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Daily Archives: April 11, 2025
The One Thing “Drop” and “The Amateur” have in common? The “Saab” Getaway
Maybe you’ve got to be a car guy-or-pronoun-of-your-choice to notice it. But Thursday afternoon, I couldn’t help but notice that the first-date/widowed mom under threat who’s got to make a dash home to save her kid and her babysitting kid … Continue reading
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Movie Review: A First Date Dominated by a Cell Phone and a Stranger’s “Drop”
A tony, high-rise restaurant filled with potential suspects, any one of whom might “airdrop” the threats and blackmailed instructions for a murder onto our shocked and frantic heroine’s cell phone, is the setting and plot of “Drop,” a middling horror … Continue reading
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Movie Review: Malek schemes and turns the screws as “The Amateur”
A good cast and a clever variation of the man with “particular skills” revenge thriller formula make “The Amateur” an often entertaining slice of spy games hokum. Rami Malek stars as a CIA crypto analayst and tinkerer who becomes obsessed … Continue reading
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Movie Review: Modern “Warfare,” up close and impersonal
The big selling point of “Warfare” is its recreation of the “reality” of combat in the Middle East by a former Navy SEAL who was there. But there have been scores of documentaries made by embedded filmmakers who detailed the … Continue reading
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Tagged alex-garland, film, movie, ray-mendoza, warfare, will-poulter
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