Tag: andrea riseborough
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Sundance Review: ‘Burden’, Race Drama Misfires Despite Powerful Performances
Nowadays the KKK aren’t dressed in hoods burning torches on front lawns; they’re in boardrooms and college universities carrying tiki torches. So Andrew Heckler’s comically overwrought drama Burden, which is set in 1996, feels old fashioned right from jump street. And given the real-world events it depicts some may be willing to forgive that, certainly…
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Sundance Review: ‘Mandy’ Starring Nicolas Cage And Andrea Riseborough
All due respect to the many Nicolas Cage movies that find him going unhinged, they’ve got nothing on Mandy. This deranged horror/revenge thriller from Panos Cosmatos, the director behind the bizarre, cultish Beyond the Black Rainbow, will appeal to fans of the filmmaker and of Cage, with everyone bursting into applause each time the actor lost…