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Review: ‘Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom’Chadwick Boseman And Viola Davis Highlight A Big, Bold, Bluesy...

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It's tough to watch Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, George C. Wolfe's adaptation of the August Wilson play, without recognizing it as the final screen...

Review: ‘Wander Darkly’Sienna Miller And Diego Luna Lead A Trippy Romance Wrapped In An...

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Like a grim reflection of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Tara Miele's absorbing-but-unfocused Wander Darkly explores memory, trauma, and grief through the lens...

Review: ‘Wild Mountain Thyme’The Irish Eyes Aren't Smiling On Emily Blunt And Jamie Dornan...

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So many cliches. So many awful Irish accents, including one from a genuine Irishman. John Patrick Shanley's Wild Mountain Thyme, an adaptation of his...

Review: ‘Let Them All Talk’Steven Soderbergh Steers Meryl Streep Through A Leisurely Story Of...

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The delicious irony of Steven Soderbergh's breezy return to form, Let Them All Talk, is that nobody is trying to say much of anything....

Review: ‘The Midnight Sky’George Clooney's Melancholic, Muddled Sci-Fi Drama Fails To Launch

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I know they never really went away, but does it feel like every movie nowadays deals with a global catastrophe that wipes out humanity?...

‘The Mandalorian’ Season 2 Episode 7 Review: “The Believer”

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Somehow this episode wasn't titled "The Unmasked", but it probably should've been. Following two straight weeks of fan-servicey reveals, and one kidnapped Grogu, this...

Review: ‘Skylin3s’Quietly One Of The Best Sci-Fi Franchises Around

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Little did I, or anyone for that matter, know that 2010's forgettable alien invasion film Skyline would be the launch of one of the...

Review: ‘Promising Young Woman’Carey Mulligan Demands To Be Heard In Raging #MeToo Revenge Tale

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NOTE: This is a reprint of my review from the Sundance Film Festival.* If Emerald Fennell’s raging #MeToo era revenge film Promising Young Woman was just Carey...

Review: ‘Greenland’Gerard Butler's Latest Disaster Thriller Benefits From Small-Scale Focus

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While Greenland may look like the typical "Gerard Butler saves the world from disaster" movie, it's definitely a cut above. Directed by Ric Roman...

Review: ‘Fatale’Hilary Swank Twists Michael Ealy Into Knots In Deon Taylor's Latest Racially-Charged Thriller

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The erotic, jilted lover genre is well-worn, with most modern permutations rooted in the classic Fatal Attractions. That's quite clearly evident in the title...