Tag: Review
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‘Breaking News’: Great Action Filmmaking with Pointed Critiques
Johnnie To’s 2004 thriller hosts both exemplary action sequences and sharp indictments of the police and media.
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‘I Love Boosters’ is Thematically Resonant, Narratively Muddled Fun
Rapper-turned-filmmaker Boots Riley’s long-awaited feature-length follow-up to 2018’s ‘Sorry to Bother You’ is amiable but a little all over the place.
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Demi Lovato Knows How to Command a Room
For 425: The 33-year-old pop star sounded better than ever at her Climate Pledge Arena show this week.
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‘Blue Heron’ is a Mosaic-Like Memory Movie
Sophy Romvari’s feature-length debut continues the affecting, understated personal excavations of her acclaimed short films.
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Loving and Hating ‘Soapdish’
The 1991 comedy is a delightful send-up of the soap-opera world. Then its ending comes.
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‘City on Fire’: More Than Just a ‘Reservoir Dogs’ Reference
Ringo Lam’s fifth movie of the 1980s winds up being far more serious than its Looney Tunes-inflected first couple of acts would lead you to believe.
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The Body Horrors of ‘Mother Mary’ and ‘Agon’
For South Sound: New movies from David Lowery and Giulio Bertelli, reviewed.
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‘The Stuff’’s Evocative Stupidity
The 1985 film’s persistent illogic and ever-present suggestion that it’s going to fly off the rails make it come across as an up-is-down nightmare heightening real fears.
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Up to No Good
‘The Christophers,’ ‘The Stranger,’ and ‘Two Women,’ reviewed.
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Something’s Missing from ‘The Drama’
For 425: Kristoffer Borgli’s dark comedy is enjoyably prickly and queasily funny, but it’s surprisingly hesitant about fully engaging with its off-kilter premise.
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Different Angles
‘Steal This Story, Please!’ and ‘Palestine 36,’ reviewed.
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The Paranoid Corporate Games of ‘Black Test Car’
The pitilessness of Yasuzo Masumura’s black comedy continues to ring true more than six decades after its release.
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