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Movie Review: Alt Future “Daddy” tests determine who achieves Fatherhood
There’s ambition and a dollop of intellectual heft to the indie dramedy “Daddy.” Even if it misplaces characters, shortchanges its goals and fails to deliver much in the way of a satisfying conclusion, you can appreciate the attempt and the … Continue reading
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Classic Film Review: A Ken Loach dip into Dickensiana — “Black Jack” (1979)
Ken Loach built his career on films of protest, depicting the oppressed of many places and many eras in their struggle against their oppressors. The Brit’s “socialist realism” was obvious from his breakthrough English working class classic “Kes,” with the … Continue reading
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Netflixable? “Frozen Hot Boys” ice-sculpt their way to glory
“Frozen Hot Boys” is a Thai “Cool Runnings,” a cringy goof of a fish-out-of-water comedy about tropical trouble-makers who make a name for themselves in competitive ice and snow sculpting. Natapohn Tameeruks is Miss Chom, a bored vocational wood-carving teacher … Continue reading
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Movie Preview: Dennis Quaid’s raised a rodeo rider (Wyatt Russell) who’s “Broke” in more ways than one
Mary McDonnell, Tom Skerritt and Auden Thornton also star in this direct-to-streaming modern day Western from the director of “The Signal.” May 6.
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Movie Preview: Joaquin Phoenix, Pedro Pascal, Emma Stone and Austin Butler in Ari Aster’s “Eddington”
A pointed political parable about the schism that’s caused America’s downfall, a microcosm of hate, violence and decline set in “Eddington,” New Mexico. “Coming soon?” Sure. But as the fact that it’s set in 2020 makes clear, it’s already here.
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Movie Preview: Kroll & Rannells play a gay couple whose Italian vacay goes ever so wrong — “I Don’t Understand You”
They’re celebrating their anniversary and the arrival of their baby. Things go deathly wrong. More than once. Nick Kroll and Rannells, of “The Prom” and “The Intern,” make it work. This is one cute looking dark comedy. Look for it … Continue reading
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The One Thing “Drop” and “The Amateur” have in common? The “Saab” Getaway
Maybe you’ve got to be a car guy-or-pronoun-of-your-choice to notice it. But Thursday afternoon, I couldn’t help but notice that the first-date/widowed mom under threat who’s got to make a dash home to save her kid and her babysitting kid … Continue reading
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Movie Review: A First Date Dominated by a Cell Phone and a Stranger’s “Drop”
A tony, high-rise restaurant filled with potential suspects, any one of whom might “airdrop” the threats and blackmailed instructions for a murder onto our shocked and frantic heroine’s cell phone, is the setting and plot of “Drop,” a middling horror … Continue reading
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Movie Review: Malek schemes and turns the screws as “The Amateur”
A good cast and a clever variation of the man with “particular skills” revenge thriller formula make “The Amateur” an often entertaining slice of spy games hokum. Rami Malek stars as a CIA crypto analayst and tinkerer who becomes obsessed … Continue reading
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Movie Review: Modern “Warfare,” up close and impersonal
The big selling point of “Warfare” is its recreation of the “reality” of combat in the Middle East by a former Navy SEAL who was there. But there have been scores of documentaries made by embedded filmmakers who detailed the … Continue reading
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