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I, Frankenstein (PG-13) Aaron Eckhart stars in this supernatural thriller as the mad scientist’s creation who has survived into the modern age to take...
West Side Story: Mambo!
I’m not a fan of the 1961 film of West Side Story. Sure, the dancing was fantastic, but the lead performances by Richard Beymer...
Sputnik: Passenger
For decades, Russian filmmakers have largely ignored the international audience. They’ve made films strictly for domestic moviegoers, because there have been enough of those...
Beats, Rhymes & Life: Rap Promoters
A Tribe Called Quest came along in the early 1990s, when hip-hop music was dominated by murderously petty feuds and aggressive braggadocio. In this...
But I’m a Cheer-leader
Fired Up is a comedy about cheerleading, which immediately places it in danger of being overshadowed. The makers of this film find a creative...
Film Shorts
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Blue Is the Warmest Color (NC-17) The controversial top-prize winner at this year’s Cannes Film Festival is Abdellatif Kechiche’s film about a 15-year-old French...
The Best Directing Debuts of 2017
Here we go with my continuing coverage of the year in movies, as I tote up the most impressive of the first-time feature directors...
Memoir of a Snail: Shelled
We need to have a moratorium on movie protagonists named Grace. To be clear, I have nothing against that name per se. It’s a...
John Wick: Last Man Standing
How many ways can you shoot a man in the face? John Wick: Chapter 3 — Parabellum has the answer: Three, just like the...
Film Shorts
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Safe House (R) Ryan Reynolds stars in this thriller as a young CIA agent charged with protecting an arrested traitor (Denzel Washington) after an...
