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Movie Review: A French “Robin Hood” robber enjoys “Freedom,” between heists and prison time
The ambitiously titled “Freedom” is a heist picture that makes more promises than it keeps. The latest feature from actress turned director Mélanie Laurent (“Now You See Me,” “The Flood”) sets up as a French Robin Hood tale of an … Continue reading
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Classic Film Review: Hitchcock becomes “Hitch” — “The 39 Steps” (1935)
While he was alive, critics had little trouble finding ways to discount Alfred Hitchcock’s genius and underrate his later decades of entertaining, bubbly and even chilling thrillers. Because that generation of reviewers remembered “The 39 Steps.” This 1935 romp of … Continue reading
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Netflixable? Troubled Couple’s Children have “Vanished into the Night”
The stakes could not be higher in the thriller “Vanished into the Night.” A father, in debt and going through a divorce, loses his children to kidnappers and must reconnect with a hoodlum from his wayward youth to raise the … Continue reading
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Netflixable? Argentine half-siblings are “(Un) Lucky Sisters”
They blow the “meet cute” in the Argentine action comedy “(Un) Lucky Sisters,” and its pretty much all downhill from there in this short but not remotely brisk tale of two disconnected half-sisters who stumble into their late father’s secret … Continue reading
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Movie Review: “Let’s Start a Cult”
“Let’s Start a Cult” is a rude and raunchy farce that’s amusingly in step with our times even as it strains for laughs in all the most vulgar places. It’s a star vehicle for co-writer and walking, eating, sweating and … Continue reading
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Movie Review: Buster Keaton in a “Minions” comedy by Terry Gilliam? “Hundreds of Beavers”
We tend to think of slapstick comedy gag writing as a lost art. It didn’t die along with Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin, but its most acclaimed practioners these days are in animation, heirs to the Chuck Jones/Looney Tunes tradition. … Continue reading
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Tagged beavers, comedy, film, mike-cheslik, movie-review, movies, olivia-graves
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Movie Review: Martial Arts Magic, Mystery and Mayhem delivered by “The Tai Chi Master”
I’m not a big fan of fantasy action films, but I make an inception when the phrase “martial arts” is tossed in. One can never have too much flying wirework, too many mystical punches that could flatten mountains or heroes … Continue reading
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Movie Review: Liev Schreiber broods beautifully in Hemingway’s “Across the River and Into the Trees”
“Across the River and Into the Trees” presents Liev Schreiber as the latest Ernest Hemingway literary alter ego to make it to the screen, and perhaps the best ever at capturing the world weariness of the late life, post-World War … Continue reading
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