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Author Archives: Roger Moore
Movie Review: “Freeheld”
Critics often talk of “courageous” performances, historically those actors who play commit to giving their all to difficult characters — emotionally, by playing someone far beyond their experience, or physically — gaining weight, going bald, uglying up. Oscar winner Julianne … Continue reading
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Weekend Movies: “Sicario,””The Walk” and “The Martian” are winners
This may be the best opening weekend for movies in 2015…thus far. Winners are everywhere, must-see pictures litter the cineplex. Heavens. “The Martian” is Ridley Scott’s best-reviewed film in this millennium, his best sci-fi film since “Blade Runner.” And it’s … Continue reading
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Movie Review: “Sicario”
“Sicario” is a conventionally unconventional drug wars thriller, a well-cast, breathlessly executed peek into the heart of a Trumpian nightmare of Mexican cartels which kill at will on either side of an embattled border. This Denis Villeneuve (“Incendies,””Enemy”) film has … Continue reading
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Movie Review: “Finders Keepers,” y’all.
Sometimes it seems that rural white southern males are the last permissibly mockable group in these United States. Good’ol boys living all along the NASCAR belt drawl some bit of rural rube ridiculousness, and America giggles. And tunes in, when … Continue reading
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Movie Review: “The Walk”
It doesn’t take too much away from “The Walk,” the frothy new caper dramedy about the World Trade Center high-wire walk of Philippe Petit, to say it’s inferior to the delightful 2008 documentary, “Man on Wire,” about the same event. … Continue reading
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Movie Review: “The Martian”
Epic, majestic, breathtakingly detailed, thrilling — all words that have accurately described the film ouvre of Ridley Scott over the decades. When your directing resume includes “Blade Runner,” “Gladiator” and “Alien,” that’s a given. But “The Martian” manages a new … Continue reading
Box Office: Sandler’s “Hotel” is packed, “Intern” pays off, “Green Inferno” cracks the top ten
Nobody is going to confuse the first passable cartoon to hit theaters since “Shaun the Sheep” for an Adam Sandler comeback. Hopefully. But the established brand “Hotel Transylvania 2,” whose most generous reviews (like mine) used phrases like “not awful,” … Continue reading
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Weekend Movies — “Intern” doesn’t get hired, check out of “Hotel Transvlvania” again
It’s a great weekend…for panned movies opening wide in these United States. “Pawn Sacrifice” opens wider. So there’s that. But “The Intern” is a creaking, edge-free rom-com without the rom. Robert DeNiro is the stiff, nice senior citizen intern brought … Continue reading
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Weekend Movies — “Intern” doesn’t get hired, check out of “Hotel Transvlvania” again
It’s a great weekend…for panned movies opening wide in these United States. “Pawn Sacrifice” opens wider. so there’s that. But “The Intern” is a creaking, edge-free rom-com without the rom. Robert DeNiro is the stiff, nice senior citizen intern brought … Continue reading
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Movie Review: “Hotel Transylvania 2”
It has a little over 20 laughs — or at least mild chuckles. Most courtesy of quick-cut sight gags, pratfalls and the like. And the animation is sharper, deeper, more refined. So yeah, we can call “Hotel Transylvania 2” a … Continue reading
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