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Netflixable? Who’s a Good (Brazilian) Boy? “Caramelo”

Posted on October 10, 2025 by Roger Moore

“Caramelo” is a boy-and-his-dog-tale that’s as adorable as it is sentimental and predictable. Writer-direector Diego Freitas serves up a near perfectly executed São Paulo story of a mischievous stray, a young chef and the ways they connect when one of … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: New York “Neighbors” and Theatre “Types” collide in “The French Italian”

Posted on October 8, 2025 by Roger Moore

“The French Italian” is a dizzy comedy that loses its fizz when it wears out the possibilties of its original premise, but gets some of it back by finding a few other screwy directions to take us. Writer-director Rachel Wolther’s … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Faithful to the End, and Beyond — Who’s a “Good Boy?”

Posted on October 8, 2025 by Roger Moore

“Good Boy” is elemental horror — a tale of a sick man under natural and supernatural assault — and his dog. And the marvel of this movie is the performance by that real live dog. Director Ben Leonberg picked up … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Summer of ’81, “Casey Makes a Mixtape”

Posted on October 5, 2025 by Roger Moore

“Casey Makes a Mixtape” is a wan indie coming-of-age dramedy in which nobody comes of age, nothing dramatic or comedic happens. It’s a sort of little film festival movie that couldn’t, a period piece that was never fated to pick … Continue reading →

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Netflixable? Phylicia, Seraya and Tyler riff on The Book of Ruth — “Ruth & Boaz”

Posted on September 30, 2025 by Roger Moore

The Biblical “Book of Ruth” was the inspiration for “Ruth & Boaz,” a modern, semi-faith-based romantic melodrama from the fantasy factory that is Tyler Perry Studios. Ruth isn’t a widow who bonds with her widowed mother in law, meeting the … Continue reading →

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Series Review: “House of Guinness” is a Pint in a Gilded Gallon-sized Glass

Posted on September 28, 2025 by Roger Moore

How long does it take you to decide if a streaming series is worth bingeing all the way to the end? One episode? Three? Five? That’s why such series frontload the action, the parade of characters, the colorful settings and … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: A Friendship. An Affair. What’s Missing? “All of You”

Posted on September 27, 2025 by Roger Moore

Brett Goldstein burns through a little of his “Ted Lasso” capital with “All of You,” a “When Harry Met Sally” platonic-friends-can’t-stay platonic romance co-starring Imogen Poots. The friends “since uni” story, co-written by Goldstein, is at its best when our … Continue reading →

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Netflixable? “Terror Comes Knocking: The Marcela Borges Story”

Posted on September 22, 2025 by Roger Moore

The stakes could not be higher. The sneering gang of armed men burst into the house, punch and abuse the inhabitants and ransack the place looking for “the money.” The husband is bloodied and the pregnant wife slapped around, all … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Widower Timothy Spall crosses Britain on “The Last Bus”

Posted on September 21, 2025 by Roger Moore

The first impression Timothy Spall made on film fans was when he played a plump, delusional, somewhat daft chef in Mike Leigh’s quirky slice-of-working-class dream, “Life is Sweet.” Restaurateur Aubrey thought putting boiled bacon consumme, prune quiche and pork cyst … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: A Slight Flight of Fantasy Fancy billed as “A Big Bold Beautiful Journey”

Posted on September 19, 2025 by Roger Moore

Pairing up Margot Robbie and Colin Farrell for a big screen fantasy romance doesn’t pay off in “A Big Bold Beautiful Journey,” a film that has one or two big moments on its road-trip-romantic “journey,” a little digitally augmented “beauty” … Continue reading →

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