Daily Archives: December 9, 2018

Preview, Elizabeth Banks raises a monster in “Brightburn”

“He’s not like us.” You don’t say. The frights from the scary kid this rural couple “found” come our way Memorial Day, when “Brightburn” reaches theaters.   

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Movie Review: Dafoe’s Van Gogh suffers, exults “At Eternity’s Gate”

Rarely has an actor’s “baggage” served him better in a role than Willem Dafoe’s has in bringing Vincent Van Gogh to the screen in “At Eternity’s Gate.” Soulful and wounded, testy and potentially dangerous — those are the hallmarks of … Continue reading

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Movie Review — Into the blurred murk of “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse”

  Yes, that’s how it’s supposed to look. And no, Sony Animation should not have let “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse” out its doors and onto big screens in this blurred, jerky, pixelated condition. No kidding, six minutes into it, I … Continue reading

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