Tag: Review
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Florence Pugh is a Knockout in ‘Lady Macbeth’
Decades from now, Pugh’s work in ‘Lady Macbeth’ might garner a sort of ‘legendary starring debut’ status.
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‘Commando’ is a Fun Star Vehicle for Arnold Schwarzenegger
This is paint-by-numbers action at its best: it knows what its viewers expect of it and delivers.
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‘Personal Best’ Takes the Sports Movie to New Heights
‘Personal Best’ accomplishes many things and well, but among the most impressive of its achievements is that is also functions, almost off-handedly, as a paean to the undersung and the could-have-beens.
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The Unpredictable Menace of ‘The Prowler’
‘The Prowler’ is a red herring of a title until it isn’t anymore.
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‘A Chinese Ghost Story’ Feels Like It Could Be Recounted Over a Campfire
Just like how even told-to-death, campfire-baiting ghost stories never truly get old if told the right way, movies like ‘A Chinese Ghost Story’ don’t either.
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‘Trouble in Mind’ is Cold to the Touch
‘Trouble in Mind’ is in a state of used to be.
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‘Logan’s Run’ is an Intriguing Dystopian Thriller
The seriousness of the world-building and concepts is at odds with the look of the movie.
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‘Conan the Barbarian’: The Movie That Made Arnold Schwarzenegger a Star
This is a project manifestly as interested in thrill-giving as it is in milieu-building.
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‘Boom!’: Better Than Its Rep
It’s an anomaly in the bad-movie canon in that many of its detractors recognize that it’s a special kind of bad.
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On ‘The Hidden’
‘The Hidden’ is a standard-enough cop thriller though more so feels like the kind of old-fashioned chase movie American International Pictures used to make, just with a sci-fi edge.
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‘Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice’ is a Brainy Sex Comedy
On Paul Mazursky’s 1969 comedy classic.
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‘Wild Rose’: A Star is Born
Buckley gives the kind of performance that might make you cry.
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