THE BANKER – Review by Diane Carson

The Banker powerfully presents 1950s racism. In this truth-based narrative, blatant racism is, refreshingly, never sugar coated, always directly addressed, and leads to a question put to to the US Senate. “Why is it so important to you to exclude an entire race of people from the American dream?”

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SEBERG – Review by MaryAnn Johanson

The cat-and-mouse game that French New Wave icon Jean Seberg never realized she was playing with the FBI is the crux around which the confused Seberg pivots. By far the most compelling aspect of this limp, strangled attempt to merge the biopic with the paranoid thriller is the central performance by the always fascinating Kristen Stewart.

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AWFJ Movie of the Week, Jan. 26-Feb. 1: BLACK OR WHITE

Opening Jan. 30, AWFJ’s Movie of the Week is Black or White, which stars Kevin Costner as a grieving widower fighting for custody of his granddaughter, who he has helped to raise since birth. Read on…

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