‘Golda’ maneuvers through the personal, professional, spiritual, and historical to draw out the essence of a complicated and consequential world leader.
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‘Sympathy for the Devil’ is a straightforward mystery thriller boasting strong performances that mask an overall dearth of narrative depth.
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What pushes ‘Dead Man’s Hand’ from merely bad to bracingly awful is the film’s failure to connect with any trope, motif, or symbol of the Western genre in a meaningful way.
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‘Asteroid City’ is predictably heavy on style, surprisingly robust in substance, yet curiously short on structure and emotional impact.
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The new ‘White Men Can’t Jump’ is a joyless, unfocused, and utterly uninspired remake of a movie that had all of that to spare.
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[Rating: Solid Rock Fist Up] In theaters May 5th People are going to head to the theaters for Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 expecting yet another mindless romp through comic book escapism, not at all ready for the emotional tidal wave that’s barreling towards them. Granted, this MCU series has always boasted more heart […]
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[Rating: Solid Rock Fist Up] Now Playing in Limited Release There’s a fine line between graffiti and art, between eccentricity and malevolence, and the danger lies not so much in those that don’t know the difference, but rather in those that do and just don’t care. Sick of Myself has some thoughts on the matter, […]
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Tense, engaging, well cast, and only sometimes bewildering, Boston Strangler is a welcome update to the eponymous serial killer’s legend.
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Deliberate and precise, ‘One Fine Morning’ pulls no punches while never going for the knockout blow, exploring life’s most desperate/cherished moments.
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A gory, funny, irreverent triviality that doesn’t overstay its welcome, Cocaine Bear delivers on its eponymous promise (and little else).
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‘Consecration’ is a grab-bag of horror tropes and cinematic parlor tricks that amuses for a time, yet ultimately stumbles.
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A story about the holding patterns people put themselves in while waiting for life to happen to them, “Living” is Bill Nighy at his best.
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Five pounds of movie stuffed in a 10-pound bag, “Alice, Darling” is less a story and more a snapshot: teasing the profound while never quite arriving there.
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Not nearly fun enough to exist as pure escapism, and far too ridiculous to take at face value, ‘Plane’ is a vessel without a (air)port.
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Oscars Preview! Scene-Stealers Talk 95th Academy Awards
by Warren Cantrell on March 6, 2023
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To get a sense of what the Scene-Stealers crew is thinking about this crop of 2023 Oscar nominees, look no further.
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