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Indie Memphis Film Festival 2020: AMERICAN THIEF
Indie Memphis Film Festival 2020: AMERICAN THIEF

While it boasts gorgeous cinematography and framing, American Thief fails to find cohesion in its message and in its narrative.

THE GREAT HACK: A Call To Arms To Fight For Your Data
THE GREAT HACK: A Call To Arms To Fight For Your Data

While it’s not the best made documentary of the year, The Great Hack is the most important documentary you’ll watch all year.

ASSASSINATION NATION: An Ugly Film For Ugly Times

A hard pill to swallow, Assassination Nation is a blunt, antagonistic, but masterful film, guided by a director who can so easily weave in between political horror, social injustice, dark comedy, and teen comedy.

ANONYMOUS: Anarchy & Adolescence
ANONYMOUS: Anarchy & Adolescence

Anonymous is a film based on computer hacking, yet, with a less than subtle focus, it feels much like a tamer version of the show Mr. Robot.

Blackhat
BLACKHAT: A Big-Budget Glitch

Although many are still reeling from the aftershocks of the Sony hacking scandal, the growth of the cybercrime era had actually reached red alert long before the North Koreans. It is quite frightening to imagine how a person could be as deadly as a nuclear weapon with just one click of a keyboard, and it remains a problem unresolved by international governments. As always, Hollywood’s part on this is to jump on the bandwagon, establishing a new genre of its own with collective bits of movie magic in order to turn in easy money for film studios.