Gifted (2017) ☆ ☆ ☆ 1/2

Good writing avoids cliché and provides characters with intelligent, interesting things to say.  It can lift the mundane to the profound, and the routine to the special.  Tom Flynn’s script for Gifted is largely exceptional, avoiding obvious benchmarks in favor of […]

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Life (2017) ☆ ☆ ☆

I’ve been looking forward to this movie since I first saw the preview months ago.  It’s like John Carpenter’s The Thing (1982), set on the International Space Station, with the terror of the first Alien (1979) thrown in for good measure.  For […]

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