Reviews

‘Late Night’ is a perceptive, funny comedy built on an unsound contrivance.

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‘Dark Phoenix’ is a pretty odd and largely dissatisfying end to the near mostly tremendous twenty year run of Fox’s X-Men franchise.

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Godzilla: King of the Monsters gives new meaning to the term “dumb monster movie.” Hold up, that’s not fair. Actually it’s the humans in this movie that are the dummies.

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Octavia Spencer delivers a terror-filled good time in her basement.

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[Rating: Minor Rock Fist Up] I’m not gonna lie — I have actually been looking forward to a live action movie about the tales of Aladdin and his magic lamp since I was a kid. The animated flick, which came out when I was in high school is still one of my all-time favorite Disney […]

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[Rating: Minor Rock Fist Down] A straightforward hagiography piece that celebrates its subject with little critical analysis, Botero is an instructive albeit unambitious documentary. Tracking the creative growth of Columbian painter/sculptor Fernando Botero, the film hits all of the expected notes of the artist’s professional maturation using testimonials from family members, curators, art historians, and […]

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[Rating: Minor Rock Fist Down] A rom-com that lives in the periphery of the world it creates for itself, Photograph endeavors (yet too often fails) to tell a familiar story without the traditional narrative building blocks of its genre. This is somewhat ironic, too, for the story is steeped in the traditions of its characters, […]

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‘The Sun is Also a Star’ is super cheesy, but makes some much needed updates to the teen romance genre.

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‘John Wick Chapter 3: Parabellum’ may not be the best of the bunch but the insanely frantic action sequences make up for an overabundance of exposition.

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[Rating: Solid Rock Fist Up] All Creatures Here Below, from screenwriter David Dastmalchian and director Collin Schiffli is not an easy movie to watch but it’s a movie that will stick with you for a long time after you see it. This is a testament to Dastmalchian’s gripping script and a heart breaking performance by […]

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‘Wild Nights with Emily’ dispels the myth of a reclusive Emily Dickinson and instead tells of the love story between her and friend Susan Gilbert.

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Using a refreshing, unique spin on a classic high school yarn, ‘Banana Split’ succeeds in crafting a story that’s both entertaining and empowering.

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‘Don’t Look,’ billed as a “unique, female-directed twist on horror films,” doesn’t break any new ground in the world of slasher horror, but for a first feature, it’s really solid.

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Red Joan spy thriller with Judi Dench and Sophie Cookson never offers a compelling motives or plot.

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Newcomers tackle teen suicide, and don’t quite get it, in ‘Just Say Goodbye’ starring Max MacKenzie.

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