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Thursday, October 3, 2024

Film Reviews: New Releases for Oct. 4

Joker: Folie à Deux, A Different Man, The Outrun, White Bird, Monster Summer, Girls Will Be Girls and more
Blink ** Documentary filmmaking is ultimately a kind of journalism, and it’s always frustrating to watch documentary filmmakers who seem to have decided ahead of time what the story is, even before all the reporting is done. The clearly-inspirational premise involves French-Canadian parents Édith Lemay and Seb Pelletier who, upon learning that three of their four children have retinitis pigmentosa—a genetic condition that will eventually result in near-total blindness—decide to take the family on a year-long adventure around the world to create memories of things they might not be able to see later.

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