Sam Mendes’ Film Is a Mishmash of Too Many Ideas
This review was originally part of our coverage for the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival. Ever since the beginning of film, it seems like we’ve had movies about the power of movies. From Sullivan’s Travels to Belfast, there’s no shortage…
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Noah Baumbach’s Latest Is Messy, Tedious Drama
Home Movie Reviews White Noise Review: Noah Baumbach's Latest Is Messy, Tedious Drama [Middleburg] Bogged down by uneven plotting & genre changes, White Noise loses itself in the chaos of what it's trying to say and fails to become fully…
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Nuanced Apple TV Drama Gives Charlie Hunnam A Rich Acting Platform
Apple TV just doesn’t seem to care as much as the others about the bottom line. They’re willing to drop a small fortune on shows that simply aren’t designed to break out in a way that would attract a mass…
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One of the Best Adaptations of Tale
The world doesn’t need any more Pinocchio stories. Sorry everyone, we’re all full up. While Carlo Collodi’s story of the woodcarver Geppetto and his wooden boy come to life have led to some great adaptations (Disney’s 1940 Pinocchio), and some…
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The Biblical Is Made Brutal
Though the Christmas season comes every year, there regrettably aren’t a lot of holiday horror movies out there. Thus, whenever there is the rare occasion where some new ones come out, they stand out just based on their mere existence.…
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I Wanna Dance With Somebody
The boundaries between an artist’s life story and ornate tombstone shatter in the moving Whitney Houston biopic I Wanna Dance With Somebody by director Kasi Lemmons. Written by Anthony McCarten, it begins in 1983 in a New Jersey church where a young…
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Carey Mulligan & Zoe Kazan Expose The Weinstein #MeToo Story In A ‘Spotlight’-Esque Procedural [NYFF]
If and when they choose to speak out about it, survivors of sexual assault each find their own ways of describing their harrowing memories of the incident that victimized them. Going into survival mode, however, is perhaps one experience several…
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Gripping Legal Drama Succeeds On All Fronts
Argentina, 1985 is a deceptively clever bit of filmmaking that, as long as people are willing to traverse that one-inch barrier of subtitles, should be as embraced by casual moviegoers as seasoned cinephiles. It is a based-on-a-true-story legal drama that…
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The Grinch Stole the Fun From This Horror Flick
The Mean One is the horror-movie reimagining of Dr. Seuss’s How the Grinch Stole Christmas, told from the point of view of Cindy Lou Who as an adult. Sounds like a wacky, wonky, fractured fairytale, right? The film starts off…
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Puss in Boots: The Last Wish Review: A Purr-fect Comeback
It would be fair to say that DreamWorks Animation is not the juggernaut that it used to be. From the early 2000s up until the early 2010s, the animation studio has given audiences true classics in the medium including the…
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‘Halloween Ends’: Pretty Please? Promise? [Review]
If there’s a lesson to be learned from David Gordon Green’s trilogy of “Halloween” legacy-quels, it’s to quit while you’re ahead. His 2018 “Halloween” (a direct sequel to the original 1978 masterpiece and a ret-con of its many, many follow-ups) was a surprisingly…
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Burnzy’s Last Call – Directors Cut
In the mid-90s, Michael de Avila’s feature film, Burnzy’s Last Call, was a staple of the Sundance Channel and its exclusivity deal with Blockbuster Video. Now whittled down to one last Blockbuster, de Avila’s movie was seemingly lost forever until he…
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