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4 years ago
Mumblecore style films can be challenging if the story and characters aren’t strong enough, and writer/director James Vaughan‘s “Friends and Strangers” walks the line at a dangerously close pace. This loosely-structured, talky Australian i... Read the full review »
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4 years ago
I struggled a bit with “Really Good Rejects,” director Alice Gu’s thorough look at Los Angeles guitar craftsman Reuben Cox. Blessed with an instinct and intuition for creating stringed instruments, Cox has made a name for himself by building... Read the full review »
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4 years ago
Try as I might, it’s sometimes just not possible to appreciate a film for what it is versus what it could have been. Such is the case with “The Lost City,” a warmed-over, mediocre adventure / romance that is reckless with its promising premi... Read the full review »
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4 years ago
Based on the award-winning novel, “Better Nate Than Ever” is bursting with charming positivity that’s contagious. This sweet and funny film about pursuing your dreams is a fantasy for musical theater kids. Artistic types will find a lot to l... Read the full review »
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With its fairly decent Hollywood pedigree and promising premise, I had high hopes that “The Adam Project” wouldn’t be just another throwaway Netflix film. Even with an experienced action director (Shawn Levy) and a talented and charismatic c... Read the full review »
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4 years ago
Unabashedly corny, “Dakota” plays like a movie that’s tailor-made for audience heckling. With second-rate performances, choppy editing, and dialogue that is written at a 4th grade reading level, this film is lousy, even if it has its heart i... Read the full review »
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4 years ago
The documentary “Bad Axe” plays like a very personal home movie because that’s exactly what it is. A son (director David Siev) turns his camera on his Asian-American family during the start of the COVID pandemic lockdown, filming their every... Read the full review »
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4 years ago
First published in 1957, acclaimed author Patricia Highsmith’s novel “Deep Water” has been adapted for the screen by “Fatal Attraction” and “Indecent Proposal” director Adrian Lyne. It’s not a great book to screen translation (espe... Read the full review »
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4 years ago
The Bible is a sexist text with many disturbing, anti-woman passages that many believers choose to ignore. The bold, thought-provoking “Raquel 1:1” challenges this head on with a confrontational, creative script from writer / director Mariana... Read the full review »
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4 years ago
There’s a lot of truth to the writing and dialogue in “Pretty Problems,” a very funny indie comedy from director Kestrin Pantera. The story of a couple who are befriended by affluent strangers and agree to spend a weekend with them in wine c... Read the full review »
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4 years ago
Horror comedy “The Prank” doesn’t do a lot right. The script is unoriginal, the cast is unappealing, and the premise is uninteresting. The story of an overachiever Ben (Connor Kalopsis) who, after being threatened with a failing grade, cooks... Read the full review »
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4 years ago
The documentary “Your Friend, Memphis” is one of joy, hope, and sadness. Director David Zucker follows his subject Memphis DiAngelis, a young man with cerebral palsy, over the course of five years. It’s a highly personal project that capture... Read the full review »
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4 years ago
History, current events, and music are woven together in “Omoiyari: A Song Film by Kishi Bashi,” a beautiful documentary film about composer and songwriter Kishi Bashi (who co-directed with Justin Taylor Smith) and the work he’s doing on a n... Read the full review »
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It is rare that one can become completely enamored with a documentary film, but director Allison Otto‘s “The Thief Collector” grabbed be from the opening frame. This true story of a museum heist in the mid-1980s features an interesting topic... Read the full review »
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4 years ago
“To Leslie” is a sad but moving portrait of a single mother in Texas (Andrea Riseborough) suffering with an addiction to alcohol. Six years after winning $190,000 in the lottery, the money is gone, her friends and family have moved on, and Les... Read the full review »
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4 years ago
“Reno 911: the Hunt for QAnon” is a movie that should’ve (and could’ve) been so much better than it turned out to be. With the crackerjack comedy team behind the Central cult classic Reno 911!” (and for those OG fans from the early 90s,... Read the full review »
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4 years ago
For maximum enjoyment of “No Exit,” I highly recommend you dive in knowing as little as possible. Even if you’ve read Taylor Adams’ 2017 novel, the film will be a different experience because the story translates so well to the screen. Thi... Read the full review »
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4 years ago
Take “A.I.” and mix it with “Tree of Life” and you get “After Yang,” an extremely repetitive, slow moving film about loss, grief, and life. Adapted from a short story by Alexander Weinstein, director Kogonada stretches twenty minutes o... Read the full review »