nearly every aspect.
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Like its lead character, who is part Indian and part of European descent, ‘The Settlers’ is divided between impulses: whether to entertain or educate, to digress or hone in, to expose atrocities or tactfully address them.
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Mixing comedy, drama, religious parable, and family saga, the 1993 movie is like one of the ‘miracle sausages’ mentioned by its characters: It can cure a lot of what ails casual film fans and cineastes alike.
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Watching the movie with an open and patient mind is essential to enjoying the many loopy pleasures, and the occasional longueur, during its three-and-a-quarter-hour runtime.
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The reviewer admits he was growing weary of scenes that substituted therapy sessions for drama, telling for showing, and self-consciousness for insight.
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It’s telling that the filmmakers use the wondrous ballad from the 1971 film, ‘Pure Imagination,’ as a refrain at the start of their movie and as a proper finale.
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As in a soap opera, which the movie’s tone emulates at times, some aspects don’t ring true, but you ignore them because the drama is so delicious.
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It’s her second time doing double duty in front of and behind the camera and, based on the modest pleasures of this new film, she should be given further chances to develop her directorial talent.
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Portraying pivotal years in the life of gay civil rights activist Bayard Rustin, played by Colman Domingo, the movie, for the most part, plays it safe.
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