Winning Reviews & Essays

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Searching For Meaning

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Tampopo: Exploring the Makeover Trope in Juzo Itami’s “Ramen Western”

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Dispelling Misconceptions and Shifting Culture

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Once Upon A Time in the West: How the West was Lost

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Be Gay, Watch Films

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Portrait of a Lady on Fire Tells Us Why Cottagecore is So Sapphic

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Where Mass Social Movements and Film Criticism Collide

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You Broke My Heart, Christopher

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I Lie to Children for Money

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Kwaidan and the Ghosts We Live with

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Creating the Conversation

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Optical Illusion

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Overcoming the Fear of Sharing Critical Thought

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Reviews Matter, but Does Diversity?

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Waves: What’s Real and What Isn’t

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Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood: Tarantino’s Hollywood Ending

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Booksmart: Outsmarting Stereotypes

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Booksmart: A Comedy I Actually (and Maybe Immensely) Enjoy

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First Man: Traversing Space and Sound