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Movie Review: Turturro Broods and Schemes as “The Only Living Pickpocket in New York”

The one thing that keeps you on the edge of your seat for the sober-minded thriller “The Only Living Pickpocket in New York” is the suspense over how good the finale will be. Because so much that’s preceded it — … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: “Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother” isn’t There to Reckon with the Sins of the Father

Oscar winner Mahershala Ali plays a holy man trapped in a murderously unholy profession in “Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother,” a satire on “faith” in America wrapped in an all-too-conventional hit man thriller. As Latif, Ali is a suddenly-single … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Eyes Off the Prize? Civil Rights Justice “By Any Means”

The all-too-human lust for vengeance collides with the faint hope for justice in “By Any Means,” a Civil Rights thriller set in the “Mississippi Burning” timeline. It’s a violent “true enough for Hollywood” tale of torture and summary executions in … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Francis Shrugged — “Megalopolis”

It’s a pity the great filmmakers can’t all bow out with “A Passage to India,” “The Dead” or “Charlie Wilson’s War.” And it’s a shame Francis Ford Coppola didn’t have some dream literary adaptation, some piece of Italian or Italian-American … Continue reading →

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