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The Secret Garden (2020)
Dreadful
The addition of all the supernatural hocus pocus is ridiculous, as is the creation of additional superfluous drama like the house fire. The flat, monotonic writing of Archibald Craven's character is almost cartoonish. Such a disappointing film considering the quality of the adult cast.
Aftershock (2022)
A searing look at black maternal mortality
The effects of systemic racism in obstetrics is examined both through the eyes of families of women who died post-partum due to poor prenatal care and overt neglect of patients' statements about problems pre- and post-delivery, and through the eyes of insightful obstetricians and midwives who are trying to break down the racism in software and distorted metric-drive decision-making for black mothers. Poverty combined with race may be two driving factors leading to poor care, but as one young woman points out, if it can happen to Serena Williams, it can happen to any black woman.
A United Kingdom (2016)
Botswana shines
I loved this film and it actually led to my photographer stepmother visiting Botswana out of interest in seeing the country Seretse helped build anew.