Out in Theaters: ‘MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS’
Not worth boarding, 'Murder on the Orient Express' has a heck of a time investing audiences in its rather unengaging mystery. A talky whodunit whose dialogue is often stiff and…
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Out in Theaters: ‘THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURI’
'Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri' has smacks of knifelike dark comedy, a handful of brilliant performances (all hail Frances McDormand!) and a director (Martin McDonagh) back on the tippy-top of his…
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Out in Theaters: ‘LADY BIRD’
Greta Gerwig’s ‘Lady Bird’ guides Saorsie Ronan through a rebellious phase of teenagedom with stinging humor and a good dose of pathos. Sensitive, charming and at times painful, ‘Lady Bird’…
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Out in Theaters: ‘THOR: RAGNAROK’
Pulsing with side-splitting energy, 'Thor: Ragnarok' thrives working outside the boundaries of the tightly wound, hawkishly overlorded Marvel Cinematic Universe. A neon-plated smear of laughs bursting with colorful characters and jaw-dangling…
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Out in Theaters: ‘MOST BEAUTIFUL ISLAND’
A deeply unsettling and suspenseful tone poem about the challenges of finding your way in the Big Apple as an immigrant, Ana Asensio’s ‘Most Beautiful Island’ is a sinister experiment…
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Out in Theaters: ‘SUBURBICON’
An embarrassing Coens-inspired trainwreck, ‘Suburicon’ tries to be a dark, murder-filled satire on the “wholesome” 50’s but the saliency of an undercooked and discordant racial integration subplot derails George Clooney’s…
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Out in Theaters: ‘THE KILLING OF A SACRED DEER’
Like a demented and brilliant episode of ‘The Twilight Zone’, The Killing of a Sacred Deer posits a reality off its axis in elusive and dangerous ways. This pitch black…
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Talking With Sean Baker of ‘THE FLORIDA PROJECT’
Sean Baker. A man so humble that when I inaccurately stated the number of films he’s made, he not only didn’t not turn up his nose at me, he actually ran to his hotel room to grab me copies of the films I had missed. So it probably comes as little surprise that this man,...
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Out in Theaters: ‘THE SNOWMAN’
A frigid disaster of a serial killer thriller, ‘The Snowman’ does just about everything wrong. Pulling from a frightfully terrible script and featuring enough tangled squalls of logic to cause…
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Out in Theaters: ‘THE FLORIDA PROJECT’
A powerful punch of empathic, humanist, character-driven cinema, 'The Florida Project' boasts a trifecta of sublime performances (Brooklyn Prince, Bria Vinaite, Willem Dafoe) but its subtle storytelling and triumphant edge…