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Everything I Wrote in 2019
Hello friends! A number of you might be getting this because you subscribed to email alerts from Marshall and the Movies way back when. Or maybe you’ve arrived from a social media platform. Either way,...
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The Top 10 Movies of 2019
176 movies later, and it’s pencils down on the year in film. Like always, I wait until the very last minute to file a top 10 list. I either want to spend time rewatching films to make sure I think they...
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Eleven?!
Hello again! As is becoming tradition on July 28 over the past few years, I blow the dust off this old site and post a little something again. It’s hard to believe Marshall and the Movies started 11...
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The 2020 Movies You’ll Be Hearing About In Awards Season
Around this time (ok, usually earlier), I start fielding requests for my favorite movies of the year as well as what’s going to be a big awards movie. As I find my tastes diverging a bit from what...
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LISTFUL THINKING: The Top 10 Movies of 2020
What a year, huh? I began 2020 with grand plans of jetting off to the Venice Film Festival in September and instead learned to love the virtual film festival. I traded New York’s repertory theaters...
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Sundance 2021, Days 1-2: No, Time to Die
People often refer to movies as an escape from life, but those who spend a good amount of their time steeped in them know that’s not quite the truth. We can never flee from the toughest conundrums of...
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Sundance 2021, Day 3: Expect the Expected
For all its promise and reputation for delivering a fresh burst of new, undiscovered cinematic energy at the beginning of each year, there is a certain pattern and predictability to Sundance. It’s...
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Sundance 2021, Days 4-5: What’s Up, Docs?
I guess the real place to start this dispatch is back on Day 3 when I screened Robin Wright’s “Land” (C- / ). Thanks to a local publicist, I got connected with a screener outside the official festival...
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Sundance 2021, Days 6-7: The Best (?) of the Rest of the Fest
In a normal year, Park City really begins to clear out after about day 5. It gets prohibitively expensive to stick around for diminishing returns, and the only people still around (to the best of my...
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Hi friends! I’m also on Substack now.
I can’t believe I overlooked informing the OG readers of Marshall and the Movies that, well, most of my self-published writing is now occurring elsewhere! After a year of writing a daily streaming...
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