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Bacurau (2019) by The Critical Movie Critics

Movie Review: Bacurau (2019)

Howard Schumann
Movie Reviews
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October 24, 2019

You cannot find Bacurau on any map of Brazil. That is because the town is fictional. The problem is that the residents of this small community in the northeast corner of Brazil can no longer find their town on Google Maps, or any GPS system either. Other strange things soon begin happening in Bacurau, winner…

Aquarius (2016) by The Critical Movie Critics

Movie Review: Aquarius (2016)

Howard Schumann
Movie Reviews
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November 27, 2016

In “Neighboring Sounds,” Brazilian director Kleber Mendonça Filho’s first feature, the focus is on the anxiety that grips a middle-class neighborhood in Recife (Brazil’s fifth largest city), that has residents so fearful of their safety that they hire security guards to protect their buildings. Also set in Recife, Mendonça Filho’s Aquarius narrows its focus to…

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