Contributor Madeleine Seidel

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Review

The Inheritance

by Madeleine Seidel

This creative riff on Jean-Luc Godard’s La Chinoise explores the power of Black activism and community.

4
Anticipation
4
Enjoyment
4
In Retrospect
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Not Movies

Pretend It’s a City is a wry love letter to pre-pandemic New York

by Madeleine Seidel

Fran Lebowitz and Martin Scorsese sit down for a chat about all things NYC in this engaging Netflix docuseries.
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Review

Hillbilly Elegy

by Madeleine Seidel

Despite strong performances from Amy Adams and Glenn Close, this misjudged melodrama is an insult to those it claims to represent.

2
Anticipation
1
Enjoyment
1
In Retrospect
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How one woman captured 30 years’ worth of broadcast news

by Madeleine Seidel

A new documentary chronicles the life’s work of an unlikely modern American folk hero, Marion Stokes.
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Not Movies

The American South is the perfect setting for Mindhunter Season 2

by Madeleine Seidel

By focusing on the Atlanta Child Murders, Netflix’s crime drama taps into the complex social and political history of the region.
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How The Nightingale subverts the rape-revenge genre

by Madeleine Seidel

In reckoning with the horrors of colonialism, Jennifer Kent’s film implicates the audience in the graphic acts of sexual and racial violence it depicts.
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Southern film festivals in the age of the Alabama-Georgia abortion bans

by Madeleine Seidel

As film workers across America’s Deep South face an uncertain future, events like Sidewalk continue to show the way forward.

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