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Netflixable? Shailene’s on the hunt for the “Unabomber”
The difference between “a true story” and “inspired by a true story/true events” is laid bare in “Unabomber,” an account of the tail end of the hunt for mad mail bomber Ted Kaczynski. The heroine, played by Shailene Woodley, is … Continue reading
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Tagged drama, movies, netflix, russell-crowe, shailene-woodley
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Movie Review: Hawke & Co. carry “The Weight” of Life, Loss, and Gold for Russell Crowe
The hero is a widowed veteran, father of a tiny girl who is taken away from him when he is unjustly imprisoned. The warden of the camp where he’s jailed seems like a reasonable sort. He recognizes a man who … Continue reading
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Tagged ethan-hawke, movies, padraic-mckinley, russell-crowe, the-weight
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Movie Review: Relearning the lessons of “Nuremberg”
The stakes could not have been higher. The bloodiest war in history had just been brought to an end, and not all the “monsters” who launched it and conceived and carried out the worst genocide in human history had been … Continue reading
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Tagged michael-shannon, movies, nuremberg, rami-malek, russell-crowe
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Classic Film Review: Hopkins is “The Efficiency Expert,” but are Crowe, Collette and Mendelsohn getting the ax? (1991)
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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Tagged ben-mendelsohn, film, movie-review, reaganomics, Reviews, russell-crowe, toni-collette
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Movie Review: Krap on a kracker? “Kraven the Hunter”
Aaron Taylor-Johnson gets gym-jacked one more time, Russell Crowe auditions for a future Ernest Hemingway at his burliest bio-pic and Alessadro Nivolla trots out the silliest supervillain voice since John Malkovich in “Rounders” for “Kraven the Hunter,” a misguided mess … Continue reading
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Tagged aaron-taylor-johnson, debose, kraven, marvel, movie-review, nivola, russell-crowe
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