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Netflixable? Investigator meets a Murder Suspect and imagines herself “In Her Place (El lugar de la otra)”

Posted on December 19, 2024 by Roger Moore

The lone woman on a team investigating an instantly-notorious and very public murder finds herself understanding and even envying the murderess in “In Her Place,” a thriller with a message about the lot of women in 1950s South America, and … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: “Wicked” girlfriend, you’ve put on an awful lot of weight

Posted on November 22, 2024 by Roger Moore

“Wicked” moves from the Broadway stage to the cinema, an epic that transitions from “musical” to “intellectual property” in a bloated, lumbering, gear-grinding crash. Whatever Disney or most any other producing studio might have done to this beloved prequel to … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: A Black Boy’s Odyssey through the London “Blitz”

Posted on November 21, 2024 by Roger Moore

A single photo in Britain’s Imperial War Museum — a mixed-race child snapped as he joined the sea of children being evacuated from a British city early in World War II — inspired the brilliant writer-director Steve McQueen’s “Blitz,” a … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Britain’s “Best International Feature” Oscar hope is an Indian Police Procedural — “Santosh”

Posted on November 20, 2024 by Roger Moore

American TV has pretty much beaten to death the police procedural drama thanks to overexposure to the infallible, unimpeachable justice system fantasies of Dick Wolf, the self-righteous heroes of “Blue Bloods” and and the scientist sleuths of “C.S.I.” That’s why … Continue reading →

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Classic Film Review: Lemmon and Allyson remake “It Happened One Night” — as a musical — “You Can’t Run Away from It” (1956)

Posted on November 19, 2024 by Roger Moore

“You Can’t Run Away from It” is a comic curiosity from the early career of Jack Lemmon, a musical filmed when studios were scrambling to lure filmgoers away from TV and when musicals were so overexposed — “The King and … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Mismatched Cousins Find their Pilgrimage to the Motherland “A Real Pain”

Posted on November 18, 2024 by Roger Moore

It’s true that the funniest bits in Jesse Eisenberg’s “A Real Pain” turn up in the movie’s trailers. A lot of over-reactions and under-reactions, infectiously exhuberant changes of mood that can be exhaustingly manic, a big personality overhwelming a reserved … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Cillian Murphy’s an Irishman Haunted by the Cruelty of the Magdalene Laundries — “Small Things Like These”

Posted on November 18, 2024 by Roger Moore

There have been more emotional films about the great shame of modern Ireland, the state’s complicity with the Catholic church’s infamous “Magdalene Laundries, which imprisoned pregnant young women in convents, forced them to work for convent for-profit laundry services and … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: A Father sees his Estranged Daughters “In the Summers”

Posted on November 14, 2024 by Roger Moore

“In the Summers” is a wistful elegy to the passing of childhood and the recognition and acceptance of the flaws of those who made us. Alexssandra Lacorazza’s downbeat debut feature follows two California sisters through the ups and downs of … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Swedes endure the “Stockholm Bloodbath,” and a dark comedy about it

Posted on November 11, 2024 by Roger Moore

It’s revealing that “Stockholm Bloodbath,” the latest film retelling of a grim moment in history that led to Sweden’s independence, premiered in Denmark. The film’s about Swedish suffering, persistence and pluck, and the Danes are the ones who perpetrated the … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Switzerland’s Oscar contender has a Peruvian flavor — “Reinas”

Posted on October 24, 2024 by Roger Moore

When the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences changed its “Best Foreign Language Film” category at the Oscars to “Best International Feature,” it was designed to make the Academy Awards seem less Hollywood-centric, less like “English” was the official … Continue reading →

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