The Long Walk Review | Flickreel
The characters in The Long Walk aren’t in combat, but it plays like a war picture. This isn’t surprising, as Stephen King started writing the source material during the Vietnam War, although the book wasn’t published until after it ended.…
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Hulu’s Emmy-Nominated Comedy Mystery Series Remains at the Top of Its Game
How long can a good thing last? Is home a place, a group of people, or perhaps both? These are some of the questions lying at the heart of Only Murders in the Building as it returns for its fifth…
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Channing Tatum Shines In Absurd True Story
True stories that get turned into movies often seem unbelievable — hence why they make such good movies — but the tale behind Roofman is truly something that sounds so absurd, I myself might not have believed it all had…
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Spike and Denzel Deliver Don’t Disappoint
From the visionary mind of Spike Lee comes Highest 2 Lowest, a modern reimagining of Akira Kurosawa’s High and Low. Set in New York City, the story follows David King, a powerful music mogul whose world unravels when a kidnapping…
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‘The Choral’ Review: Ralph Fiennes Gives an Amazing Performance in an Uneven WWI Story
The Choral takes place in 1916 in a quaint little town in Yorkshire, England. World War I is raging, and with the dwindling number of men in the small town of Ramsden, the local choral society must recruit from the…
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Dwayne Johnson Will Bring You To Tears In Benny Safdie’s Solo Directorial Debut [Venice]
One would not imagine needing a tissue at the final holding card of a Benny Safdie martial arts movie starring Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson in a heavy layer of prosthetics and shaggy toupée. And yet, “The Smashing Machine” beautifully concludes…
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Splitsville Review | Flickreel
Do open relationships ever work? The answer is “yes” and “no” in Michael Angelo Covino’s comedy, Splitsville. At first, the film makes open marriage look easy. We quickly find that marriage is never easy, especially when you bring a third,…
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‘It Was Just an Accident’ Review: One of Cinema’s Most Daring Directors Might’ve Just Made His Masterpiece
Few filmmakers have given as much to make the films they want as Jafar Panahi. The writer and director has gone to jail twice for his films, he’s tried smuggling his movies out of his home in Iran, he’s gone…
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America Ferrera & Matthew McConaughey Go On A Harrowing Journey In Occasionally Nail-Biting True Story Drama
When it comes to true story-inspired movies, there’s a responsibility tied to them from the start. Some of these movies become even more harrowing because they’re still relevant today — it’s difficult to watch Paul Greengrass’ The Lost Bus, which…
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Simmers with Tension but Lacks Lasting Impact
Ron Howard’s Eden arrives with the weight of both history and myth on its shoulders. Based on the true story of eccentric European settlers who ventured to the Galápagos Islands after World War I in search of reinvention, the film…
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‘The Smashing Machine’ Review: A Colossal Performance by Dwayne Johnson Rises Above Tame Storytelling
Biopics are a surefire way into the hearts of audiences—specifically, those of awards voters; this has been the case for eons, it seems, and the pattern still holds strong. From flicks like Oppenheimer, Gandhi, Lawrence of Arabia, and Schindler's List,…
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Austin Butler Leads Darren Aronofsky’s Very-‘90s-Aronofsky-Style Thriller
New York filmmaker Darren Aronofsky may occasionally make epic and fantastical films, considering the quest for everlasting life (“The Fountain”), or the religious tensions of grave sins and compassionate forgiveness (“Noah”). Still, his heart is never far away from Coney…
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