Review
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THE IDEA OF YOU – Review
With the tsunami of action blockbusters flooding the multiplex, you might think that the movie studios have forgotten that...
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NEW LIFE – Review
NEW LIFE is a drama that opens with a young woman, Jessie (Hayley Erin), running through the woods, head...
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WE GROWN NOW – Review
In a touching portrait of childhood friendship, the child-focused WE GROWN NOW captures the magic and innocence of childhood,...
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BOY KILLS WORLD – Review
Whew, it’s not even May, and the cinematic “body count” rises up considerably with another lone, determined warrior facing...
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CHALLENGERS – Review
This weekend brings a unique hybrid, a mixing of genres that has happened in the past but is somewhat...
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SASQUATCH SUNSET – Review
So, you say you want to see something different, offbeat, out-of-the-ordinarry on your next visit to the cinema (yes,...
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ABIGAIL – Review
An old saying goes that “You can’t keep a good man down”. Well, despite the meager box office returns...
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THE SHADOW OF THE DAY – St. Louis Jewish Film Festival Review
THE SHADOW OF THE DAY is a hauntingly beautiful tale of love and sacrifice in wartime, a story of...
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HUNDREDS OF BEAVERS – Review
Since it seems that the big action blockbusters are taking over the multiplex far in advance of their usual...
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Babylon Berlin: Season One – Review
“Babylon Berlin: Season One” is the beginning of a complex political crime period drama that has run for four...
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Bordertown: Season 2 – Review
“Bordertown: Season Two” continues another solid crime drama from the Scandinavian countries. It’s set in a Finnish town near...
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MATCHMAKING – St. Louis Jewish Film Festival Review
MATCHMAKING, one of the best comedies at this year’s St. Louis Jewish Film Festival, is a romantic comedy about...
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LA CHIMERA – Review
In Alice Rohrwacher’s Felliniesque tragicomic adventure tale LA CHIMERA, an English archaeologist-turned-tomb raider named Arthur (Josh O’Connor) leads a...
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CIVIL WAR – Review
Writer/director Alex Garland explored the near future in two of his previous three features. In EX MACHINA he pondered...
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THE GREATEST HITS – Review
Here comes another time-traveling fantasy, but with a twist. As the kids on Bandstand used to say to Dick...
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ONE-PERCENT WARRIOR – Review
The Japanese martial arts flick ONE-PERCENT WARRIOR (a/k/a ONE-PERCENTER) offers a couple of attractive features. First is the gritty...
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WICKED LITTLE LETTERS – Review
WICKED LITTLE LETTERS is one of those truth-stranger-than-fiction tales that remind us that people are weirder than we might...
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MONKEY MAN (2024) – Review
Since we’re now into the slow slide from Easter/Spring Break into the Summer cinema season, how about an MMA-style...
