Forget the real-world sociopolitical scuffle: This is a welcome addition to the Marvel playbook, an exciting and pensive drama in which actions don’t always speak louder than words.
Matt Brunson
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Analyzing this year’s Oscar nominations
A look at various highlights, low points, and that stuff that falls in between.
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Review: Star Wars: The Last Jedi
The Last Jedi is very much its own entity, exploring new routes as it teases out themes that have always been present in the Skywalker saga. In the debit column, it’s also a tad bloated, and it contains an almost risible number of false endings —
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Review: Downsizing
Downsizing continues in an almost lackadaisical fashion, but then something remarkable and transformative happens: Hong Chau shows up.
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Review: Coco
Coco opens by following the traditional toon template of a person following their dreams against all odds, but once Miguel reaches the Land of the Dead, the movie deepens in satisfying and even unexpected ways.
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Review: Last Flag Flying
Last Flag Flying is proudly pro-soldier and anti-war, and real American patriots will grasp it at once.
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Review: Justice League
Gal Gadot again ends up as a saving grace, and she also figures at the center of one of the few action sequences (a bank robbery) that’s exciting rather than cumbersome.
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Review: Murder on the Orient Express
As director, Branagh makes some lamentable decisions, trying to frame a couple of moments as action set-pieces and elsewhere adopting strange camera angles that call awkward attention upon themselves. This is especially true of the murder sequence, which Branagh grotesquely stages as if he were auditioning to direct a remake of Carnival of Souls.
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Review: Blade Runner 2049
On its own terms, it’s a dazzling achievement, a heady motion picture that employs state-of-the-art visuals to punch across its alternately tough and tender story of love, loss and identity.
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Fall Film Frenzy
IT GOT off to a strong start, and by “it,” we mean both the fall film season and the Stephen King cinematic property that broke several box office records when […]
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Review: IT
This new It is a respectable addition to the King cinematic canon, but it will be the adults-only second installment that will make or break the overall project
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Review: Logan Lucky
There are precious few characters who don’t look and sound like they just got back from molesting Ned Beatty alongside the Georgia river.