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The Best Movie Dialogue of 2020
Many of my traditional end-of-the-year film posts have been pushed to February for reasons I detailed in my Top 10 list, but I’m publishing...
The Top 10 Movies of 2020 (Part 1)
Ladies and gentlemen, I present the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences: the only people who want to make 2020 longer. This past...
Promising Young Woman: To Catch a Predator
Someone’s coming for you, all you rapists, sexual predators, and even you friends and colleagues who enable them. She doesn’t look like much, but...
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The Dissident (PG-13) This film by Oscar-winning documentarian Bryan Fogel (Icarus) investigates the murder of Saudi-American journalist Jamal Khashoggi and its subsequent cover-up by...
Soul: I Am Not Joe’s Body
Much is rightly being made about Soul being the first Pixar movie with a Black man as the main character. I don’t want to...
WW84: Christmas Wishes
For the sequel to Wonder Woman, Patty Jenkins finds a hook that she didn’t have for the previous film. The director makes Wonder Woman...
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Archenemy (NR) Joe Manganiello stars in this thriller as a man who claims to be a superhero from another dimension trapped on an Earth...
I’m Your Woman: Rogue Jean
Last year, Julia Hart caught my attention with her film Fast Color, and I’m still baffled why that science-fiction thriller didn’t get more attention....
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Archenemy (NR) Joe Manganiello stars in this thriller as a man who claims to be a superhero from another dimension trapped on an Earth...
The Prom: High School Musical
When Ryan Murphy was announced as the director of a filmed version of a recent Broadway musical, I and other watchers of his TV...
