Movie Review: ‘We Believe in Dinosaurs’
“This is a fossil created during Noah’s flood,” says Doug Henderson, lead exhibit designer at the Creation Museum. He’s referencing a complete Allosaurus ...
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Movie Review: ‘Stuck’
New musical Stuck, directed by Michael Berry and adapted from the stage production of the stage name, purports to teach us that we ...
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Movie Review: ‘The Chaperone’
Louise Brooks was an icon of the Jazz Age, a trendsetting star of the silent screen whose bob hairstyle and short skirts became ...
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PFF 2019 Movie Review: ‘Little Woods’
Like the other residents of Little Woods, North Dakota, Oleander “Ollie” King (Tessa Thompson) does what she needs to survive. In the past, ...
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PFF 2019 Movie Review: ‘All is True’
You’d be hard-pressed to find a bigger fan of William Shakespeare than Academy Award nominee Kenneth Branagh: for thirty years, he’s been directing ...
Movie Review: ‘Pet Sematary’
Stephen King is arguably the most well-known horror writer of all time, and certainly the most successful, but Hollywood adaptations of his work ...
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Movie Review: ‘Unicorn Store’
“I don’t know how to be a grownup” laments Kit (Brie Larson) about halfway through Unicorn Store, a candy-coated comedy whose central character’s ...
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Movie Review: ‘Dumbo’
Over the past few years, Walt Disney Studios has taken a number of characters and stories from their animated classics and updated them ...
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Second Opinon: ‘Shazam’ Review
The doom and gloom of the DC Extended Universe’s first few efforts is beginning to feel like a distant memory, and the course ...
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Movie Review: ‘The Dirt’
The past few years have sparked something of a resurgence in music biopics, with Hollywood tackling subjects ranging from Beach Boys genius Brian ...
Movie Review: ‘Us’
Sketch comedy star Jordan Peele shocked the world with his 2017 directorial debut Get Out, a brilliant undertaking that was equal parts thriller, ...
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Movie Review: ‘The Hummingbird Project’
Making an engaging film about the mundane details of Wall Street trading is no easy feat. Adam McKay managed to pull it off ...
DVD & Blu-Ray Reviews
Blu-Ray Review: ‘Mary Poppins Returns’
Taking a break from its ongoing quest to update each of its classic animated films into live-action/CG hybrids, Walt Disney Studios dusts off ...
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SXSW 2019 Movie Review: ‘The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley’
“I don’t have many secrets,” says Elizabeth Holmes in the opening moments of Alex Gibney’s riveting new documentary, The Inventor: Out for Blood ...
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SXSW 2019 Movie Review: ‘Mr. Jimmy’
In a crowded, dimly lit Tokyo club, a guitarist rips through nearly three hours of Led Zeppelin covers. But the versions of “Stairway ...
Movie Review: ‘Captain Marvel’
Despite a whopping twenty films under its banner, the Marvel Cinematic Universe is a bit late to the party when it comes to ...
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Movie Review: ‘Fighting With My Family’
Ask a random person on the street if they can name a WWE Superstar, and their response would likely be a name like ...
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Sundance 2019 Movie Review: ‘Big Time Adolescence’
Many of us can recall someone older (and allegedly wiser) telling us that our teenage years would be the best of our lives, ...
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Sundance 2019 Movie Review: ‘The Nightingale’
The Nightingale, Jennifer Kent’s follow-up to her 2014 horror hit The Babadook, is far removed from the supernatural scares of her previous work. ...
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Sundance 2019 Movie Review: ‘Them That Follow’
A rumination on the dangers of zealotry and blind devotion to faith, Them That Follow centers on Mara (Alice Englert), a young woman ...
Sundance 2019 Movie Review: ‘Little Monsters’
Little Monsters opens with a series of arguments between Dave (Alexander England) and his longtime girlfriend, the last of which results in him ...
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Sundance 2019 Movie Review: ‘Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile’
Veteran documentarian Joe Berlinger — best known for the Paradise Lost trilogy, covering the arrest, incarceration and eventual release of the West Memphis ...
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Sundance 2019 Movie Review: ‘Stieg Larsson: The Man Who Played With Fire’
Stieg Larsson may not quite be a household name, but anyone privileged enough to have read The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo will ...
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Movie Review: ‘Glass’
When the final moments of M. Night Shyamalan’s Split revealed that the events of the film took place in the same universe as ...
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Movie Review: ‘Widows’
Far removed from the intimate and introspective dramatic efforts like Hunger and Shame that began his directorial career, or the Oscar-winning historical tale ...
Movie Review: ‘The Girl in the Spider’s Web: A New Dragon Tattoo Story’
It’s a shame that David Fincher never had the opportunity to continue the story of Lisbeth Salander after his excellent remake of The ...
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Movie Review: ‘Suspiria’
Told in “six acts and an epilogue set in divided Berlin” as a title card helpfully explains, Luca Guadagnino’s Suspiria is less a ...
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Movie Review: ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’
Queen frontman Freddie Mercury is one of the most beloved and recognizable figures in rock history, known for his lavish costumes and flamboyant ...
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Movie Review: ‘Mid90s’
When we first meet 13-year-old Stevie (Sunny Suljic), he’s being hurled into a wall and pummeled mercilessly by his older brother Ian (Lucas ...
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Movie Review: ‘First Man’
From the opening moments of First Man, it’s clear that director Damien Chazelle has set out to depict space travel in a way ...
Movie Review: ‘Assassination Nation’
The opening moments of Assassination Nation, director Sam Levinson’s no-holds-barred indictment of the toxicity that permeates so much of our modern culture, warns viewers ...
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Movie Review: ‘Lizzie’
The story of Lizzie Borden, the 32-year-old woman who allegedly butchered her family with an axe in the late 1800s, has been told ...
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Movie Review: ‘A Simple Favor’
Best known for female-driven, laugh-out-loud comedies like Bridesmaids and The Heat, director Paul Feig brings his signature brand of humor – albeit noticeably ...
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Movie Review: ‘The Equalizer 2’
If you scroll through Denzel Washington’s lengthy resume, one thing you won’t find is a sequel: the two-time Academy Award winner has never ...
