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6 years ago
Although “Velvet Buzzsaw” has a crackerjack premise and one heck of a cinematic pedigree (from writer / director Dan Gilroy), it fails miserably. It is an irritating satire of a film that thinks is far more clever than it actually is, and it b... Read the full review »
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6 years ago
I truly believe there’s a great movie just waiting to jump out of “Alita: Battle Angel,” the cyberpunk action film based on Yukito Kishiro’s popular cult manga series. But it’s just not there yet. While the film feels as though it’s ma... Read the full review »
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6 years ago
When it comes to “What Men Want,” you’ve seen most (if not all) of it before. This gender-swapping comedy, loosely inspired by the Nancy Meyers’ 2000 movie “What Women Want,” flips the script so this time it’s a powerful businesswoma... Read the full review »
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6 years ago
The timeless legend of King Arthur is repurposed for a new generation in “The Kid Who Would Be King,” a rapid-paced, old-fashioned, throwback quest story that’s great for kids as well as adults. The film recalls the heyday of the PG-appropri... Read the full review »
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6 years ago
“Serenity” is a train wreck of a movie that’s not without its own unique charms. It’s wildly ridiculous but the bonkers absurdity is what makes it so riveting. You’ve probably never seen anything quite like this, a movie I can only descr... Read the full review »
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6 years ago
The fear of aging can sometimes feel crippling, but for Ed Hemsler (John Lithgow), getting old means getting prepared for an uncertain future. Ed is a self-proclaimed “prepper” who spends his days chatting online with fellow doomsdayers and st... Read the full review »
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6 years ago
Ho-hum. That was my reaction to “Fighting With My Family,” a run-of-the-mill sports story that feels more like an extended ad for the WWE than the warm-hearted project it strives to be. The film is based on the true story of female wrestler P... Read the full review »
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6 years ago
The tenderly funny yet sad bromance dramedy “Paddleton” gives a decidedly male perspective on friendship, mortality, and morality. This strange little movie about two misfit neighbors who embark on an emotional journey when one of them is diag... Read the full review »
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6 years ago
A barn and a breakup bring a struggling artist to Norway in “The Sunlit Night,” a draggy, slow moving mess based on the novel by Rebecca Dinerstein. The book doesn’t translate well on film and, as is the case with many book to screen adaptat... Read the full review »
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6 years ago
The theme of isolation may make for a good story, but it also makes for a dreadfully boring movie. So is the problem with “The Sharks,” a coming-of-age story that is too quiet for its own good. Comprised mostly of filler like long, pensive sta... Read the full review »
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6 years ago
Survival thriller meets creature feature in the bare-bones “Sweetheart,” director J.D. Dillard‘s follow-up to 2016’s mind-bending “Sleight.” This is a female-driven genre film with an unlikely hero, and it feels like a hybrid of “Clo... Read the full review »
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6 years ago
In 1926, Sister Aimee Semple McPherson (Anna Margaret Hollyman) was America’s most famous evangelist. Some believed she was a messenger of God, others a fraud. But when she vanished one day in plain sight, it caused quite a stir among her follow... Read the full review »
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6 years ago
Growing up sucks, especially when you’re in your thirties. Just ask polar opposite sisters Rachel (Hannah Pearl Utt) and Jackie (Jen Tullock), two siblings living with their eccentric playwright father (Mandy Patinkin) above a small theater spac... Read the full review »
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6 years ago
Sometimes a film can be a mess story-wise but is so well made and has something so interesting to say that it would be a crime not to applaud the effort. That is the case with “Paradise Hills,” the ambitious feature film directorial debut from... Read the full review »
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6 years ago
“Corporate Animals” falls into the category of one of the worst cinematic offenders of all: the unfunny comedy. This movie is not even mildly amusing nor entertaining, and nothing about it works. It becomes evident just two minutes in, as the... Read the full review »
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6 years ago
A talented filmmaker will often find they have no need for huge budgets or splashy special effects, and writer / director Paul Harrill‘s intensely gorgeous feature “Light From Light” demonstrates that even the smallest of stories can have a... Read the full review »
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6 years ago
Just as the wildly original “Anna and the Apocalypse” created its own holiday / musical branch of the zombie genre, “Little Monsters” forges a path into the new sector of the feel good movie about the undead. This unrestrained, hilarious e... Read the full review »
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6 years ago
At the risk of sounding cold hearted, the delicate, quiet little film “Photograph” fails to pack enough emotional punch to work as a successful love story. The film, written and directed by Ritesh Batra (“The Lunchbox”), is comprised of hi... Read the full review »
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6 years ago
I’m far from a prude, but the big “twist” in “The Death of Dick Long” proved too much for me to take. It’s not the actual cause of Dick’s death that bothered me, it’s that the film went too far by taking the dramatic route instead... Read the full review »
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6 years ago
Brutal. Painful. Angry. Unforgiving. Yes, writer / director Jennifer Kent‘s “The Nightingale” is all of these things. The story of a young Irish convict in Tasmania in the 1820s takes the classic revenge thriller and puts a powerful femi... Read the full review »