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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

Movie Review: “Cats” can’t be as bad as all that, can it?

Heavens, the venom hurled at “Cats,” one of the first big “tourist attraction” musicals, finally brought to the big screen and with a star-studded cast, no less. Long-planned, long-thought unfilmable, a hodgepodge of songs and feline choreography and feelings attached … Continue reading →

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Movie Review — “Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker,” the recycling of a Trilogy

It ends just as predictably as it began, a trilogy of “Star Wars” movies built on George Lucas’s Greatest Hits. J.J. Abrams produced three of the biggest blockbusters in screen history, and with “The Rise of Skywalker,” directed two of … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: “Never, Sometimes, Rarely, Always”

A teen pregnancy drama coming this March looks promising.

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Movie Preview: Amy Adams & Julianne Moore star in “The Woman in the Window”

An agoraphobia thriller in the “Rear Window” mold? Intrigued.

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Movie Preview: Christopher Nolan’s “Tenet”

Big break for Denzel’s son.

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Movie Review: The relentless ugliness of “Uncut Gems”

Howard Ratner is the kind of irritant that never lets up, never allows you a moment’s relief. The constant tirades on the phone, shamelessly ranted out in public, the empty threats, the impulse-control explosions of profanity in inappropriate places, the … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Gerwig’s “Little Women” stand tall

It’s been filmed so many times it’s like the “Dracula” of Young Adult lit, an American novel as beloved as those Jane Austen petticoat pieces the Brits adore. But Greta Gerwig’s version of “Little Women” does more than merely put … Continue reading →

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Netflixable? Sickly girl lets a horse “Rock My Heart”

Sometimes, feel-good stories come with subtitles. Except, of course, for the fact that “Rock My Heart” is on Netflix. You can hear it in any language you desire, should the original German — with subtitles — be a turn off. … Continue reading →

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Next screening? “Little Women”

Yes, it’s the “Dracula” of young adult lit, adapted for the screen more times than “Spider-Man.” But Greta Gerwig rounded up an impressive cast for this latest take on Louisa May Alcott’s enduring classic. Saoirse and Laura Dern and that … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: “Bombshell” takes us behind the scenes for Fox’s “War on Women”

A telling moment in “Bombshell,” the film account of the Fox News sexual harassment meltdown that took out founder Roger Ailes, star Bill O’Reilly and others, has rising star Megyn Kelly in the car, driving home through a toll booth … Continue reading →

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