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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: The Peter Pan who would be “The King of Pop” — “Michael”

Posted on May 9, 2026 by Roger Moore

Most reviews are in and the furor has abated a bit even as Spike Lee has weighed in on the “Elephant in the Room” missing from the new “Michael” Jackson biopic by Antoine Fuqua. But fans are still showing up … Continue reading →

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Series Review: A “Grand(ish) Tour” returns… as a “clip show”

Posted on May 9, 2026 by Roger Moore

We all knew, or perhaps hoped, it would come to this. Richard Hammond even joked about it on their “farewell” program — “We don’t have to end up in the same old folks’ home, do we?” Our three blokey blokes, … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Same ol’ “Mortal Kombat,” but Urban adds a little Humor — “Mortal Kombat II”

Posted on May 8, 2026 by Roger Moore

Video game fans seem to never tire of film adaptations of beloved big screen throwbacks to their misspent youth. The movies are often plotless, just collections of quips and a parade of indifferently tied-together scenes with this or that beloved … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: “The Sheep Detectives” hunt for Suspects when their Shepherd is Offed

Posted on May 8, 2026 by Roger Moore

I can’t say much for the plot of “The Sheep Detecives,” a children’s murder mystery about talking, crime-solving sheep from those sheep-and-murder mad Brits. The “murder mystery” isn’t particularly mysterious and its solution leaves a lot to be desired. And … Continue reading →

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Netflixable? The “Son-in-Law” — His Corrupt Rise and Fall

Posted on May 5, 2026 by Roger Moore

Movies like “Son-in-Law” force the viewer to ponder the difference between “confused” and “confusing” narratives. Critics use “confusing” when we’re willing to give the filmmakers the benefit of the doubt about tangled and unconventional plotting. “Confused” puts the blame squarely … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: A Period Piece as Dated as its Period — “The Choral”

Posted on May 4, 2026 by Roger Moore

The writing and directing duo who brought “The Madness of King George (The Madness of George III),” “The History Boys” and “The Lady in the Van” first to the London stage, and then to the screen skip the whole West … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: A Stand-up Comic’s last “line” of defense — “Is This Thing On?”

Posted on May 4, 2026 by Roger Moore

The trailers to “Is This Thing On?” had me hyped to catch it during its awards season run. Will Arnett, one of the funniest actors to hold a SAG card, playing a midlife crisis character who copes by trying his … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: A Romantic Melodrama in a Minor Key — “Two Pianos”

Posted on May 3, 2026 by Roger Moore

The great ones make it look effortless, with their mere presence in a role affirming the story’s unimpeachable reality. Charlotte Rampling started her career in the ’60s, came into her own in the ’70s (“Farewell, My Lovely”) and by the … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Make “Animal Farm” Great Again?

Posted on April 23, 2026 by Roger Moore

George Orwell’s parable of totalitarianism earns a Trump era updating in a new animated “Animal Farm,” this one backed by Angel Studios and not the CIA. Actor turned “Venom” sequel director and the one-and-only “Gollum” in J.R.R. Tolkienland Andy Serkis … Continue reading →

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Netflixable? June Squibb is “Eleanor the Great”

Posted on April 22, 2026 by Roger Moore

Timing, especially in comedy, is everything. But Sony Pictures Classics had no way of knowing that its Oscar-campaigned Jewish Holocaust dramedy “Eleanor the Great” would come out in the middle of worldwide outrage at an ongoing Israeli genocide in Gaza. … Continue reading →

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