Review
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THE PHOENCIAN SCHEME – Review
For any new Wes Anderson film, some things are certain: the art direction is going to be gorgeous, scenes...
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BALLERINA (2025) – Review
With another post-Memorial Day weekend, yet another franchise arrives with a new entry at the multiplex. It feels like...
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PREDATOR: KILLER OF KILLERS – Review
It’s always great as a reviewer when you can alert folks to a film that’s truly worth their time,...
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JANE AUSTEN WRECKED MY LIFE – Review
A French film about English author Jane Austen? No, a delightful contemporary French comedy, partly in English, about a...
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BRING HER BACK – Review
Just because the Summer movie season is officially in full swing (Memorial Day was last Monday, already), it doesn’t...
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KARATE KID: LEGENDS – Review
And with the first official post-holiday “Summer cinema” weekend at the multiplex, here comes the return of another beloved...
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THE PROSECUTOR – Review
I’ve previously described Donnie Yen as a Chinese Gary Cooper, projecting a calm, unshakable integrity that endures in the...
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PRETTY BOY – Review
Psycho slasher flicks are hard to predict on the quality scale. Some viewers only care about the gore level....
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MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE – THE FINAL RECKONING – Review
It seems impossible that Tom Cruise would stop making Mission Impossible movies, but if you have seen any of...
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FRIENDSHIP – Review
This week’s new indie comedy (a “micro-budgeted” flick squeezed in between two holiday-weekend studio “tentpoles”) explores the difficulty for...
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LILO & STITCH (2025) – review
And we’re finally back to the blockbusters, to be precise, the big Summer box office blockbusters, that will dominate...
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HUNT THE WICKED – Review
HUNT THE WICKED is a Chinese action flick in a contemporary crime setting that packs considerable punch in its...
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DEAF PRESIDENT NOW – Review
The biggest student protest you never heard of took place in 1988, when the Deaf students of Gallaudet University...
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WE WERE DANGEROUS – Review
The dangerous in WE WERE DANGEROUS are three rebellious teen girls at a New Zealand reform school in 1954....
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FIGHT OR FLIGHT – Review
Everything is exaggerated and over-the-top in the action-comedy FIGHT OR FLIGHT but the sky-high, stunt-filled film starring Josh Hartnett,...
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CLOWN IN A CORNFIELD – Review
Last week, the big Summer cinema season kicked off with another trip to the Marvel Cinematic Universe, with another...
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SHARP CORNER – Review
While the halls of the multiplex are filled with the sounds of battling superheroes and video game icons and...
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ROSARIO – Review
ROSARIO is a body horror film, with a dead body and a possible curse from an Afro-Cuban religion, Palo...
