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Sarah Vincent
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Sarah G. Vincent is a freelance writer and film critic, who writes for Boston Movie News, Awards Watch, In Between Drafts, sarahgvincentviews.com and Cambridge Day. Her work has appeared in newspapers, law journals and review websites, and she has spoken on various panels and podcasts. She is originally from NYC, arrived in Cambridge in 1993 and was introduced to the world of repertory cinema while working at the Harvard Film Archives. Sarah holds an A.B. in a special concentration, History and Film Studies, at Harvard University and a J.D. at Harvard Law School. She was admitted to the Massachusetts Bar in 2001 and is an active member. You can follow her @vincensg on Twitter.
Movies reviews only
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Sorry/Not Sorry (2023) |
A 90-minute run time can feel like an excruciating eternity in the wrong hands, but Mones and Suh divide their film into seven parts and keep it punchy and entertaining. It helps that everyone involved in the controversy on both sides is famous - Boston Movie News
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| Posted Jul 11, 2024
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MaXXXine (2024) |
There is nothing worse than a great movie with a disappointing ending. What a waste of a good time! - Sarah G Vincent Views
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| Posted Jul 08, 2024
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Solo (2023) |
'Solo’ is one of the best movies released this year. It addresses common themes about bad boyfriends and mommy issues without feeling trite by setting it in a new context, a free and light queer world where the hate tree is not even visible. - Boston Movie News
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| Posted Jul 06, 2024
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Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person (2023) |
“Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person” is an unexpected delight about misfits finally embracing themselves and finding joy in each other without sacrificing the innate brutality of vampires. - Sarah G Vincent Views
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| Posted Jul 04, 2024
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Daddio (2023) |
Daddio is a rare mature film that perhaps overrates what it offers, but still succeeds at capturing a slice of life about how two people with little to nothing in common can share a sacred moment of understanding and appreciation for each other. - InBetweenDrafts
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| Posted Jun 30, 2024
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A Quiet Place: Day One (2024) |
“A Quiet Place: Day One” is fine, but the story and special effects are beneath the cast’s capabilities. - Sarah G Vincent Views
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| Posted Jun 30, 2024
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Kinds of Kindness (2024) |
Though intellectually inventive and provocative, it does drag at times. - Sarah G Vincent Views
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| Posted Jun 30, 2024
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I Am: Celine Dion (2024) |
Even if you are completely disinterested in Dion, if you are a human being who has not found a way to achieve immortality, “I Am: Celine Dion” is still for you. - Sarah G Vincent Views
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| Posted Jun 29, 2024
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Thelma (2024) |
June Squibb is the Tom Cruise of her generation, and “Thelma” will be a new cult classic that people will enjoy for decades to come. - Sarah G Vincent Views
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| Posted Jun 29, 2024
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The Bikeriders (2023) |
The engrossing performances makes “The Bikeriders” feel fresh, but the narrative is predictable. Even for someone who has not delved into the biker gang genre, it will feel familiar. It helps that the tone turns on a dime - Sarah G Vincent Views
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| Posted Jun 29, 2024
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The Cruz Brothers and Miss Malloy (1980) |
“The Cruz Brothers and Miss Malloy” is a haunting, bizarre film, which is a compliment. It depicts three brothers who are close and are arrested in development because of their past trauma, but find a way to be alive, individuals and together - Sarah G Vincent Views
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| Posted Jun 29, 2024
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The Exorcism (2024) |
If you ever face a situation where you must choose whether to watch The Exorcism or The Pope’s Exorcist, choose the latter. - InBetweenDrafts
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| Posted Jun 28, 2024
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Janet Planet (2023) |
the movie evokes the timeless aimlessness of summer for an old soul in a kid’s body with only adults for company. Add this masterpiece to a list of must-see films if you love understated independent films. - AwardsWatch
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| Posted Jun 28, 2024
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Waiting for Dalí (2023) |
It is such a colorful and vibrant film, and the cast’s willingness to do all the heavy lifting elevates the otherwise puzzling yet predictable film that wants to use a turbulent era for the setting of a feel-good, romantic film but ends up feeling random - Boston Movie News
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| Posted Jun 28, 2024
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Treasure (2024) |
While Treasure sells a pat idea that genocidal, generational trauma can be healed in a single road trip to the scene of the crime, people do not always watch movies for realism, but as part of aspirational wishful thinking. - InBetweenDrafts
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| Posted Jun 16, 2024
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Tuesday (2023) |
The inherent tension in “Tuesday” is how can you kill someone that you love more than yourself or allow them to die. Zora’s road trip with Tuesday makes her appreciate that death is a gift—the “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” reference is intentional. - Sarah G Vincent Views
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| Posted Jun 16, 2024
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Chick Fight (2020) |
Chick Fight is also one of those movies that allegedly preaches girl power, but feels suspiciously as if it actually hates women or the idea of women is completely alien. Why do women seem to lean towards owning coffee shops - Sarah G Vincent Views
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| Posted Jun 15, 2024
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Judas and the Black Messiah (2021) |
Kaluuya, Fishback, Thorne and Powell transcend the limitations of the script and infuse an emotional history and character development missing in the actual script. - Sarah G Vincent Views
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| Posted Jun 15, 2024
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The Devil All the Time (2020) |
please do not do a flashback of a scene that I already saw moments ago. A quick flash to remind us of what happened earlier is fine, but rewatching the entire scene feels repetitive and monotonous. It is not as if the scene was that good the first time - Sarah G Vincent Views
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| Posted Jun 15, 2024
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Alien (1979) |
Human beings mostly die in the order of how much they acquiesced to the company without complaint, and even the robot and alien are not immune. Only the rebel, Ripley, and Jonesy, a cat who is the embodiment of a being who is never subservient, survive. - AwardsWatch
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| Posted Jun 14, 2024
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Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989) |
The film seems to suggest that our traditional view of greatness in the contemporary US is virtually impossible, but it also democratizes what greatness can look like in a society like ours by elevating friendship, decency and good naturedness. - Sarah G Vincent Views
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| Posted Jun 14, 2024
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Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey (1991) |
It uses the Terminator franchise as a great jumping point for the shenanigans that create the momentum of the film, but it also tackles popular culture depictions of heaven and hell in counterintuitive ways that are not always played for laughs. - Sarah G Vincent Views
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| Posted Jun 14, 2024
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The Mattachine Family (2023) |
Tortorella is such a natural that it is easy to forget that Thomas is fictional. Whether he struggles from holding back tears to just putting his head on his hand, his performance feels organic and lived in as if it were indulgent, warm comfort food - Boston Movie News
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| Posted Jun 14, 2024
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Gaga Chromatica Ball (2024) |
preferred the first half because of its cinematic quality. The prelude and first act are the most impactful and seemed to pay homage to movies. The positioning of the dancers reaching up for Gaga as she is encased seemed visually like “Metropolis” (1927) - Sarah G Vincent Views
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| Posted Jun 14, 2024
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The Watchers (2024) |
The scenario also felt like a not to subtle dig at consumers of media. Cue Maddy from “Euphoria” asking, “Wait. Is this fucking play about us?” - Sarah G Vincent Views
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| Posted Jun 12, 2024
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Bill & Ted Face the Music (2020) |
I hate emotional manipulation, but it worked, and I felt something at the end of the film as music becomes the unifying force in the face of divisions such as time, country, race and gender. - Sarah G Vincent Views
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| Posted Jun 12, 2024
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Misbehaviour (2020) |
The narrative is inconsistent and never quite finds its rhythm as it toggles between characters and issues, but ultimately is pleasing enough and shows a deeper insight than most movies that tackle historical events and big issues. - Sarah G Vincent Views
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| Posted Jun 12, 2024
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Synchronic (2019) |
You should not watch Synchronic if you love animals. - Sarah G Vincent Views
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| Posted Jun 12, 2024
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78/52 (2017) |
Part of the joy of this documentary is watching these accomplished people fangirl over Psycho while showing their intellectual side. - Sarah G Vincent Views
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| Posted Jun 12, 2024
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Godzilla vs. Kong (2021) |
Kong revealed that to prepare for the role and get in shape for his return to the silver screen, he took some boxing and surfing lessons while maintaining a strict diet of fish - Sarah G Vincent Views
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| Posted Jun 12, 2024
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Gone Girl (2014) |
The film is a character study, an analysis of gender norms with a regressive, problematic underbelly that could easily be missed because the movie is so darn entertaining. - Sarah G Vincent Views
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| Posted Jun 12, 2024
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Mortal Kombat (2021) |
Mortal Kombat (2021) is the equivalent of making a film called The Olympics and only showed the qualifying rounds before actual Olympians are appointed. - Sarah G Vincent Views
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| Posted Jun 12, 2024
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The House That Jack Built (2018) |
If you enjoy serial killer movies, do not watch The House That Jack Built expecting traditional, satisfying fare. If you are a von Trier fan, he has done better work, and something in this film feels lacking. - Sarah G Vincent Views
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| Posted Jun 12, 2024
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Mary Shelley (2018) |
Fanning does an admirable job as the author, but I think that she had more to give than what was demanded. When an actor was on her level and gave her something to work with, she got interesting. - Sarah G Vincent Views
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| Posted Jun 12, 2024
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Garden State (2004) |
Garden State’s original sin is abandoning the original story of how to resolve the numbness of the beginning with tropes like stop taking your prescription medicine, socialize and live. Braff treats the central concept, why the protagonist is so numb - Sarah G Vincent Views
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| Posted Jun 12, 2024
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The Cured (2017) |
If you are sick of zombies and pandemics, please do not let that stop you from watching The Cured! In an audaciously nuanced feature film directorial debut, David Freyne creates a world set in Ireland where zombies can be cured, but they remember - Sarah G Vincent Views
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| Posted Jun 12, 2024
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The Invitation (2015) |
The Invitation wants the viewer to question the concept of appropriateness, which is why it set at a dinner party in an affluent home in a beautiful location. Dinner parties do not display normal human interactions but superimpose roles on ordinary people - Sarah G Vincent Views
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| Posted Jun 12, 2024
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Snow Cake (2006) |
Snow Cake advertises the autist as high functioning, but it was made in 2006 when a lot was still unknown about women with autism so while this movie is not Rain Man, it is not Tik Tok either so the definition of high function is going to vary - Sarah G Vincent Views
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| Posted Jun 12, 2024
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In the Heights (2021) |
While In the Heights deserves kudos for depicting authentic immigrant characters in an urban setting, its discomfort with exploring the natural consequences of their actions and demand for a happy ending undercut the film’s authenticity. - Sarah G Vincent Views
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| Posted Jun 12, 2024
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Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) (2021) |
“Summer of Soul” feels as if it is the wistful answer to a question that viewers had after watching “Black Panther” (2018), “Where is our Wakanda?” For a moment, it was Harlem. - Sarah G Vincent Views
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| Posted Jun 12, 2024
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Black Widow (2021) |
Black Widow” may be the most mumblecore entry in the franchise. Romanoff (how do they get assigned last names?) is the equivalent of the adult who just lost her job or got divorced then must return home to deal with some unresolved trauma - Sarah G Vincent Views
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| Posted Jun 12, 2024
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The Last Full Measure (2019) |
Stan’s job is to take a back seat to Bradley Whitford, William Hurt, Christopher Plummer, Diane Ladd, Samuel L. Jackson, Amy Madigan, Peter Fonda, Ed Harris and John Savage. - Sarah G Vincent Views
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| Posted Jun 12, 2024
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I Feel Pretty (2018) |
“I Feel Pretty” centers the ordinary woman, gives her the delusion, adds a dash of The Devil Wears Prada, and depicts her personal aesthetic in the vein of Reese Witherspoon in “Legally Blonde.” The premise feels familiar but is subversive. - Sarah G Vincent Views
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| Posted Jun 12, 2024
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Cyrus (2010) |
If you shied away from “Cyrus” because you were worried that Reilly was stuck in a rut, especially since it was released a few years after “Step Brothers” (2008), don’t be. It is so much better, far more relatable, and realistic. - Sarah G Vincent Views
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| Posted Jun 12, 2024
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Machete (2010) |
Rodriguez’s delightful denouement reclaims various Mexican stereotypes and combines them with recognizable humble professions for immigrants into a triumphant call to arms and a catharsis of violence against the people who hate them. - Sarah G Vincent Views
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| Posted Jun 12, 2024
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Machete Kills (2013) |
Vergara, whom most viewers are accustomed to seeing as the loveable, hot matriarch in “Modern Family,” steals the movie as the homicidal, man-hating, rage-filled whorehouse madam. She feels like the most authentic, Rodriguez character in the film - Sarah G Vincent Views
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| Posted Jun 12, 2024
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The China Hustle (2017) |
If documentaries could be classified according to a fictional genre, “The China Hustle” would be a horror film teasing a sequel now starring Ali Baba as the next Michael Myers. - Sarah G Vincent Views
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| Posted Jun 12, 2024
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The High Note (2020) |
Ross plays Grace as a woman graciously accepting backhanded compliments from people who will never be as great as her. It could have been an intriguing intersectional study on power. - Sarah G Vincent Views
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| Posted Jun 12, 2024
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Unforgettable (2017) |
“Unforgettable” is an entertaining, basic film that plays on women’s fear of playing by society’s rules, the ensuing anger when she is not rewarded, a woman’s fear of sacrificing some independence in exchange for accepting traditional roles - Sarah G Vincent Views
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| Posted Jun 12, 2024
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Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021) |
After “Avengers: Endgame” (2019), MCU movies have been adequate, but not exhilarating whereas “Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings” leaves you wanting more because of the humor, character development, poignant, dynamic trajectory of the story - Sarah G Vincent Views
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| Posted Jun 12, 2024
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