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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: Yorgos and Emma and Jesse, lost in “Bugonia”

Posted on October 31, 2025 by Roger Moore

The latest from the challenging and celebrated filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos might be his most on point satire yet. The director of “The Favorite” and “Poor Things” addresses the intellectual disconnect of modern discourse, the impatient and sometimes brusque way the … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Every Heist needs “The Mastermind” to Plan It

Posted on October 31, 2025 by Roger Moore

Grey skies, a “cool jazz” score and sketchy characters are selling points of “The Mastermind,” a ’70s period piece infused with the “grit” aficionados associate with the films of that benighted decade. It looks the way fall thrillers, even dryly … Continue reading →

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Movie preview: On the road in North Africa, Hunting a Missing Daughter — “Sirat”

Posted on October 30, 2025 by Roger Moore

A Cannes darling gets a November 14 “qualifying” release for awards season. Wider release early next year if awards rain down on this Spanish thriller  from Oliver Laxe.

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Movie Preview: Skarsgård, Pacino and Colman Domingo in Gus Van Sant’s “Dead Man’s Wire”

Posted on October 30, 2025 by Roger Moore

A hostage thriller based on a true story about a guy with a beef with a mortgage broker. Talk about timely. And an anti-hero we can all get behind. Myha’la and Cary Elwes also star in this ’70s period piece … Continue reading →

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Classic Film Review: Black and White Deadpan from the Golden Age of “Indie” — “Down by Law” (1986)

Posted on October 30, 2025 by Roger Moore

Memory always gets the last cut in editing any beloved classic film we embraced, way back when. I recall the totality of writer-director Jim Jarmusch’s work in his indie make-or-break years, the 1980s — the impromptu road trip to Florida … Continue reading →

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Have you donated to Wikipedia this year?

Posted on October 29, 2025 by Roger Moore

Wikipedia, the secondary/overview font of much of the “knowledge” available on the Internet, is 24 years old this year. Growing pains and legitimate complaints lodged against its “crowdsourced” biographies, histories, science and facts in its early years notwithstanding, it’s endured … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: A San Fran Romance with Wrenching — “Maintenance Required”

Posted on October 29, 2025 by Roger Moore

“Maintenance Required” is a gear-grinding rom-com that tries to blend car repair and romance between two good looking mechanics who meet on an online vintage Ford Bronco restoration forum. That’s not a terrible idea, nor is the notion that Charlotte … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: “What on God’s Flat Earth” is “Fackham Hall?”

Posted on October 29, 2025 by Roger Moore

Whatever you do, don’t say the title of this Britfarce of the Murder in the Drawing Room variety — they “watched the first two seasons of Downton Abbey” before filming it — quickly, and with a British accent? Thomasin McKenzie, … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: A Soap Opera’s Season of Intrigues Precede the Famous Painting “Auction”

Posted on October 28, 2025 by Roger Moore

What an immersive byzantine delight the French dramedy “Auction” turns out to be. The latest from writer-director Pascal Bonitzer (“The Young Karl Marx,” and he scripted “Gemma Bovery”) is a playfully malicious peek behind the scenes of big money art … Continue reading →

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Netflixable? “A Woman with No Filter” has some Grievances to Air

Posted on October 28, 2025 by Roger Moore

In the tradition of “A Woman Under the Influence,” “Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown,” “It’s My Turn,” and generations of women coming into their own in films comes “A Woman with No Filter,” a Brazilian comedy that … Continue reading →

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