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About Roger Moore

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

Neflixable? “Enola Homes 3” Beats a Dead Horse

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

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

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”

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)

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”

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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Netflixable? “Little Brother” makes Cena Look Small

Netflix has made inroads in horror and begun to make a mark in prestige pcitures. But they cornered the market on teen rom-coms a while back. And now, years after signing Adam Sandler, his family and hangers-on, they’re going all … Continue reading

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Movie Review: Too Much Talk, Too Little Action — “Ip Man: Kung Fu Legend”

The storied, mythic and constantly fictionalized life of the martial artist who taught Bruce Lee his moves earns perhaps his dullest film outing in “Ip Man: Kung Fu Legend.” It’s not really the fault of star Yu-Hang (Dennis) To, who … Continue reading

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Netflixable? Schnabel’s Mad Monomania paints “In the Hand of Dante”

There’s a “just go with it” madness that is demanded of anyone who dives into the glorious — some will say wretched — excesses of “In the Hand of Dante.” A romantic thriller contrived out of history, great “lost” literature … Continue reading

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Movie Review: Bulimia’s a Drag in “Maddie’s Secret”

The first thing to know about “Maddie’s Secret” is that you have permission to laugh. Releasing it during Pride Month would tend to give one some doubt about that. Writer-director-star John Early’s melodrama may “play it straight.” But this satiric … Continue reading

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