Out in Theaters: 10,000 KM
Compulsively watchable and at times very sexy, 10,000 km is overall an interesting and promising debut from first-time feature director Carlos Marques-Marcet. Whether or not you found the protagonists as…
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Out in Theaters: SELF/LESS
What should have been a thinker of a science fiction meditation on self and the concept of technology irrevocably altering that sense of sense, Self/Less turns tail on its high…
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Out in Theaters: TESTAMENT OF YOUTH
Testament of Youth stumbles at a few junctions along the way but it still packs quite an emotional punch. Further, it’s all anchored in a magnificent performance from Vikander -…
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Out in Theaters: THE GALLOWS
The result? The Gallows is a dumb, bad movie, filled with dumb, bad characters deserving of every bit of punishment that comes their way. However, I can’t flunk the movie…
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Documentary Dossier: AMY
I knew next to nothing about Winehouse’s life and music before entering the theater, but emerged feeling as though I had known her through all her struggles. I could easily…
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TRUE DETECTIVE Season 2 Episode 3 Review “Maybe Tomorrow”
The Conway Twitty impersonator lip syncing “The Rose” deified by the David Lynchian purple blue nebula, may superficially seem like a cheap dressed up redneck mind-fuck, Lone-Star laced with LSD, as season two intentionally commits a slow suicide into the oblivious junkyard of one-hit wonders; not to mention the trippy and densely codified dialog between...
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Out in Theaters: THE SUICIDE THEORY
Additional redeeming features are spattered here and there. Mouzakis gives a highly commendable performance; his portrayal of Steven injects a necessary depth into a script otherwise lacking in momentum. However,…
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Out in Theaters: TERMINATOR: GENISYS
Further, the entire plot of Terminator: Thanks Jai Courtney is predicated on a twist to the original films' timeline and yet, incredibly, such an important piece of information is never…
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Out in Theaters: MAGIC MIKE XXL
This shortcoming is forgiven in the face of an engulfing wave of laugh-out loud eruptions, eye-boggling dance numbers and a crew of guys you pine to hang just one more…
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TRUE DETECTIVE Season 2 Episode 2 Review “Night Finds You”
The town of DaVinci looks like it’s day, but it’s really night–in other words, it was born in the darkness as it tries for the light. The first scene’s cold tint hangs over like the pallor of a corpse–literally, as Semyon’s (Vince Vaughn) introspection match cuts to Caspere’s melted eyes. Semyon’s abuse story isn’t just...