SUNDANCE 2020: Benh Zeitlin’s Gritty Pan Redux ’WENDY’ A Gorgeous Hot Mess
Sundance 2020 review of 'Wendy' directed by Behn Zeitlin and starring Devin France.
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SUNDANCE 2020: Humanist Spy Thriller ’IRONBARK’ Is On a Mission to Move You
Sundance 2020 review of 'Ironbark' directed by Dominic Cooke and starring Benedict Cumberbatch.
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SUNDANCE 2020: Rebecca Hall Is Next Level Good in the Scariest Ghost Story in Years: ‘THE NIGHT HOUSE’
Sundance 2020 review of horror movie 'The Night House' directed by David Bruckner and starring Rebecca Hall.
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SUNDANCE 2020: Giggly Horror-Comedy ‘SCARE ME’ Finds New Ways to Tell Old Stories
Sundance 2020 review of 'Scare Me' written, directed by, and starring Josh Ruben.
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SUNDANCE 2020: ‘COME AWAY’ Scrambles Its Fantasy Fiction, Fails to Appeal to Both Adults and Kids
Sundance 2020 review of 'Come Away' from director Brenda Chapman and starring David Oyelowo and Angelina Jolie.
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SUNDANCE 2020: Well-Intentioned Slam Poetry Misfire ‘SUMMERTIME’ Has Zero Commercial Appeal
Sundance 2020 review of 'Summertime' from director Carlos López Estrada.
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‘THE GENTLEMEN’ Review
THE VERDICT: I absolutely loved The Gentlemen. It’s hip and hilarious. Punchy and penetrating. It can be a mean film but it means well. Its central goal is to keep…
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‘UNDERWATER’ is Peak Incoherent January Hollywood Flotsam
Perfect for fans who love both bad sci-fi rip-offs and TJ Miller comedy, Underwater is often a spectacularly incoherent mess you can’t help but snicker at. 20,000 leagues below the…
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FYC Capsule Review: ‘JUST MERCY’
A punched-up Lifetime movie with a laudable cast, Destin Daniel Cretton’s Just Mercy is a courtroom procedural where the message burns brighter than the filmmaking. A predictable affair with limited…
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FYC Capsule Review: ‘BOMBSHELL’
Like Adam McKay before him, Jay Roach has shifted from the world of comedy to that of the didactic and politically-tinted American drama and with the effective and affecting Bombshell, his…