Category: Review
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‘Crossing Delancey’ is Like if a Rom-Com Plot Played Out in Real Life
‘Crossing Delancey’ suggests what might happen if the narrative of a romantic-comedy movie were grafted onto life — a place where the genre’s big emotions, plot contrivances, and sudden appearances of soulmates would naturally be a little overwhelming.
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‘Rush’: In Too Deep
‘Rush’ is about a pair of undercover cops who get so deep into the world they’re infiltrating that they almost can’t find their way out.
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‘Crooklyn’: A Family Portrait
The movie functions like an affectionately made collage.
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A Gumshoe’s Last Days in ‘The Late Show’
The movie focuses on a kind of private eye not often checked in on in detective fiction.
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‘Female Prisoner #701: Scorpion’ is an Electrifying Revenge Thriller
This movie has evidently been made by someone who had seen enough women-in-prison movies, enough revenge films, knew what both required/what drew people to them, and realized that you didn’t have to ascribe to their limitations if you knew they could be more.
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Age of Excess
On ‘Wonder Woman 1984.’
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‘I’m Your Woman’: A Nice Change of Pace
‘I’m Your Woman’ is a response to a hypothetical I’m sure has crossed many a viewer’s minds watching certain crime dramas. What would this movie look like if it unfolded from the point of view of its woman lead?
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‘Silent Night, Deadly Night’: Bad Santa
Underrepresented in the typically cheery holiday-movie subgenre is the person for whom the season is legitimately nightmarish. ‘Silent Night, Deadly Night’ has a character who more than makes up for their representational absence.
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Celebration
On ‘Mr. Soul’ and ‘Zappa.’
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‘Freaky”s Bonkers Premise Works Against the Odds
‘Freaky’’s frankly insane conceit works mostly because of Vaughn and Newton, equally fervent in making sure there isn’t a stuntishness to their acting.
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More Money, More Problems
On ‘Possessor’ and ‘The Nest.’
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Trouble is My Business
On ‘The Long Goodbye’ and ‘California Split.’
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