REVIEW: Cow [2022]

You’re free, babies. There are some real rocket surgeons working on the cattle farm in Andrea Arnold‘s Cow. After we watch #29 give birth for the second time, a farmer feeds her calf with a bottle of milk while she starts getting aggressively protective. We hear another voice ask whether she’s always been “that bad.” The feeder replies, “She never used to be. Old age.” Is it, though? Is it truly that difficult to fathom how maybe she’s grown protective because you’ve already separated her from five calves? Why wouldn’t…

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REVIEW: American Honey [2016]

“What about you? What’s your dream?” Welcome to our disenfranchised youth. That’s exactly what Andrea Arnold puts front and center with her latest film American Honey: miscreants getting high, road tripping, and lying their way to a few bucks meant to continue the nomadic journey’s unending party. Led by outside-the-box entrepreneur Krystal (Riley Keough), this ragtag bunch of urchins scooped from the side of the road go door-to-door selling magazine subscriptions—or as her number one seller Jake (Shia LaBeouf) says, “… themselves.” We don’t know if their customers will ever…

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