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Movie Review: “White Bird” ties a bullying tale to The Holocaust

Posted on October 7, 2024 by Roger Moore

Novelist R.L. Palacio’s attempt to turn out a sequel to her best-seller “Wonder,” which became a Julia Roberts weeper on the big screen, seems well-intentioned enough. But tying that story about a precocious child bullied simply because he looks :different” … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Mel Gibson and Kids face the horrors of “Monster Summer”

Posted on October 4, 2024 by Roger Moore

“Canceled” Oscar winner Mel Gibson takes a break from the violent, vengeful B-movies that have kept him busy for a decade for “Monster Summer,” a witchy kiddie horror picture directed by a child actor who grew up on “The Wizards … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Post Partum Truths, Tears and Laughter through the Tears — “Another Happy Day”

Posted on October 2, 2024 by Roger Moore

In “Another Happy Day,” Lauren Lapkus plays a new mother who knows she’s no good at mothering, a frustrated, sleep-deprived young woman feeling lost and alone until she meets that not-quite-relative who says what she most needs to hear. “I … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Edie Falco’s a Helicopter Mom to her adult kids in “I’ll Be Right There”

Posted on October 2, 2024 by Roger Moore

Edie Falco has her best role since “Nurse Jackie” in “I’ll Be Right There,” a dramedy about an over-extended mom still dropping everything for everybody’s else’s needs well past the point she should. Screenwriter Jim Beggarly (“Free Samples,” “A Country … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Clooney and Pitt “Meet Cute” — As lone “Wolfs” aka “cleaners

Posted on September 25, 2024 by Roger Moore

Brad Pitt and George Clooney were doing the Hollywood bromance thing long before Ryan and Hugh. And even though they’ve appeared in four films together, the two hunky sixtysomethings were overdue for a “meet cute” action comedy. That’s what “Wolfs” … Continue reading →

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