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Movie Review: Teen Temptress, Femme Fatale, or Victim? “Nahir”

Posted on January 14, 2025 by Roger Moore

“Nahir,” a brooding, glamourized and sexed-up account of a notorious Argentine murder case, is a mystery thriller that aims for engrossing and immersive that never falls short of quite watchable along the way. Screenwriter Sofia Wilhelmi and director Hernán Gu … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Wild West Dinklage chases Juliette Lewis into “The Thicket”

Posted on January 12, 2025 by Roger Moore

“The Thicket” is a Western built on archetyepal characters pursuing one another through a forbidding and unforgiving archetypal Western landscape. It’s a wintry fin de siècle “manhunt” for a young woman, and another woman gang-leader named Cut Throat Bill who … Continue reading →

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Netflixable? WWII Underground Agent “Number 24 (Nr. 24)” tells kids what’s called for when you Fight Fascism

Posted on January 11, 2025 by Roger Moore

One of the smartest places Netflix has put its international production money is Scandivanian World War II films. A collection of true or “inspired by” true stories have shown us forgotten heroics, sacrifice, treachery and air raids that went wrong. … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: More heists, more Butler and Jackson — “Den of Thieves 2: Pantera”

Posted on January 10, 2025 by Roger Moore

One hesitates to ever use the phrase “lazy” in describing the epic enterprise that is the making of any major motion picture. But the temptation is there in describing writer-director Christian Gudegast’s reunion with Gerard Butler and O’Shea Jackson, Jr. … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Donnie Yen punches and kicks for justice as “The Prosecutor”

Posted on January 9, 2025 by Roger Moore

Martial arts icon Donnie Yen directs and stars in “The Prosecutor,” playing a two-fisted, idealistic Hong Kong cop turned prosecuting attorney. Some of the most fantastic fights in recent screen history, choreographed by Takahita Ouichi and Donnie Yen Stunt Team … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: All the World’s a Gamescape — “Grand Theft Hamlet”

Posted on January 8, 2025 by Roger Moore

Making art in the middle of the apocalypse is the literal and figurative ethos of “Grand Theft Hamlet,” one of the cleverest “What can we do during lockdown?” pandemic picture projects. A couple of British actors — Sam Crane and … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Millennials try to buy-in or opt-out of the “American Meltdown”

Posted on January 6, 2025 by Roger Moore

“American Meltdown” is a comic buddy picture that taps into the deep well of Millennial angst and grievance about a “system” that is finally so broken it doesn’t work for them. At all. Like a lot of fiction and op … Continue reading →

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Classic Film Review: Hopkins is “The Efficiency Expert,” but are Crowe, Collette and Mendelsohn getting the ax? (1991)

Posted on January 4, 2025 by Roger Moore

Three future stars from Down Under pop off the screen in “The Efficiency Expert,” a delicate, dated and yet timeless fish-out-of-water period piece set in Australia at the birth of the job-cutting “consultant” boom. Toni Collette, impressive and emotional in … Continue reading →

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Classic Film Review: Baby Brian (De Palma) and Baby Bobby (DeNiro) — “Hi, Mom!” (1970)

Posted on January 2, 2025 by Roger Moore

Brian DePalma’s fourth “experimental” indie feature is a time capsule of New York in decay and political disarray. It’s the movie in which his no budget guerilla filmmaking connected with the zeitgeist, and an audience of the young and the … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: An Estranged Father and Son find middle ground at the “Chicken Coop”

Posted on December 30, 2024 by Roger Moore

“Chicken Coop” is a drab indie dramedy about dogmatic parents, children who left home to escape that and “bonding” over home repair as they fight over literally everything else. Decent acting doesn’t atone for low-stakes drama, low-heat scenes and dated, … Continue reading →

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