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Film Review: “Rebecca” Remade — Pretty But Unnecessary

October 27, 2020
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What is the problem with this Rebecca? It is stunning to look at and well-crafted, but I sometimes felt as though the actors were striving for a tone more suitable to a film other than the one they were in.

WATCH CLOSELY: “Lovecraft Country” — Blackness, Blackness, All Is Blackness

October 12, 2020
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Lovecraft Country is quite a thrill ride at times, its heady balance of realism and fantasy spiced up with an intoxicating dose of science fiction and time travel.

TV Review: “Ratched” — A Sensational Sartorial Folly

September 18, 2020
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Ratched is lurid, violent, sexually explicit, outrageous, and has nothing whatsoever to do with Ken Kesey’s novel or Milos Forman’s award-winning film adaptation.

Film Review: “The Devil All the Time” — Bad Things Happen, Over and Over Again

September 13, 2020
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This may be the year’s best ensemble cast, and that goes a long way towards making this multi-layered melodrama accessible and compelling.

Film Review: “I’m Thinking of Ending Things” — The Blues of Existence

September 5, 2020
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You may not know what you’re feeling or what to think about what you’ve seen afterward. This is a rare experience in cinema to be savored, or at the very least highly valued.

Film Review: “Unhinged” — Relentless Road Rage

August 29, 2020
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Unhinged is one of the most violent films I’ve seen in recent memory where there is no excessive gun play. But who needs bullets when you are driving a two ton projectile powered by an endless, roiling fount of rage?

Film Review: “The Pale Door” — Open and Shut

August 24, 2020
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The Pale Door, following in the steps of so many horror films these days, spoils a promising premise via a contrived and uneven story line.

Film Review: Shudder’s “Host” — Solitary and Scary

August 19, 2020
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It’s entertainment genius to turn our new normal into something topical and terrifying.

Film Review: “Summerland” — Dreams Delayed

August 5, 2020
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While there’s plenty of wistful romance and character-driven conflict to keep Summerland rolling along, the narrative isn’t exactly plausible.

Arts Remembrance: Director Alan Parker — A Sensitive and Versatile Master of Film

August 2, 2020
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It gradually became clear to me by the mid-’80s that Alan Parker films were, more than those of any other filmmaker, an integral part of my identity as a film lover.

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