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10 months ago
When they get the notion to remake an animated classic into a live action film, Disney is a well-oiled machine. They’ve found varying degrees of success and failure (“The Lion King,” “Cinderella,” “Pinocchio”) along the way, and thei... Read the full review »
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Carmen (2023)

Carmen (2023)

5 / 10
Attempting to modernize Georges Bizet’s classic 1875 musical by changing its setting to the border between the United States and Mexico turns out to be just as misguided as it sounds in Benjamin Millepied‘s “Carmen,” an erratic, hollow fil... Read the full review »
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“Down Low” is a dark comedy that plays like a series of successful hits and dreadful misses. A lot doesn’t work in director Rightor Doyle‘s film, but the parts that do are pretty damn hilarious. This sex-positive movie about an anonymous o... Read the full review »
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The legacy of Lady Bird Johnson is explored in detail in director Dawn Porter‘s “The Lady Bird Diaries,” an outstanding achievement in historical documentary storytelling. Porter’s meticulous film captures a time capsule in our nation’s... Read the full review »
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10 months ago
I am a big fan of the WNBA. I live in Las Vegas after all, home of the current WNBA World Champions (let’s go Aces)! You could say I hover right about the bullseye in the target audience for “Unfinished Business,” director Alison Klayman‘s... Read the full review »
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“From Black” is a too-familiar take on the conventional occult genre story. There’s very little here that feels fresh or out of the ordinary, and the end result is a hackneyed crime thriller turned demon horror movie that will please no one.... Read the full review »
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“Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret” is one of the first books I remember reading where I felt like the author really understood what it was like to be me. Judy Blume’s beloved book has been considered a rite of passage for many young gi... Read the full review »
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11 months ago
The first question I asked myself after leaving the theater after screening “Book Club: The Next Chapter” was “wait a minute, did this movie even have a script?” The story is so paper-thin that it seems like a long improv session between f... Read the full review »
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The stakes are high in “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3,” the (supposed) grand finale in the trilogy of the story of the misfit team of intergalactic mercenaries. With writer-director James Gunn at the helm, the movie has nary a misstep and fee... Read the full review »
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Sisu (2023)

Sisu (2023)

9 / 10
There’s a great deal of pleasure to be had in watching one man violently dispatch dozens of evil Nazis, and the WWII action film “Sisu” is a brutal, bloody delight. This midnight movie from writer-director Jalmari Helander embraces a comic b... Read the full review »
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11 months ago
Artists often use their work as an outlet to wrestle with their personal demons and the more haunted corners of their psyche, and “Beau is Afraid” is like a long, distressing therapy session for writer-director Ari Aster. His film about a fort... Read the full review »
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11 months ago
The philosophical and ethical debates raised by writer-director Franklin Ritch‘s “The Artifice Girl” are just a part of what makes the film such a provocative work of science fiction. This timely, thought-provoking story about what it means... Read the full review »
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11 months ago
This movie was screened at Panic Fest. Even if you’ve never picked up a Stephen King book, you’ve likely seen a movie that was based on one of his stories. After all, more than 50 directors have adapted the author’s works into more than 80... Read the full review »
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11 months ago
This movie was screened at Panic Fest. I really appreciate what co-writer and director Gary Huggins was trying to do with his outrageous horror-comedy “Kick Me.” Truly, I do. This story about a school counselor’s nightmare of a night has a... Read the full review »
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11 months ago
This movie was screened at Panic Fest. There is a lot of unpack and analyze in writer-director Laurence Vannicelli‘s “Mother, May I?,” a film that’s riddled with complexities and heavy themes. It’s a dark psychological drama mixed with... Read the full review »
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11 months ago
This movie was screened at Panic Fest. “Final Summer” is a mediocre homage to the classic psycho killer film “Friday the 13th.” Writer and director John Isberg (who is obviously a genre fan) seems more obsessed with jump scares and kills... Read the full review »
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11 months ago
This movie was screened at Panic Fest. Let’s start at the top when talking about “End Zone 2,” billed as the long-awaited sequel to the 1965 horror film “End Zone.” The history of these films is completely fabricated. There wasn’t an... Read the full review »