CARLOS SOUSA

CARLOS SOUSA

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Carlos Sousa is a Movie Reviewer for The New York Sun.

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Fourth Season of ‘The Bear’ Off to a Sluggish, Sentimental Start 

While the show hasn’t exactly ‘jumped the shark’ into awful territory, the fourth season continues a dismaying trend begun in the third — namely a cluttered style substituting for thematic and narrative stagnation.

Via FX
Culture

Documentary ‘Afternoons of Solitude’ Examines the Horrors, and Honor, of Bullfighting

A sport for some, a spectacle for others, and a moral travesty for many, the tradition of killing bulls in a ringed amphitheater becomes, in the hands of the director, an approximation of a slasher movie.

Via Grasshopper Film
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The Heavy-Handedness of ‘Hot Milk’ Turns the Psychodrama Into Something of a Hot Mess

What stands out the most about the film are its performances, especially that of the young lead, Emma Mackey as Sofia, who more than holds her own beside an Irish acting titan, Fiona Shaw, as mother Rose.

Via Nikos Nikolopoulos and IFC Films
Culture

Kathleen Chalfant Lends Indie Film ‘Familiar Touch’ Gravity and Grace

The actress says she hoped to honor a friend who has dementia through her performance. Her consummate acting stands as the ultimate tribute to both her friend and others experiencing memory impairment.

Via Music Box Films
Culture

Documentary on Astronaut Sally Ride Goes Well Beyond the Public Life of a National Hero

Despite being the most famous person on Earth for a while in 1983, when she flew on the space shuttle Challenger’s second mission, Ride was an intensely private individual.

NASA
Culture

‘Meeting with Pol Pot’ Brings Together Fact, Fiction, and Figurines for a Look at Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge

Director Rithy Panh includes elements culled from years of research as well as from his own experiences as an adolescent interned at Khmer Rouge ‘rehabilitation’ camps.

Via Strand Releasing
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