Out in Theaters: ‘THE MOUNTAIN BETWEEN US’
Leads Idris Elba and Kate Winslet are thoroughly solid in ‘The Mountain Between Us’ but the romantic angles of the film feel forced and awkward and as the film pivots…
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Out in Theaters: ‘BATTLE OF THE SEXES’
Feminist feel-good sports drama ‘Battle of the Sexes’ features a game-set-match of a performance from Emma Stone and sturdy, goony support from Steve Carrell while making some important points sadly…
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Out in Theaters: ‘AMERICAN MADE’
Crackling editing, a gum-grin Tom Cruise performance and eye-catching direction from Doug Liman make ‘American Made’ an easily consumable serving of anti-hero biopic. Telling the story of CIA-operative-turned-drug-smuggler Barry Seal,…
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Out in Theaters: ‘STRONGER’
A serviceable biopic with a strongish lead performance by Jake Gyllenhaal, ‘Stronger’ fails to overcome the drawn-out emotional and physical rehab elements that define the picture, resulting in a tedious…
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Out in Theaters: ‘KINGSMAN: THE GOLDEN CIRCLE’
Stylized and silly with innumerable potholes to boot, there’s little beneath 'Kingsman: The Golden Circle'’s gilded surface that warrants a return to the field. Mimicking the first film without adding…
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Out in Theaters: ‘THIRST STREET’
A hallucinatory psychosexual-thriller/twisted-rom-com ‘Thirst Street’ will undoubtedly remain one of the year’s best undiscovered gems. With an ace up his sleeve in star Lindsay Burdge, director Nathan Silver tells this…
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Out in Theaters: ‘mother!’
'mother!' is not the movie you think it is but it remains one of 2017’s most provocative and engaging examples of auteur filmmaking. Captivating and challenging, brutal and bloodcurdling, steeped in…
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Out in Theaters: ‘IT’
Pants-shitting scares though this may lack, 'It' thrives on Bill Skarsgård's monstrously unsettling portrayal of Pennywise, a perpetually unnerving tone and strong sense of setting, an awesome cast of young performers…
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Out in Theaters: ‘THE TRIP TO SPAIN’
Dastardly duo Rob Brydon and Steve Coogan travel the globe once more, feasting and joshing in their can't be replicated style. As the third entry in under seven years, 'The…
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Out in Theaters: ‘PATTI CAKE$’
'Patti Cake$' samples a familiar beat but gives it a whole new spin, led by a wowing record scratch of a performance from newcomer Danielle Macdonald. Though proudly flaunting double flipped-off…