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Karate Kid: Mixed Up Martial Arts
Last week I reviewed a movie from a long-running franchise trying to at least put an end to an era. This week is Karate...
Hell or High Water: Texas Hold-Up
The big economic recession that hit eight years ago has inspired its share of films like 99 Homes and The Big Short, but even...
Film Shorts
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Nowitzki: The Perfect Shot (NR) Sebastian Dehnhardt’s documentary tracks the early career of the Dallas Mavericks superstar. Also with Holger Geschwindner, Mark Cuban, Steve...
When Evil Lurks: Patagonia Possession
Fifty years after The Exorcist broke new ground in horror cinema, a new movie about demonic possession comes to our multiplexes that’s fully in...
Film Shorts
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Z for Zachariah (PG-13) Craig Zobel (Compliance) adapts Robert C. O’Brien’s novel about three people (Chiwetel Ejiofor, Margot Robbie, and Chris Pine) who may...
Stories He Tells
Eight minutes. That’s how long it took. I suspected going into Third Person that I was going to hate it, so I decided to...
From Many, One Great Show
The latest series from Vince Gilligan (Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul), Pluribus dropped onto Apple TV last month with some mysterious advertising. That does the...
Black Swan: Danse Macabre
Black Swan closely observes the world of high culture, and yet its thrills are distinctly, trashily lowbrow. That’s a difficult balancing act to pull...
Film Shorts
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Cake (R) Jennifer Aniston stars in this drama as a disfigured woman who becomes obsessed with the suicide of one of the other patients...
R.I.P., Frederick Wiseman
This past Monday, the news came from Massachusetts that Frederick Wiseman passed away at the age of 96. Most of the film press was...
