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‘Relay’ Movie Review

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I’m not crazy about director David Mackenzie’s 2016 “Hell or High Water”. It’s an alright but not powerhouse crime drama. But it was a rare August release that spoke to all of the major awards season groups, earning Oscar nominations for star Jeff Bridges and writer Taylor Sheridan (who would go on to “Yellowstone”), as […]
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‘Superman’ Movie Review

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By DC Studios standards, James Gunn’s new “Superman” movie is passable, thanks in large part to a confident David Corenswet (maybe casting him in the title role because of his D.C. initials was intentional) and his scenes with “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” Emmy winner Rachel Brosnahan, who plays Daily Planet reporter Lois Lane. Gunn was […]
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‘LIZA: A Truly Terrific Absolutely True Story’ Movie Review

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A new documentary on legendary singer Liza Minnelli has a solid start, with an introduction that makes us feel like we’re about to experience something important and, well, terrific. And the set-up also presents a very interesting question: What do you do when your world famous mother (one of the most recognizable people on the […]
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‘The Order’ Movie Review

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Jude Law stars in dramatic crime thriller “The Order” as FBI agent Terry. It’s the 1980s, and Terry moves to the Pacific Northwest, hoping for a little more of a laid-back life, even though he’s still on the job. Well that’s not going to happen because a bunch of robberies are taking place. The criminals: […]
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‘The Gutter’ Movie Review

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“The Gutter” is the kind of comedy you’d probably find on Cable TV at 1am. It has that spirit. You flip through the channels and go, “What is this goofy, absurd sports comedy?” It’s wild, outrageous, random and ridiculous… but I stuck with it, and it’s far from the worst movie experience of 2024. There […]
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‘My Spy: The Eternal City’ Movie Review

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“My Spy: The Eternal City” is the sequel to the 2020 action comedy “My Spy”, which was originally supposed to go to theaters and then Amazon acquired it for a Prime Video release early on in the COVID pandemic. I kinda like that film. Not amazing, but unique and entertaining enough, with Dave Bautista in […]
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‘Bad Boys: Ride or Die’ Movie Review

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“Bad Boys: Ride or Die” arrives about four and a half years after the third installment, “Bad Boys For Life”, which came out in January 2020. It was the biggest movie of that year because of the COVID pandemic. And it’s also been a little over two years since Will Smith slapped Chris Rock on […]
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‘Wonka’ Movie Review

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1971’s “Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory” and 2005’s “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” are two of my 100 favorite films of all-time. I consider both adaptations of the classic Roald Dahl story to be brilliant. Both Gene Wilder and Johnny Depp deliver powerful versions as the fascinating, multi-dimensional, dynamic chocolate-maker extraordinaire. When I learned […]
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‘She Came to Me’ Movie Review

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“She Came to Me” is hard to describe. Looking at the poster, with a New York City backdrop behind stars Peter Dinklage, Anne Hathaway and Marisa Tomei, you might think it’s a love triangle romantic comedy And maybe, since it is set in The Big Apple, you might predict it’s one of those rom-coms filled […]
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‘Flora and Son’ Movie Review

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Writer/director John Carney knows how to make music shine in his movies. His breakthrough 2007 drama “Once” featured the Oscar-winning song “Falling Slowly”. Tunes performed by Keira Knightley and Adam Levine rocked in “Begin Again”. And “Sing Street” is one of my 20 favorite films of the past 10 years. So my expectations were high […]
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