Out in Theaters: ‘LIZZIE’
Performance-driven and mightily restrained, sometimes to a fault, 'Lizzie' is a thoughtful biography of a madwoman, or rather, a woman driven mad by her times. Fastened by strong performances from…
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Out in Theaters: ‘WHITE BOY RICK’
'White Boy Rick' tells a fascinating true story in underwhelming fashion, touting strong performances and compelling dialogue but lacking any significant depth or emotional involvement.
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Out in Theaters: ‘THE PREDATOR’
‘The Predator’ is the cinematic equivalent of chugging a case of beer, getting naked, and fighting cars. It’s pointless and ridiculous and at times even painful but it’s also a…
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Out in Theaters: ‘MANDY’
‘Mandy’, about Nic Cage exacting gory insano revenge on a Christian murder cult, is a slow-motion gallop into the pits of hell and cinematic excess. Its singular lunacy is at…
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Out in Theaters: ‘THE NUN’
Frustratingly flabby and flabbergastingly frightless, ‘The Nun’ boasts an eerie setting, strong performers, some well-timed comedic beats and various strokes of great potential only to flatline into a bunch of…
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Out in Theaters: ‘MILE 22’
‘Mile 22’ is a milestone for tone-deaf propaganda action cinema, haphazardly aggrandizing violence and "America first" policies in this shrieky MAGA hat of a movie. Mark Wahlberg is insufferable in…
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Out in Theaters: ‘THE MEG’
‘The Meg’ is at once aggressively stupid and aggressively banal, suffering a bad-to-the-bone script and some truly ghastly performances. The mega-shark action can be a shot of campy adrenaline when…
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Out in Theaters: ‘SUMMER OF 84’
Rudderless “dark” teen mystery ‘Summer of 84’ lacks originality, scares, mystery, and good acting, hoping its hackneyed throwback nature will override its basic lack of storytelling skill. It doesn't.
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Out in Theaters: ‘MISSION IMPOSSIBLE: FALLOUT’
‘Mission Impossible: Fallout’ is action movie heroin. Impossibly entertaining, grittier and more artful than its forebearers while still maintaining its smarmy roguish charms, 'Fallout' is the result of mind-blowing technical…
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Talking with Bo Burnham and Elsie Fisher of ‘EIGHTH GRADE’
Festival darling Eighth Grade is another critical, and now low-flying commercial, score for studio A24 as well as a massive coming out party for writer-director Bo Burnham and star Elsie Fischer. Telling the story of Kayla, a perfectly average 13-year old girl with an unvisited YouTube channel and a quiet streak at school, as she...