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About Andrew Plimpton

Andrew Plimpton is a writer living in Western Massachusetts. His plays have been performed at The Tank in New York City; his fiction has appeared in Silo. He was a reader for The Paris Review from 2019 to 2021, and has written for Film Forward since 2018.

Miracle Fishing: Kidnapped Abroad

With a lot of help from friends, a family negotiates with their captive father's kidnappers in this incredibly suspenseful documentary.

By |March 24th, 2021|DVD/Streaming/On Demand, Top Picks|0 Comments

Quo Vadis, Aida?

As tragic, horrifying, and bracing as it should be.

By |March 12th, 2021|DVD/Streaming/On Demand, Top Picks, War|0 Comments

Boogie

A coming-of-age story and a sports drama, from the point of view of a Chinese American basketball prodigy.

By |March 4th, 2021|Sports, Teen|0 Comments

The Father

For most of the drama, Anthony Hopkins is at his very best.

By |February 26th, 2021|Family drama, Top Picks|0 Comments

Little Fish

A pandemic causes its victims to gradually lose their memory in this sci-fi romance.

By |February 17th, 2021|DVD/Streaming/On Demand, Sci-fi|0 Comments

Minari

If the skeleton of the family drama sounds somewhat familiar, the refreshing specificity of character and situation makes it feel new and unexpected.

By |February 11th, 2021|Family drama, Top Picks|0 Comments

The White Tiger

A strong film about the amorality that is required to succeed in an amoral world.

By |February 4th, 2021|Book adaptation, DVD/Streaming/On Demand|0 Comments

Notturno

A portrait of a turbulent region compiled from over three years of filming along the borderlands of Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, and Iraqi Kurdistan.

By |January 28th, 2021|Documentary, DVD/Streaming/On Demand|0 Comments

Pieces of a Woman

There is not a single weak performance here, with Vanessa Kirby as the clear standout.

By |January 14th, 2021|DVD/Streaming/On Demand, Family drama|0 Comments