All posts tagged "Drama"
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Mark Glass | July 23, 2024
MIDNIGHT TAXI – Review
First of all, if you’re a vintage film buff who has already seen 1937’s MIDNIGHT TAXI, this new...
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Mark Glass | June 25, 2024
HOPELESS – Review
I’ve praised many Korean crime and action exports recently. HOPELESS will not be one of them, perhaps due...
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Jim Batts | June 13, 2024
TUESDAY – Review
Maybe it’s a bit of unintended “synergy”, or just a result of a scrambled post-strike release schedule, but...
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Cate Marquis | May 17, 2024
BACK TO BLACK – Review
Talented singer/songwriter Amy Winehouse’s tragic life was already the subject of an Oscar-winning documentary, AMY in 2015, made...
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Cate Marquis | May 14, 2024
NOWHERE SPECIAL – Review
James Norton plays an Irish single father of a 4-year-old boy in director Uberto Pasolini’s touching, bittersweet drama...
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Mark Glass | April 29, 2024
NEW LIFE – Review
NEW LIFE is a drama that opens with a young woman, Jessie (Hayley Erin), running through the woods,...
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Cate Marquis | April 26, 2024
WE GROWN NOW – Review
In a touching portrait of childhood friendship, the child-focused WE GROWN NOW captures the magic and innocence of...
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Jim Batts | April 25, 2024
CHALLENGERS – Review
This weekend brings a unique hybrid, a mixing of genres that has happened in the past but is...
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Cate Marquis | April 12, 2024
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...
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Jim Batts | April 11, 2024
CIVIL WAR – Review
Writer/director Alex Garland explored the near future in two of his previous three features. In EX MACHINA he...
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Cate Marquis | March 22, 2024
SHAYDA – Review
Shayda (Zar Amir Ebrahimi) flees her abusive husband in Iran, along with her six-year-old daughter Mona (Selina Zahednia),...
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Jim Batts | March 15, 2024
ARTHUR THE KING – Review
Geez, the movies have really gone to the dogs. Sure, lots of folks constantly use that as an...
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Jim Batts | March 7, 2024
IO CAPITANO – Review
The countdown is in its final days. No, we’re not talking about the arrival of Spring, but rather...
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Mark Glass | February 28, 2024
“A Good Family” – TV Series Review
The title of the six-episode Finnish drama, “A Good Family (Musta valo),” must have been meant ironically, since...
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Jim Batts | February 22, 2024
ORDINARY ANGELS – Review
As the news gets darker and more depressing, a triumphant “against the odds” inspired by true events underdog...
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Cate Marquis | February 9, 2024
THE TASTE OF THINGS – Review
Warning: Don’t see this film hungry! Delicious shots of delicious food in a luscious landscape fill the French...
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Cate Marquis | February 9, 2024
THE TEACHERS LOUNGE – Review
There is something going on in the teachers’ lounge, which goes way beyond school walls, in the thriller-like...
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Jim Batts | February 8, 2024
SUNCOAST – Review
With 2024 only about six weeks old, filmgoers are getting a very interesting family comedy/drama that isn’t a...