Tag: Review
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High Hopes and Uncertain Futures in ‘Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul.’ and ‘Funny Pages’
Reviewing a new satire and a coming-of-age comedy.
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‘Brubaker’ is Admirable But Thin
‘Brubaker’ comes to epitomize what beleaguers so many so-called message movies: elucidating the macro issue of the hour with such hyperfixation that anything on the micro remains decorative.
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The Helter-Skelter Brilliance of ‘Bone’
In typical fashion for writer-director Larry Cohen, ‘Bone’ is as prone to incisiveness as feeling like it’s going to fly off the rails and fall apart.
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Strange New Worlds in ‘Three Thousand Years of Longing’ and ‘Spin Me Round’
George Miller’s first movie since ‘Mad Max: Fury Road’ and Jeff Baena’s latest comedy trifle, reviewed.
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Misery Loves Company: On Phoebe Bridgers at Marymoor
The 28-year-old singer-songwriter is playing two sold-out dates at the Redmond venue this week.
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‘The Cassandra Crossing’ is a Disaster-Movie Turducken
‘The Cassandra Crossing’ is among the cruelest of disaster movies.
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‘Summertime’ is an All-Time-Great Romantic Film
An American touching foreign land and getting “healed” in some way is a tired trope. But ‘Summertime’ energizes it.
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Short Takes: ‘Bodies Bodies Bodies,’ ‘Sharp Stick,’ and ‘Emily the Criminal’
A slasher movie, a sex comedy, and a crime thriller.
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‘On the Beach’: Seeking a Friend for the End of the World
The end of the world looms over Stanley Kramer’s ‘On the Beach.’
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A Vacation from Hell in ‘A Perfect Getaway’
‘The Perfect Getaway’ isn’t perfect, but no vacations are.
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‘Cabin Fever’ Never Quite Comes Together
The one truly effective thing about ‘Cabin Fever’ is Scott Kevan’s cinematography.
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‘Bullet Train’ is a Wreck
But ‘Prey’ jolts the long-ailing ‘Predator’ franchise awake.
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