Tag: Review
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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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Soulmates
On ‘Girlfriends’ and ‘Old Boyfriends.’
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Alfre Woodard is Astounding in ‘Clemency’
‘Clemency’ is ultimately meant to be taken in as a pragmatic advocacy drama.
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Deep Cuts
The last two installments of Steve McQueen’s Small Axe anthology.
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Age of Excess
On ‘Wonder Woman 1984.’
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‘The Touch’: An Affair to Remember
Before ‘Scenes from a Marriage’ came ‘The Touch.’
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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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‘The Wolf of Snow Hollow’ Finds Jim Cummings Doing More of the Same
What is it with Cummings’ affinity for the small-town cop in the middle of a personal crisis?
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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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It’s Easy to Imagine ‘Little Murders’ Worked Better on the Stage
The second half of the movie isn’t as lopsidedly appealing as its first.
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The Thrilling Unpredictability of ‘Black Bear’
It’s fun to see how things unravel — and how they’ll deviate from our immediate expectations.
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