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‘Ready Player One’ Review

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Sorry to disappoint all the haters – including everyone who plastered the internet with phony marketing posters – but “Ready Player One” is a very good movie. Just three months after the release of “The Post”, the best movie of last year (in my opinion) director Steven Spielberg gives us an early “Best of” contender […]
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‘Isle of Dogs’ Review

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Wes Anderson’s stop-motion animated triumph, “Fantastic Mr. Fox” (based on the Roald Dahl book) is one of my all-time favorite animated films. Bold, daring and visually stunning – I’ve seen it at least five times since its 2009 release. “Isle of Dogs” is Anderson’s first venture into animation since “Fox”. From the trailers, the two […]
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‘Sherlock Gnomes’ Review

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2011’s “Gnomeo & Juliet” is charming, sweet, emotional and genuine. I told lead voice actress Emily Blunt “it’s a terrific animated movie” on “The Tonight Show”. I can’t believe that was more than 7 years ago. Now, after seeing the new sorta-sequel, sorta-spinoff, follow-up – “Sherlock Gnomes”, I kinda feel bad for Blunt, whose Juliet […]
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‘Pacific Rim Uprising’ Review

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The mega sci-fi creatures vs. robots extravaganza “Pacific Rim” opened in theaters July 2013. A lot’s taken place in the movie world over the past four and a half years, including that film’s director, Guillermo del Toro making the best decision of his career, choosing to direct a different creature in “The Shape of Water” […]
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‘Tomb Raider’ Review

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As I was watching the new “Tomb Raider”, which is based on the Lara Croft video games, and, of course, is a reboot of the ‘01 & ‘03 films starring Angelina Jolie, I couldn’t help but think that this is the kind of movie normally released in the summertime, not in mid-March. That’s because “Tomb […]
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‘Love, Simon’ Review

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“Love, Simon” is based on the 2015 YA novel Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda. 20th Century Fox, the studio distributing the film, is declaring this film the first-ever mainstream rom-com with a gay teen protagonist. Nick Robinson (from last year’s “Everything, Everything” – also based on a YA romance novel) gives a breakthrough, star-making […]
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‘A Wrinkle in Time’ Review

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“A Wrinkle in Time” is based on the Award-winning 1962 novel of the same name that’s a fixture in most grade school classrooms. I’ve been familiar with the book for a long time, but didn’t read it growing-up. After seeing Disney’s film adaptation, I consider that a blessing. Ava DuVernay is the talented director of […]
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‘March of the Penguins 2: The Next Step’ Review

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“Meet the remarkable Emperor Penguin… again.” That is narrator Morgan Freeman’s opening line from “March of the Penguins 2: The Next Step”, the follow-up to 2005’s groundbreaking, Oscar-winning nature documentary. This is a sequel we never knew we needed. I saw the original “March” at a crowded theater during the height of its theatrical run […]
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‘Red Sparrow’ Review

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“Red Sparrow” is being marketed as a sexy spy thriller in which Jennifer Lawrence shows a lot of skin. The truth is – while Lawrence is naked in a few scenes, not only is this misguided and often vile film NOT sexy, but it doesn’t contain a single thrill. In a time when Hollywood is […]
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‘Game Night’ Review

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“Hollywood Game Night”, which debuted in 2013, is the fun NBC competition show, hosted by the always entertaining Jane Lynch. “Game Night”, the new Hollywood comedy, is neither fun nor entertaining. The minute you buy a ticket to this misguided misadventure, you’ve already lost. Husband and wife Max and Annie (they met years ago at […]
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