Spoiler Alert: ‘THE MATRIX: RESURRECTIONS’ Is Not Good
Lana Wachowski has attempted to bring her beloved franchise back to life with ‘The Matrix: Resurrections’ but this third sequel has all the brains of Frankenstein. And the charm to…
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‘SPIDER-MAN: NO WAY HOME’ and The Multiverse of Monsters
A legacy sequel that overdelivers on its promise to wrangle the three generations of Spider-Man together, ‘Spider-Man: No Way Home’ is essentially a live-action Spider-Verse film that, while juggling a…
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Spielberg’s ‘WEST SIDE STORY’ Remake A Handsome, Emotionally Flat Spectacle
Steven Spielberg’s West Side Story is a definitional remake, one that pays too close attention to making every single element sing while forgetting to have a point of view, a…
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‘RED ROCKET’ is Magic Mike Meets Joe Dirt A.K.A. It’s Glorious
A Texan ballad of a dirtbag ex-porn star, ‘Red Rocket’ is a sidesplittingly funny and brutally honest character study from writer-director Sean Baker. Its uncomfortable subject matter will be a…
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Preposterous Doomsday Satire ‘DON’T LOOK UP’ Explodes With Snickers, Star Power
Adam McKay’s ‘Don’t Look Up’ boasts an outstanding ensemble cast with some of the biggest A-list stars on the planet to build a farcical “the sky is falling” dark comedy.…
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‘BEING THE RICARDOS’ A Lucille Ball Biopic Without Bite
‘Being the Ricardos’ is an only serviceable Lucille Ball biopic that overdelivers on narrative artifice and under-delivers on stakes. Though Nicole Kidman is the big awards contender, Javier Bardem is…
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Del Toro’s ‘Nightmare Alley’ A Sordid Tale of Geek Love and Snake Oil
A B-movie carny noir shot with the handsome care of a prestige picture, ‘Nightmare Alley’ is a gloomy product firmly in Del Toro’s wheelhouse, and the Oscar-winning director knows just…
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Paolo Sorrentino’s Autobiographical ‘HAND OF GOD’ Tells Teenage Dirty Little Secrets
Paolo Sorrentino's striking coming-of-age drama sinks into the gaiety of family history and the pangs of family tragedy as the hand of fate throws a young man's future into question.…
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‘HOUSE OF GUCCI’ A Funnier Than Expected But Tedious Tale of Fashion-Forward Betrayal
Ridley Scott delivers a petty crime epic that’s especially interested in melodrama and absurdist comedic beats. Gaga and Driver are strong but Jared Leto as aLittle Lord Fauntleroy in a…
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‘LICORICE PIZZA’ a Chaotic Meshugas of First Love in ’70s So-Cal
‘Licorice Pizza’ is a coming-of-age romantic-comedy that only Paul Thomas Anderson could tell. An anarchic swirl of memories and mood make for a unique, and uniquely hysterical, vision of the…