Daily Archives: October 24, 2025

Movie Review: A “Boxcutter” Dreams of his Big Hip Hop Break…in Toronto

An aspiring rapper pins all his hopes on a make-or-break meeting with a famous producer at a “secret” party that everybody knows about in “Boxcutter,” an amiable street-life dramedy set on the not-so-mean streets of Toronto. It’s a tale with … Continue reading

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Movie Preview: Helmsworth, Halle and Ruffalo, “Crime 101”

A Feb. thriller with at least one Scorsese touch. “Gimme Shelter” underscores this heist picture with Chris Hemsworth as a limo driver who knows muscle cars and famous McQueen crime pictures. Mark Ruffalo’s the cop chasing him. Barry Keoghan’s a … Continue reading

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Movie Review: “Springsteen” makes “Nebraska” — “Deliver Me from Nowhere”

Self-revealing, self-examining, self-mythologizing, self-indulgent and self-destructive, those are all phrases that can apply to Bruce Springsteen’s seminal, uncompromising and defiantly anti-commercial album “Nebraska.” It can’t be called the LP that “made him.” But this critically-acclaimed smash from 1982 underscored the … Continue reading

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