All posts tagged "Thriller"
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Jim Batts | October 23, 2020
SYNCHRONIC – Review
Okay, fright fans, Halloween’s just days away, how about a nice dose of the shivers? And maybe a...
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Jim Batts | August 21, 2020
UNHINGED (2020) – Review
In the realm of classic animated shorts, many plots hinged on the main character (often the “series star”)...
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Jim Batts | July 23, 2020
THE RENTAL (2020) – Review
It looks like whatever crystal ball (maybe more of a big fishbowl) Hollywood was consulting certainly proved it’s...
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Cate Marquis | June 22, 2020
7500 – Review
7500 is the code that airlines use for a hijacking, and hijacking is the subject of Amazon’s drama/thriller...
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Jim Batts | January 10, 2020
UNDERWATER – Review
A casual glance at this film’s poster art may lead you to think you’re headed back to the...
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Jim Batts | November 26, 2019
DARK WATERS (2019) – Review
Summer’s not the only season where heroes rule the multiplex. Well, that’s the main time for the fictional,...
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Jim Batts | November 21, 2019
21 BRIDGES – Review
Here’s a nice little break from the serious award-bait winter films and the heart-tugging holiday family flicks. I’m...
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Jim Batts | November 21, 2019
THE IRISHMAN – Review
This is the ‘big one”. Really, there may be no other way to truly describe this new epic...
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Cate Marquis | August 16, 2019
THE NIGHTINGALE – Review
The writer/director of THE BABADOOK, Jennifer Kent, follows up the chilling horror film with a gripping drama set...
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Cate Marquis | August 2, 2019
SWORD OF TRUST – Review
There’s a sword but not much trust at the start of Lynn Shelton’s oddball indie comedy SWORD OF...
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Cate Marquis | May 17, 2019
WHITE CROW – Review
A “white crow” is a Russian idiom meaning a misfit, an oddball, someone who does not fit the...
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Cate Marquis | February 22, 2019
EVERYBODY KNOWS – Review
Penelope Cruz plays a Spanish-born woman who returns with her two children to the rural Spanish village where...
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Cate Marquis | January 18, 2019
DESTROYER – Review
This is not how we are used to seeing Nicole Kidman. Kidman plays snarling, violent, even grizzled...
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Cate Marquis | September 21, 2018
I THINK WE’RE ALONE NOW – Review
Peter Dinklage plays a man who has made a comfortable life alone in a post-apocalyptic world where he...
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Cate Marquis | September 21, 2018
LIZZIE – Review
Lizzie Borden and the gruesome murders of her parents remain in the public imagination, due in part to...
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Cate Marquis | June 29, 2018
SICARIO 2 DAY OF THE SOLDADO – Review
“Sicario” means a hitman in Mexico, and the U.S.-Mexico border is the setting for the violent thriller SICARIO...
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Cate Marquis | June 4, 2018
SHELTER – JFF 2018 Review
St. Louis Jewish Film Festival at Plaza Frontenac Cinema Monday, June 4, at 7 pm Israel • English,...
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Cate Marquis | April 11, 2018
BEIRUT – Review
Jon Hamm finally gets the leading man role he has long deserved, in the Middle East-set thriller BEIRUT....