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What a tepid treatment of an intriguing piece of murderous plotting “Measure of Revenge” turns out to be. It’s a star vehicle for Oscar winner Melissa Leo in which she plays a grande dame of the theater, a woman famous … Continue reading →

Writer-director Pushpendra Singh’s “The Shepherdess and the Seven Songs” has a lyrical, folk parable simplicity that instantly summons up memories of India’s greatest filmmaker, Satyajit Ray. Singh’s poetic film tells us the story of a Kashmiri woman’s marriage into “another … Continue reading →

April 8, it’s Sonic the Hedgehog vs. Knuckles the Hedgehog, and Jim Carrey vs. a very big mustache.

“Squared Love” is a vapid little “Around the World with Netflix” bauble from Poland, a romance about a teacher whose side hustle is modeling. By day, Monika is a doting Polish elementary school teacher, an innovator beloved by her kids … Continue reading →

Oscar winner William Hurt has died, four years after letting us know that he’d been diagnosed with terminal prostate cancer. He was 71. His stand-out performances were legion — “Kiss of the Spider Woman,” “Broadcast News,” “A History of Violence,” … Continue reading →

“Win a Trip to Browntown!” is a “family” comedy about anal sex, an almost-laugh-free lurch along the not-so-fine-line between “insipid” and “insufferable.” Broadly, dully acted, with a script that sounds like a beer-soaked brainstorming session from your 25th college reunion … Continue reading →

I missed “Outlaw King” when Netflix dropped it in 2018, because I occasionally drop Netflix when I find myself running out of content to watch/review and have seen every Indonesian romance, Turkish those story and Brazilian comedy that might interest … Continue reading →

Diana Agron and Simon Helberg play siblings coping with end of life issues for their dad, played by Dustin Hoffman, while keeping their mom (Candice Bergen) on an even keel in this Mayim Bialik family dramedy. Quiver Distribution has “As … Continue reading →

Fen was all set to live out her “coming of age” in Los Angeles, a Taiwanese transplant who still speaks Mandarin when ordered to, but who has grown up with American English and American attitudes. But she quickly figures out … Continue reading →