Political dramas are tricky to execute, especially in these socially divided times. Some try to tell stories with a balanced approach, which is quite admirable, but that is an even trickier proposition. And some, like The Trial of the Chicago 7 […]
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Unfrosted (2024) ☆ 1/2
Comedy is serious business, so they say. Here you have a legendary comic talent — Jerry Seinfeld — who has the idea, co-writes the script and directs the film, gathering as many friends and associates into the fold as he […]
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After the last episode of this series, which I thought was one of the greatest action movies I have ever seen and rated it four stars, I expected greatness from this one, a film which may mark the end of […]
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It’s always a pleasure when a movie comes along and succeeds your expectations. I wasn’t expecting much of this nondescript comedy-drama, which looked to be about the hazards of aging in America — something about which I am becoming all […]
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Regional films are a largely unsung and poorly remembered segment of American cinema. These are films made by people outside of the usual Hollywood cadre, usually made on the cheap, using local scenery and color to tell stories with strong […]
Continue reading »Trap (2024) ☆ ☆ 1/2
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 […]
Continue reading »The Dead Don’t Hurt (2023) ☆ ☆ 1/2
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 […]
Continue reading »Thunderbolts* (2025) ☆ ☆
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 […]
Continue reading »Joy Ride (2023) ☆ ☆
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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