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The most heartening thing about this, the latest from writer-director Mike Mills Beginners , , is that it shores up the notion that independent cinema in America may not be dead, or as close to death as we had suspected. We are currently emerging from a period wherein it was difficult not to feel overwhelmed by tent-poles and franchises and Marvel monsters and an endless abattoir of serials. But the recent past — yes, I know, everybody seems to be saying that was a banner year but let's try not to get too excited — has brought us a decent serving of low to mid-budget movies of the type we came to expect in the halcyon days of the s. They are intimate, personal stories, explorations of style, ambitious, expressive artwork that doesn't require a nine-figure budget or a legion of programmers to be effective. So it would be easy to assume that the era of widely-released independent movies was a bygone one, ground to dust by the wheels of commerce, like so many other things we were once hopeful about.
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