Out in Theaters: ‘DETROIT’
It pains me to say that what should have been one of the most important films of 2017 ultimately had me reflecting on the back catalog of Eli Roth. Not…
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Out in Theaters: ‘ATOMIC BLONDE’
And that apartment building fight is as good as anything the action genre has produced this decade.
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Out in Theaters: ‘VALERIAN AND THE CITY OF A THOUSAND PLANETS’
There are a thousand planets represented on Alpha Station after all, very much like there were a thousand corpses in Rob Zombie's freshman horror film House of a Thousand Corpses.…
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Out in Theaters: ‘DUNKIRK’
Sure to leave you visibly shell-shocked, ‘Dunkirk’ is an outstanding war epic that brings together three tales of survival amidst chaos in such briskly edited, extraordinarily structured fashion that you…
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Out in Theaters: ‘SPIDER-MAN: HOMECOMING’
‘Spider-Man: Homecoming’ is a fine entry in the MCU, a superior option to any of the last three Spider-Man efforts, but Jon Watts’ vision doesn’t top Sam Raimi’s nor does his…
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Out in Theaters: ‘WAR FOR THE PLANET OF THE APES’
A masterclass in blockbuster filmmaking, ‘War for the Planet of the Apes’ is that improbably rare summer movie that forces you to think, feel and interact with it on the…
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Out in Theaters: ‘BABY DRIVER’
A splashy one-of-a-kind action musical, Edgar Wright’s ‘Baby Driver’ is a rip-roaring hell of a time where the flash admittedly overshadows the familiar narrative but the style is so unique…
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Out in Theaters: ‘TRANSFORMERS: THE LAST KNIGHT’
Enduring ‘Transformers: The Last Knight’ - enduring being the only appropriate way to describe consuming this living migraine - is tantamount to torture. Michael Bay’s fifth Transformers “movie” not only…
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Out in Theaters: ‘THE BOOK OF HENRY’
Colin Trevorrow’s The Book of Henry is a tricksy page-turner, one that clubs you upside the head with eye-popping twists and heartrending turns at the expense of emotional earnestness. Fastidious…
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SIFF ’17 Capsule Review: ‘PYROMANIAC’
A brightly burning ode to a troubled firestarter who happens to be the son of the fire chief in a small Norwegian village of about 800, Pyromaniac is an unsettling if unfulfilling character study. This mysterious slow-burn is more interested in the human drama than the narrative twists it sets up but fails to satisfyingly reveals...