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“The Edge Of Seventeen” (Kelly Fremon Craig, USA 2016)

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A notch above other coming-of-age movies for its very accurate portray of the egocentric worldview that characterizes adolescence

Cast: Hailee Steinfeld, Haley Lu Richardson, Blake Jenner, Kyra Sedgwick, Woody Harrelson, Hayden Szeto, Alexander Calvert
Director: Kelly Fremon Craig
Writer: Kelly Fremon Craig
Cinematographer: Doug Emmett
Editor: Tracey Wadmore-Smith
Composer: Atli Örvarsson

“Hidden Figures” (Theodore Melfi, USA 2016)

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strong message

Cast: Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, Janelle Monae, Kevin Costner, Aldis Hodge, Kirsten Dunst, Glen Powell, Mahershala Ali, Jim Parsons, Olek Krupa
Director: Theodore Melfi
Writer: Margot Lee Shetterly (book by), Allison Schroeder, Theodore Melfi
Cinematographer: Mandy Walker
Editor: Peter Teschner
Composer: Benjamin Wallfisch, Pharrell Williams, Hans Zimmer

“La La Land” (Damien Chazelle, USA 2016)

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excellent music
weak script

No good movie can be made on a bad script!

Beloved reader, please DO NOT READ further! If you have seen the movie and enjoyed it – like everyone else seems to have – don’t read further, I might spoil your pleasure.

If you haven’t seen the movie, do like everybody else: enjoy it.

SPOILERS ahead!

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