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Category Archives: New Releases
Tom Skerritt in the moving drama East of the Mountains
A sense of foreboding suffuses East of the Mountains, a low-key drama based on a David Guterman novel. Set in the photogenic wilds of Washington’s Columbia Basin, the movie explores mortality in the person of an aging surgeon played by … Continue reading
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Here Are the Young Men: a lost summer in Dublin
Thanks in part to The Queen’s Gambit, Anya Taylor-Joy has become a big-enough star to dominate the poster for Here Are the Young Men, an otherwise forgettable coming-of-age drama streaming April 27 from Well Go USA Entertainment. Based on a … Continue reading
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SXSW returns online
Last year’s SXSW festival was underway when it fell victim to the pandemic lockdown. This year’s edition took place online, a necessary but regrettable compromise that doesn’t really satisfy anyone. On the plus side, titles previously out of bounds to … Continue reading
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Promising Young Woman on society’s ills
Criticize Promising Young Woman at your peril, as Variety discovered. Innocuous comments from Dennis Harvey about star Carey Mulligan ignited a firestorm of rebukes, some from Ms. Mulligan herself. The movie has more fundamental flaws than Ms. Mulligan’s performance, ranging … Continue reading
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Dante Lam’s action spectacle The Rescue: review
Director Dante Lam built his reputation on gritty action films like Beast Cops and The Viral Factor, works marked by relentless drive and exceptional action sequences. His last two films, Operation Mekong and Operation Red Sea, were huge hits in … Continue reading
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Let Them All Talk: Steven Soderbergh’s ocean liner experiment
A playful infomercial for the Cunard Line as much as a feature film, Let Them All Talk lets veterans indulge themselves in a bit of travel porn, all the more poignant in this lockdown era. Experimental in some of its … Continue reading
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Bella Thorne out for revenge in Girl
Shot on a bare-bones budget, Girl is a stripped-down revenge thriller with just enough plot to exceed expectations. Uniformly good performances help writer and director Chad Faust fashion a credible modern-day film noir that will not disappoint genre fans. Faust … Continue reading
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Jackie Chan returns in Vanguard: review
Thirty years ago Jackie Chan was the biggest movie star in the world. After conquering Asian markets, he embraced Hollywood in vehicles that tried to reproduce the action and humor of his Hong Kong movies. In recent years he has … Continue reading
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Monsoon review: Finding and changing identities
With its focus on character and attention to detail, Monsoon feels like a short story. Set in Vietnam, it follows thirty-something Kit (played by Henry Golding) as he arrives from Europe to settle his parents’ estate. Along the way he … Continue reading
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Steve McQueen on Lovers Rock
With covid-19 still uncontrolled, the 58th edition of the New York Film Festival gets underway September 25, running until October 11. A collaboration of sorts with the Toronto International Film Festival and the Venice Film Festival, this year’s schedule is … Continue reading
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