FAT CITY

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John Huston's 1972 boxing drama, based on screenwriter Leonard Gardner's novel, is a bruiser. 

"Fat City" fits right alongside "Night Moves," "Atlantic City" and "The King of Marvin Gardens" for its bleak depiction of a '70s era America falling apart at the seams.

No one has any money.

Romance is a down and dirty business.

Boxing serves as an apt metaphor about fighting for survival under Capitalism with few resources or any real sense of hope.

Stacey Keach, Jeff Bridges, and Susan Tyrrell dish out the pain.

CODA

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This tearjerker rolls deep.

"CODA" (child of deaf adults) hits all the right notes.

Communication is the key for CODA's family of fishers.

Sex is treated as a normal thing for the once in American Cinema. 

Refreshing.

Emilia Jones gives a fierce performance as a hopeful young singer with a golden tone.

Jones's worthy co-actors (Troy Kotsur, Marlee Matlin, Daniel Durant, and Eugenio Derbez) pull their weight.

Wow.

If your heart's not on your sleeve, it's probably in the wrong place.

Rated PG-13. 111 mins. 

THE BANKER

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Entertaining stuff of legend.

Anthony Mackie, Samuel L. Jackson, and Nicholas Hoult work their magic as a trio of Los Angeles real estate entrepreneurs who get in over their heads when they expand into bank-owning in Texas.

"Inspired by true events," and real people.

"The Banker" achieves its worthy goal of shining light on economic subjugation by the [white] Man, as executed through all means of public and private reality in America.