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BOX OFFICE: “Spider-Man” approaches All Time Record, “Odyssey” Clears a $Billion, “By Any Means” cracks Top Five

Posted on September 5, 2026 by Roger Moore

Labor Day Weekend is both a four-day weekend, and the “last weekend of summer” as far as the movies go. So all the $numbers piled up and reported here will be for the four days of the first moviegoing weekend … Continue reading →

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Documentary Review: A Classic Film, Controversy, and Wounded Turkish Pride — “Midnight Return: The Story of Billy Hayes and Turkey”

Posted on August 31, 2026 by Roger Moore

There was a time when movies could create an international furor that could last for years — decades, even. If you think North Korea’s war on Sony over “The Interview,” racist YA sci-fi fans fuming over the fact that Black … Continue reading →

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Netflixable? DeNiro, Monaghan and Scott need answers from “The Whisper Man”

Posted on August 29, 2026 by Roger Moore

Crackling performances and a twisty plot that mixes melodrama with suspense recommend “The Whisper Man,” a new thriller based on an Alex North novel. It’s “Silence of the Lambs” paying homage to “The Slender Man,” a tale of fathers and … Continue reading →

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Documentary Review: A Filmmaker Father Reckons with the Loss of his Son — “Remake”

Posted on August 18, 2026 by Roger Moore

The grim finality of loss hangs over legendary filmmaker Ross McElwee’s “Remake.” A meditation on grief, guilt and an obsession to honestly and frankly document one’s life and share it with the world, it may not be the last film … Continue reading →

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Classic Film Review: The First Person Diary Doc is born on “Sherman’s March” (1986)

Posted on August 16, 2026 by Roger Moore

It’s hard to remember how “out there” Ross McElwee’s landmark “personal journey” documentary “Sherman’s March” was in 1986. A confessional, cutesie, creepy and revealing snapshot of the South and one privileged movie maker’s revisiting of his romantic past and revelation … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: You Can’t Spell Heartache without “H is for Hawk”

Posted on August 10, 2026 by Roger Moore

Almost all of us missed “H is for Hawk” when it was shown in “select cinemas” last winter. And we’re all the poorer for it. This sublime, understated film — based on a memoir by Helen MacDonald — is another … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Black Teen faces the trials of being a “Mississippi Scholar”

Posted on July 12, 2026 by Roger Moore

Earnest, preachy and melodramatic to a fault, “Mississippi Scholar” is exactly the sort of movie that the independent cinema was born to create. Director and co-writer Marcus Bleecker’s film may traffic in tropes and cliches. But it has a vivid … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Cumming and Kin “Drive Back Home” in The Bad Ol’Days for Canada’s Gays

Posted on July 3, 2026 by Roger Moore

“Drive Back Home” is a road comedy with a queer history subtext and a hard, melodramatic flourish saved for its finale. It’s about a prodigal son and an estranged family that he fled the moment he was old enough to … Continue reading →

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Documentary Review: Intentionally forgotten Lebanon — “Do You Love Me”

Posted on June 30, 2026 by Roger Moore

In Lebanon, an opening title tells us, “contemporary history is not taught in schools.” Basically, a half century of intermittent bloody unrest has been erased. The endless Israeli incursions and invasions? The civil war Israel triggered with the refugee dislocations … Continue reading →

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Classic Film Review: Jean-Pierre Melville is one of “Two Men in Manhattan” (1959)

Posted on June 29, 2026 by Roger Moore

Sometimes, the most accurate mirrors we face are held up to us by others. Consider the flood of viral stories about America and those visiting it during the World Cup — the German who sang our praises and found himself … Continue reading →

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