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Category Archive: Movies

Coverage of everything hitting the big screen, from big-budget blockbusters to independent arthouse fare.

Dark Waters Review: Fighting the Power to Mixed Results

Dark Waters
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Todd Haynes steps outside of his wheelhouse with a well-intentioned, but messy piece of narrative journalism.

Posted on November 20, 2019November 20, 2019 Movies

Box Office Report: “Ford v. Ferrari” Takes Pole Position

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Your dad’s favorite racing movie races to a $31.5 million opening weekend.

Posted on November 18, 2019November 17, 2019 Box Office ReportColumnsMovies

Marriage Story Review: What Becomes of the Broken-Hearted?

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Adam Driver, Scarlett Johansson & Noah Baumbach are all at their career best in a compassionate look at divorce.

Posted on November 16, 2019November 16, 2019 Movies

Ford v. Ferrari Review: High Octane Entertainment

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Matt Damon & Christian Bale are in first gear in the true story of the race to make the fastest car in the world.

Posted on November 16, 2019November 16, 2019 Movies

The Good Liar Review: Looking for Love in All The Con Places

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Helen Mirren and Ian McKellen elevate an otherwise warmed-over thriller as two people wrapped up in a late-life romance gone terribly wrong.

Posted on November 13, 2019November 13, 2019 Movies

Charlie’s Angels Review: Stylish Reboot is More of a McB, McB+

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Elizabeth Banks revives the girl-power action franchise with new blood and a solid if formulaic actioner.

Posted on November 12, 2019November 12, 2019 Movies

“American Son” Review: Racism for Dummies

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Netflix’s single-room stage play adaptation fails as an “important” look at race relations.

Posted on November 11, 2019November 10, 2019 Movies

“The Report” is a Mostly Successful Political Thriller

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Adam Driver delivers another powerful performance in Scott Z. Burns’ drama about C.I.A. torture in the Middle East.

Posted on November 11, 2019November 10, 2019 Movies

Goodbye to the Light: “Interview With the Vampire” at 25

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Remembering when Tom Cruise defied audience expectations in a campy, sumptuous adaptation of Anne Rice’s vampire soap opera.

Posted on November 11, 2019November 9, 2019 Movies

Every Sperm Is Sacred: The Meaning of “Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life”

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We look back on the anarchic joys of Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life, and how it shaped the comic sensibilities of a generation.

Posted on November 8, 2019November 8, 2019 Filmmaker of the MonthMovies

Midway Review: WWII Drama Lumbers With Clumsy Solemnity

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Roland Emmerich’s dull, misguided World War II epic tries to mask its Pacific-sized flaws in the cloak of patriotism.

Posted on November 7, 2019November 7, 2019 Movies

Honey Boy Review: Screenwriting as Therapy

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Shia LaBeouf puts elements of his own life into a tender script that struggles from detached direction.

Posted on November 6, 2019November 5, 2019 Movies

Doctor Sleep Review: Shining Sequel Overlooks The Original’s Strengths

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Mike Flanagan’s latest is equal parts Stephen King adaptation and Stanley Kubrick sequel, and can’t quite bridge the gap.

Posted on November 6, 2019November 6, 2019 Movies

Arctic Dogs Review: Turns Your Brain Into Mush

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Jeremy Renner moves from failed app to failed kid’s movie in this half-hearted CG kid’s flick.

Posted on November 3, 2019November 3, 2019 Movies

CIFF: Thomasin McKenzie on Nazis, Toxicity, and “Jojo Rabbit”

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The star of “Leave No Trace” and “Jojo Rabbit” sits down to talk about her career, her latest role, and finding humanity in inhumane times.

Posted on November 1, 2019November 4, 2019 CIFF 2019FestivalsMore of a Comment ReallyMoviesPodcasts

Greed Is Good (And God) in “The Wolf of Wall Street”

THE WOLF OF WALL STREET
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Martin Scorsese turned his camera to the grotesque excesses of the ultra-rich in The Wolf of Wall Street.

Posted on October 31, 2019October 29, 2019 Filmmaker of the MonthMovies

Scorsese Captures the Rolling Stones’ Energy in “Shine a Light”

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Martin Scorsese shone a light on The Rolling Stones for this rollicking concert film, two cultural titans at the top of their game.

Posted on October 30, 2019October 29, 2019 Filmmaker of the MonthMovies

“Shutter Island” Struggles Between Monsters and Good Men

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Martin Scorsese followed up The Departed with Shutter Island, a claustrophobic psychological thriller about the madness of loss.

Posted on October 30, 2019October 29, 2019 Filmmaker of the MonthMovies

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