Daily Archives: February 1, 2019

Movie Review: The Best Foreign Language Oscar dark horse, “Capernaum,” is also the most moving film nominated

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“Capurnaum” may be the dark horse in the Best Foreign Language Film at this year’s Oscars. But Nadine Labaki‘s picaresque drama about the undocumented, a Cannes award winner, stands apart as the most moving film in the field. It’s built … Continue reading →

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Movie Review — The future has endless combat and no sex in “Alita: Battle Angel”

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One hour into “Alita: Battle Angel,” the Robert Rodriguez/James Cameron adaptation of a popular Japanese graphic novel series, the combat gets funny, the dialogue snappier and the trash talk flippant and smarter. We just have time to wonder “Where has … Continue reading →

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