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Today’s Around the World with Netflix offering is another cringey-cutesie comedy from Poland, a wish-fulfillment farce about an old industry, a new couple and the “old ways” — which include Poland’s long history of racism. “Death Before the Wedding” is … Continue reading →

Fan anticipation for any Marvel movie is always high. But one didn’t get a lot of sizzle from the “Captain America: Brave New World” trailers over the months. There’s been so much Marvel content streaming that the entire blockbuster mother … Continue reading →

LOL, right? No agent’s going to get fired for getting her or his client Apple money to make a movie directed by the guy who filmed “Doctor Strange” and “Black Phone.” But oy. This script. These characters. This dialogue. This … Continue reading →

Golly guys, I still haven’t worn out my t shirts from the original film, which was about a math whiz who knows too much. April 25.

Arch, stylized and production designed to the nth degree, “100 Yards” is a sort of ramen noodles martial arts Western. With their harmonica and guitar backed score, sibling filmmakers Hoafeng Xu and Jenfung Xu lean into Leone — Sergio, that … Continue reading →

The great Western director John Ford’s idea of filming a British police procedural was to make it a lot like his Westerns. He’d make the hero ironic — serious when need be, but comically bewildered at times. Domestic life would … Continue reading →

Any fans who go to comic book movies for escape from the real world and the comfort of familiar godlike characters achieving something resembling justice and just deserts for evil-doers is going to lament the experience that “Captain America: Brave … Continue reading →

The old rule that film series for children tend to go one sequel too far pretty much applies to “Paddington in Peru,” the third Paddington Bear picture to celebrate all that’s twee about a bear learning to be British The … Continue reading →

These movies have been adorable entertainment for small kids. Let’s see if that “They always make one sequel too many” rule applies. “Almost,” is the verdict. My review here.