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Movie Critic, formerly with McClatchy-Tribune News Service, Orlando Sentinel, published in Spin Magazine, The World and now published here, Orlando Magazine, Autoweek Magazine

Movie Review: New Year’s Babies Seek Love “This Time Next Year”

Posted on July 9, 2026 by Roger Moore

Somebody had the good sense to cut half an hour off the London romance “This Time Next Year” for its Amazon streaming release. They just didn’t finish the job. It’s a sweet-and-scenic “Hallmark Channel” love story (chaste and slow and … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: A Jewish Summer Camp comedy with more “Oys” than Laughs — “The Floaters”

Posted on July 7, 2026 by Roger Moore

The summer camp comedy “The Floaters” makes its way to theaters after spending the past year making the rounds of the Jewish Film Festival circuit, where it probably should have remained. Foul-mouthed, cliched and inane, it isn’t funny and adds … Continue reading →

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Classic Film Review: Edwards and Sellers crash “The Party” in Hollywood (1968)

Posted on July 4, 2026 by Roger Moore

A wicked thought crossed my mind midway through re-watching the Blake Edwards/Peter Sellers farce “The Party,” one of three times the great British funnyman donned brownface to play Indian characters. What would have happened had Sellers, a comic legend and … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Cumming and Kin “Drive Back Home” in The Bad Ol’Days for Canada’s Gays

Posted on July 3, 2026 by Roger Moore

“Drive Back Home” is a road comedy with a queer history subtext and a hard, melodramatic flourish saved for its finale. It’s about a prodigal son and an estranged family that he fled the moment he was old enough to … Continue reading →

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Neflixable? “Enola Homes 3” Beats a Dead Horse

Posted on July 2, 2026 by Roger Moore

The bare minimum you expect from a sleuthing action comedy of the “Anybody Named Holmes” variety is that it hold your interest. Netflix’s “Enola Holmes 3” falls short of even that low bar. It’s got a wedding and a few … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Striving and Social Climbing, “Young Washington” takes the Shape of the Man He Became

Posted on July 2, 2026 by Roger Moore

Stately, staid and yet somehow still satisfying, “Young Washington” is a (mostly) by-the-book biography of the early life that shaped The Father of Our Country. It’s well-cast and handsomely mounted, and only falls into hagiography — rather obviously and clumsily … Continue reading →

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Documentary Review: “Chris and Martina: The Final Set” of a Love Match built on Sportsmanship

Posted on July 1, 2026 by Roger Moore

The recent news that former tennis champ Chris Evert’s cancer has returned for the third time adds more real-life poignance to a lovely new documentary about her and her longtime foe and friend, Martina Navratilova. “Chris & Martina: The Final … Continue reading →

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Documentary Review: Intentionally forgotten Lebanon — “Do You Love Me”

Posted on June 30, 2026 by Roger Moore

In Lebanon, an opening title tells us, “contemporary history is not taught in schools.” Basically, a half century of intermittent bloody unrest has been erased. The endless Israeli incursions and invasions? The civil war Israel triggered with the refugee dislocations … Continue reading →

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Classic Film Review: Jean-Pierre Melville is one of “Two Men in Manhattan” (1959)

Posted on June 29, 2026 by Roger Moore

Sometimes, the most accurate mirrors we face are held up to us by others. Consider the flood of viral stories about America and those visiting it during the World Cup — the German who sang our praises and found himself … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: “Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan: Ghost War”

Posted on June 28, 2026 by Roger Moore

These are not the days for “Patriot Games.” The world we live in’s realities long ago outstripped Tom Clancy’s post-Cold War fantasies of a righteous but compromised America and the West and the mythic “surgical strikes” it takes to keep … Continue reading →

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