For a brief time writer-director M. Night Shyamalan was the toast of Hollywood, made so by the creative and commercial success of The Sixth Sense and a few other titles after that.  That was more than twenty years ago.  He has […]

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Mel Gibson has made some epic films as a director, and is as accomplished as an actor-turned-director can be.  Braveheart and Hacksaw Ridge prove that point.  It is therefore surprising that he has undertaken this small-scale character-driven suspense film as his […]

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This review is going to be a little different from my others.  While I saw and enjoyed this quiet, contemplative western drama, I have one specific complaint about it, and, as it happens, the writer-director-star has directly addressed this particular […]

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Marvel Studios is still trying to find a way to rebuild its cinematic empire, something it has been unable to do since repairing the world at the end of Avengers: End Game, which was released six years ago.  A dozen or […]

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Four women, two of them friends since childhood, take an international adventure to help one of them reconnect with her birth mother.  Sounds like an inspiring story, right, perhaps a television movie of the week?  Wrong.  Not when these friends […]

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Some movies are just too ambitious for their own good.  Babylon sets itself up to be the ultimate tell-all on the early days of Hollywood, chronicling not just the journey from silent pantomime to stereo sound and Technicolor and beyond, […]

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I have friends who are psychologists or psychoanalysts and I suspect they would greatly enjoy this well-mounted drama.  Or perhaps they would see through it immediately and know precisely how it would conclude.  For me and the rest of us […]

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Nine years ago I saw the The Accountant and found it to be one of the best films of the year, rating it three-and-a-half stars.  I saw it again this past weekend and was amazed at how little I actually remembered […]

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Does it seem like I’m reviewing a whole lot of horror movies lately?  It sure does to me, because that’s what I’ve been seeing.  This newer psychological horror / suspense drama covers familiar ground as other post-apocalyptic thrillers while focusing […]

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Until I happened to research this film a little bit (after the fact) I was unaware that Five Nights at Freddy’s is based on a video game.  I didn’t know, and this is the first video game movie that really doesn’t […]

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