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Green Book | Nerds of Prey | Kay-B | While the [Green Book] gives us incredible performances ... I still found myself watching a film with some of the same stereotypical tropes. | 7/10 | 10 | 7 | 10 | false | 12 | 19 | 2 | 1,919 |
In a Relationship | Nerds of Prey | Shannon Miller | Boyd exchanges unrelenting sweetness and conveniently pretty endings for a quiet reminder of the messy uncertainty of evolving relationships. | 6/10 | 10 | 6 | 10 | false | 10 | 19 | 2 | 1,919 |
Monsters and Men | Nerds of Prey | Joi Childs | While some perspectives were more valuable than others, seeing the viewpoints of tragedy from people who are typically undervalued is a gift. And we shouldn't ignore it. | 8/10 | 10 | 8 | 10 | false | 14 | 19 | 2 | 1,919 |
Premature | Nerds of Prey | Joi Childs | Premature, if nothing else, successfully treads similar waters as Love Jones and Mo Better Blues before it while keeping the story relevant to its own time. | 7/10 | 10 | 7 | 10 | false | 12 | 19 | 2 | 1,919 |
Sorry to Bother You | Nerds of Prey | Leonardo Faierman | One of the most interesting components in Sorry To Bother You is whether the film does, or doesn't, and how it goes about testing his basic humanity. | 9/10 | 10 | 9 | 10 | false | 16 | 19 | 2 | 1,919 |
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse | Nerds of Prey | Mel Perez | The animation in this film is gorgeously brilliant, adding a whole new life to what could have been an old story. | 10/10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | false | 18 | 19 | 2 | 1,919 |
The First Purge | Nerds of Prey | Leonardo Faierman | The First Purge might not be a nuanced political commentary or an artful polemic, but as a modernized John Carpenter-inspired debacle of urban chaos? The system works. | 8/10 | 10 | 8 | 10 | false | 14 | 19 | 2 | 1,919 |
The Greatest Showman | Nerds of Prey | Shannon Miller | There's more than enough flash and bang [in The Greatest Showman] to spare, but not nearly enough of a concentrated effort to fully develop one single angle, from plot to participants. | 5/10 | 10 | 5 | 10 | false | 8 | 19 | 2 | 1,919 |
Welcome to Marwen | Nerds of Prey | Shannon Miller | ...the love that [ Welcome to Marwen ] professes for these women and how it actually treats women are at direct odds with each other. | 5/10 | 10 | 5 | 10 | false | 8 | 19 | 2 | 1,919 |
Widows | Nerds of Prey | Leonardo Faierman | The women in [Widows]have depth. They shift and transform, ... [they] aren't singularly labeled or monolithic. | 7/10 | 10 | 7 | 10 | false | 12 | 19 | 2 | 1,919 |
Homecoming: A Film by Beyoncé | Nerds of Prey | Shannon Miller | The documentary strikes a healthy balance between reflection and education.The end result is an emphatic culmination of professionalism, determination, a killer team, and months of painstaking labor. | A- | long_letter | null | null | false | 15 | 18 | 1 | 1,920 |
Kamp Katrina | New Orleans Black | Kam Williams | An eye-opening expose' welcoming white Americans to the Third World. | 4/4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | false | 3 | 4 | 1 | 1,921 |
Before Sunset | New Times | Gregory Weinkauf | We get completely self-absorbed discussions from a couple of frickin' actors. | 6/10 | 10 | 6 | 10 | false | 5 | 10 | 1 | 1,922 |
Dixie Chicks - Shut Up and Sing | New Times | Luke Y. Thompson | Look, to be honest, I could watch 93 minutes of Natalie Maines doing housework. That she has fantastic vocal chops is a major bonus, and her disdain for Bush is merely icing atop a significantly layered cake. | A- | long_letter | null | null | false | 15 | 18 | 1 | 1,923 |
A Perfect Murder | New York Magazine/Vulture | David Denby | His [Davis] direction is swift and very effective, and the movie, shot in shades of ebony (the color of black marble), looks exceptionally handsome. | 4/5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | false | 3 | 5 | 1 | 1,924 |
Wild Things | New York Magazine/Vulture | David Denby | It is my dreary duty to report that Wild Things ... lacks fantasy and flamboyance, that it lacks, precisely, wild things, and that most of it is just flat. | 2/5 | 5 | 2 | 5 | false | 1 | 5 | 1 | 1,924 |
Solo: A Star Wars Story | New York Magazine/Vulture | Will Leitch | You can feel the two versions of Solo: A Star Wars Story tugging at each other throughout. | B- | long_letter | null | null | false | 12 | 18 | 1 | 1,925 |
After Tiller | New York Post | Sara Stewart | "After Tiller" is groundbreaking in giving voice not only to the doctors, but to those who always seem to get overlooked in the high-volume political debate about this topic: the women themselves. | 3/5 | 5 | 3 | 5 | false | 4 | 9 | 2 | 1,926 |
And While We Were Here | New York Post | Lou Lumenick | [A] familiarly snoozy romantic drama. | 2/5 | 5 | 2 | 5 | false | 2 | 9 | 2 | 1,926 |
Cats | New York Post | Johnny Oleksinski | Director Tom Hooper's movie is a huge failure because he's completely abandoned the fundamentals of what made "Cats" a terrific show. | 1/5 | 5 | 1 | 5 | false | 0 | 9 | 2 | 1,926 |
Enough Said | New York Post | Lou Lumenick | [Louis-Dreyfus] has wonderful chemistry with Gandolfini, whose Albert is warmly sympathetic, ruefully amusing, and ultimately hurt ... | 3/5 | 5 | 3 | 5 | false | 4 | 9 | 2 | 1,926 |
Good Ol' Freda | New York Post | Sara Stewart | The sweet-faced Kelly is a lovely and humble storyteller, and her enduring affection for John, Paul, George and "Richie" is palpable. | 3/5 | 5 | 3 | 5 | false | 4 | 9 | 2 | 1,926 |
Insidious: Chapter 2 | New York Post | Sara Stewart | This is one of the more pointless follow-ups ever, just an assortment of scary-movie tropes randomly doled out, with unavoidable jolts at regular intervals. | 1/5 | 5 | 1 | 5 | false | 0 | 9 | 2 | 1,926 |
Jayne Mansfield's Car | New York Post | Lou Lumenick | Overall, the rambling "Jayne Mansfield's Car" is almost as big a wreck as its namesake. | 1.5/5 | 5 | 1.5 | 5 | false | 1 | 9 | 2 | 1,926 |
Mademoiselle C | New York Post | Sara Stewart | As a distinctly not-insider ... I would have benefited more from a broader portrait of the woman herself, and how she became such a legend. | 2/5 | 5 | 2 | 5 | false | 2 | 9 | 2 | 1,926 |
Mother Of George | New York Post | Farran Smith Nehme | Darci Picoult's script renders all of these characters, if not always sympathetically, humanly and fully. | 3/5 | 5 | 3 | 5 | false | 4 | 9 | 2 | 1,926 |
Prisoners | New York Post | Lou Lumenick | A film that seems headed toward one conclusion, then veers toward another over 2/₂ of the fastest-moving hours I've seen in a recent movie. | 3.5/5 | 5 | 3.5 | 5 | false | 5 | 9 | 2 | 1,926 |
Queen of the Lot | New York Post | Lou Lumenick | A sloppy vanity project ... rambling and toothless... | 1/5 | 5 | 1 | 5 | false | 0 | 9 | 2 | 1,926 |
Rush | New York Post | Kyle Smith | Fine filmmaking, a smart, visually engorged, frequently thrilling tale of boyish competition - inspired by a true story. At heart it's "Amadeus" on wheels, only this time Salieri is the Austrian. | 3/5 | 5 | 3 | 5 | false | 4 | 9 | 2 | 1,926 |
Thanks For Sharing | New York Post | Kyle Smith | This comedy is cringe-inducingly lame and the dramatic turns are visible as far in advance as utility poles on the prairie. | 1/5 | 5 | 1 | 5 | false | 0 | 9 | 2 | 1,926 |
The Colony | New York Post | Kyle Smith | A screaming, lunging, chomping chase movie that has nothing new to bring to a genre that just won't die. | 1.5/5 | 5 | 1.5 | 5 | false | 1 | 9 | 2 | 1,926 |
The Family | New York Post | Kyle Smith | Remember when Robert De Niro was an interesting actor? These days his talent, like his character in "The Family," is in the witness protection program, never to be seen again. | 1/5 | 5 | 1 | 5 | false | 0 | 9 | 2 | 1,926 |
Wadjda | New York Post | Farran Smith Nehme | What makes the movie so delightful is that Wadjda isn't trying to make trouble; she's just being herself. | 3.5/5 | 5 | 3.5 | 5 | false | 5 | 9 | 2 | 1,926 |
How to Survive a Plague | New York Press | Jennifer Merin | What making a difference is really all about! | 5/5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | false | 4 | 5 | 1 | 1,927 |
Pink Ribbons, Inc. | New York Press | Jennifer Merin | An alarming look at the profitable industry that has grown up around nonprofit fund raising for breast cancer research. Must see! | 5/5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | false | 4 | 5 | 1 | 1,927 |
The To Do List | New York Press | Eric Kohn | Carey's celebratory approach to bawdy one-liners marries form with content. | A- | long_letter | null | null | false | 15 | 18 | 1 | 1,928 |
The Caller | New York Theatre Wire | Brandon Judell | Very few actors have the ability to make a silk purse out of a sow's ear and almost have you completely forget you're interacting with pork product. Frank Langella is one of these. | 6/10 | 10 | 6 | 10 | false | 5 | 10 | 1 | 1,929 |
Transamerica | New York Theatre Wire | Brandon Judell | Transamerica: What's your daddy's bra size? | 8/10 | 10 | 8 | 10 | false | 7 | 10 | 1 | 1,929 |
Mysterious Skin | New York Theatre Wire | Brandon Judell | Araki takes on child abuse and a few other institutions with a sledgehammer. The image of a "shattered kaleidoscope" is mentioned. The perfect representation for this America. | A | short_letter | null | null | false | 5 | 6 | 1 | 1,930 |
Love Wedding Repeat | New York Times | Amy Nicholson | The action-packed script could be a passable British farce. Alas, the director and screenwriter Dean Craig instead favors British chagrin + an overdose of noblesse disdain | C | short_letter | null | null | false | 3 | 6 | 1 | 1,931 |
The Occupant (Hogar) | New York Times | Amy Nicholson | The film waves off character development and merely side-eyes its frustrations with capitalism in its rush to convince us that this dullard is in fact a supervillain | C | short_letter | null | null | false | 3 | 6 | 1 | 1,931 |
The Wrong Missy | New York Times | Amy Nicholson | Lapkus embarrasses herself with confidence. Her full-throttle verve transcends the script like a water skier leaping over a Great White. | D | short_letter | null | null | false | 2 | 6 | 1 | 1,931 |
Red Joan | New Zealand Herald | Francesca Rudkin | A story that could have been thrilling but is instead a nice, repetitive and slightly dull period costume drama. Thank goodness for Dame Judi Dench. | 2.5/4 | 4 | 2.5 | 4 | false | 3 | 7 | 2 | 1,932 |
Good Ol' Freda | Newark Star-Ledger | Stephen Whitty | For any hard-core Beatles fan, this is essential stuff - and for anyone who follows pop culture, it's rather bittersweet. | 3/5 | 5 | 3 | 5 | false | 4 | 9 | 2 | 1,933 |
Parker | Newark Star-Ledger | Stephen Whitty | In a world of pumped up, hyped-up action stars, Statham is one of the few who looks like a genuine man of action. Like Parker, he gets the job done. And then he moves on. | 3/5 | 5 | 3 | 5 | false | 4 | 9 | 2 | 1,933 |
Pirates of the Caribbean: At Worlds End | Newark Star-Ledger | Lisa Rose | Even longer and less coherent [than Dead Man's Chest]. Consider it a companion piece to the similarly indulgent Spider-Man 3. | 1.5/5 | 5 | 1.5 | 5 | false | 1 | 9 | 2 | 1,933 |
Prisoners | Newark Star-Ledger | Stephen Whitty | Is it the best Hollywood mystery we've seen in awhile? Oh yes. Is it one any parent would want to see? Only if they don't mind nightmares. | 3.5/5 | 5 | 3.5 | 5 | false | 5 | 9 | 2 | 1,933 |
Remember | Newark Star-Ledger | Stephen Whitty | You'll never forget "Remember." | 4/5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | false | 6 | 9 | 2 | 1,933 |
Roman J. Israel, Esq. | Newark Star-Ledger | Stephen Whitty | The story's unclear and the characters seem to contradict themselves. | 3/5 | 5 | 3 | 5 | false | 4 | 9 | 2 | 1,933 |
Seven Psychopaths | Newark Star-Ledger | Stephen Whitty | McDonagh sets real (and very different) moods for his stories-within-stories. The Los Angeles locations - apart from the obligatory Hollywood sign - seem fresh. | 3.5/5 | 5 | 3.5 | 5 | false | 5 | 9 | 2 | 1,933 |
Smashed | Newark Star-Ledger | Stephen Whitty | Winstead has an alert charm and curious eyes and, 30 years ago, might have been one of that decade's glorious gang of Smart Brunettes - Karen Allen, Debra Winger, Brooke Adams. | 3/5 | 5 | 3 | 5 | false | 4 | 9 | 2 | 1,933 |
The Big Picture | Newark Star-Ledger | Stephen Whitty | A dark little fable, the story of two separate roads that briefly intersect - and what happens when a man suddenly jumps from one mapped journey to the other. | 3/5 | 5 | 3 | 5 | false | 4 | 9 | 2 | 1,933 |
Wadjda | Newark Star-Ledger | Stephen Whitty | Cleanly shot, concisely edited, "Wadjda" is a film that parents and smart children could enjoy together; its heroine is both immediately a type (yes, they roll their eyes in Saudi Arabia, too) and a very specific character. | 4/5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | false | 6 | 9 | 2 | 1,933 |
Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief | Newark Star-Ledger | Vicki Hyman | Even if you are familiar with the contours of the controversy over Scientology, Gibney's documentary... is worth watching, particularly for the personal stories of former members. | A- | long_letter | null | null | false | 15 | 18 | 1 | 1,934 |
Grudge Match | Newark Star-Ledger | Stephen Whitty | Although he has no debts to us, perhaps it's time De Niro really considered if he doesn't owe himself a little more. | D | long_letter | null | null | false | 7 | 18 | 1 | 1,934 |
Dragnet | Newhouse News Service | Richard Freedman | This is the only review of it you'll read that resists the temptation to open by quoting the naggingly insistent Dragnet motif of "Dum-de-dum-dum." There's just nothing dumb about this agreeably lightweight spoof. | 3/4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | true | 6 | 9 | 2 | 1,935 |
Fatal Attraction | Newhouse News Service | Richard Freedman | Until it goes berserk in the last reel or so, Fatal Attraction is an absorbing drama of civilized adultery that gets less civilized as it goes on to its inevitable conclusion. | 2.5/4 | 4 | 2.5 | 4 | true | 5 | 9 | 2 | 1,935 |
Frantic | Newhouse News Service | Richard Freedman | There are so many good things in Frantic that one feels irritated the movie as a whole isn't better than it is. It's certainly miles better than Polanski's most recent effort, the disastrous Pirates, but not as good as it should be. | 2.5/4 | 4 | 2.5 | 4 | true | 5 | 9 | 2 | 1,935 |
No Way Out | Newhouse News Service | Richard Freedman | The summer's best movie is No Way Out, a complex, rip-roaring suspense tale with a difference: It's about believable people caught in a real jam. | 4/4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | true | 8 | 9 | 2 | 1,935 |
The Squeeze | Newhouse News Service | Richard Freedman | The Squeeze is the kind of insufferably dull and derivative self-styled "comedy caper" doomed to play for about a week in movie theaters and then be instantly relegated to in-flight limbo. | 1/4 | 4 | 1 | 4 | true | 2 | 9 | 2 | 1,935 |
Stakeout | Newhouse News Service | Richard Freedman | The liveliest buddy movie -- police style -- in years. | 3/4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | true | 6 | 9 | 2 | 1,935 |
Suspect | Newhouse News Service | Richard Freedman | Suspect is a thoroughly enjoyable example of an overworked genre. | 3/4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | true | 6 | 9 | 2 | 1,935 |
A Prayer for the Dying | Newhouse News Service | Richard Freedman | It is almost inexplicable how dull and sodden a melodrama A Prayer for the Dying -- about an IRA terrorist in London -- manages to be. | 1/4 | 4 | 1 | 4 | true | 2 | 9 | 2 | 1,935 |
Action Jackson | Newhouse News Service | Richard Freedman | [ Weathers] shows here what one had long suspected from his Rocky debut: an attractive personality with more than enough charisma to fill the screen in a worthier film than this. | 2/4 | 4 | 2 | 4 | true | 4 | 9 | 2 | 1,935 |
Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold | Newhouse News Service | Richard Freedman | A camped up ripoff of the Raiders of The Lost Ark and Romancing The Stone movies. | 0/4 | 4 | 0 | 4 | true | 0 | 9 | 2 | 1,935 |
Barfly | Newhouse News Service | Richard Freedman | [What's] exciting about this raucously funny, offbeat salute to booze as a lifetime vocation is Mickey Rourke as its central soak Henry, a part closely modeled on poet-novelist Charles Bukowski. | 3/4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | true | 6 | 9 | 2 | 1,935 |
Benji the Hunted | Newhouse News Service | Richard Freedman | It's perfect for snoozing to if Benji's soundless adventures begin to pall, as they may for post-nine-year-olds. | 2.5/4 | 4 | 2.5 | 4 | true | 5 | 9 | 2 | 1,935 |
The Big Easy | Newhouse News Service | Richard Freedman | There is nothing easy about its own attitude, which is moral without being censorious.... with actors as engaging as Barkin and Quaid to say nothing of the ever-reliable Beatty the process is a delight to watch. | 3/4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | true | 6 | 9 | 2 | 1,935 |
Broadcast News | Newhouse News Service | Richard Freedman | It's an intelligent, uproariously funny dissection of what really goes on in a TV newsroom, both on and off camera. | 4/4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | true | 8 | 9 | 2 | 1,935 |
Creepshow 2 | Newhouse News Service | Richard Freedman | One of the many repulsive things about the film is the simple-minded moralizing that blights all three tales. | 0/4 | 4 | 0 | 4 | true | 0 | 9 | 2 | 1,935 |
Deadly Friend | Newhouse News Service | Richard Freedman | The sad news, though, about this essentially silly and derivative horror film is that it's by Wes Craven, the master of the genre who gave us Last House on the Left and A Nightmare on Elm Street. | 1/4 | 4 | 1 | 4 | true | 2 | 9 | 2 | 1,935 |
Evil Dead 2: Dead by Dawn | Newhouse News Service | Richard Freedman | The problem is that with no characters to care about, the decapitated heads, the eyeballs caroming out of someone's skull to land in someone else's mouth, the buzzing chainsaws and the incessant screaming don't really add up to very much. | 0/4 | 4 | 0 | 4 | true | 0 | 9 | 2 | 1,935 |
Extreme Prejudice | Newhouse News Service | Richard Freedman | Beneath its trendy veneer of covert operations, Extreme Prejudice is a whale of an old-fashioned Western. | 3/4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | true | 6 | 9 | 2 | 1,935 |
First Blood | Newhouse News Service | Richard Freedman | Considerably "less thoughtful than, say, Coming Home on a similar subject, First Blood so revels In sadism that Its high-minded pretenses are quickly washed away in blood -- first, last and always. | 2/4 | 4 | 2 | 4 | true | 4 | 9 | 2 | 1,935 |
The Last Emperor | Newhouse News Service | Richard Freedman | As a resplendently gorgeous historical pageant of China in the 20th century, The Last Emperor is, visually at least, the most beautiful movie in years. But as an involving human drama about Pu Yi... it doggedly refuses to come to much dramatic life. | 3.5/4 | 4 | 3.5 | 4 | true | 7 | 9 | 2 | 1,935 |
Listen Up Philip | Newhouse News Service | Stephen Whitty | The movie works on a couple of levels at once, being not only a Rothian story, but a kind of story about Roth - or any writer who's sometimes found it easier to focus on pages than people. | 3/4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | true | 6 | 9 | 2 | 1,935 |
Outrageous Fortune | Newhouse News Service | Richard Freedman | Lavishly funny and entertaining. | 3/4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | true | 6 | 9 | 2 | 1,935 |
Overboard | Newhouse News Service | Richard Freedman | The whole film comes off as an unfunny, nightmarish anti-feminist version of The Taming of the Shrew. | 1/4 | 4 | 1 | 4 | true | 2 | 9 | 2 | 1,935 |
The Preacher's Wife | Newhouse News Service | Dana Harris | While the movie has heartwarming stamped all over it, the plot stacks the deck against this light comedy with a dark undercurrent of marital insecurity, failure of leadership and testing one's faith. | 2/4 | 4 | 2 | 4 | true | 4 | 9 | 2 | 1,935 |
Romance & Cigarettes | Newhouse News Service | Stephen Whitty | Was it mass hysteria? Were they all hypnotized? Did they lose some dreadful bet? | 0/4 | 4 | 0 | 4 | true | 0 | 9 | 2 | 1,935 |
Roxanne | Newhouse News Service | Richard Freedman | Martin is very funny in the role, and most ingenious about finding modern equivalents for the various bits of business in the original play. Yet the nagging question remains: Why? | 2.5/4 | 4 | 2.5 | 4 | true | 5 | 9 | 2 | 1,935 |
Someone to Watch over Me | Newhouse News Service | Richard Freedman | Much of its failure to convince emotionally as well as intellectually must be laid at the door of its director, Ridley Scott, who seems far happier making super-high-tech thrillers like Alien and Blade Runner. | 2/4 | 4 | 2 | 4 | true | 4 | 9 | 2 | 1,935 |
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace | Newhouse News Service | Richard Freedman | In his fourth and feeblest movie appearance in just under a decade, the man of steel in blue underwear becomes a peacenik. | 1/4 | 4 | 1 | 4 | true | 2 | 9 | 2 | 1,935 |
Throw Momma from the Train | Newhouse News Service | Richard Freedman | Throw Momma from the Train is a comic triumph for all involved. | 3.5/4 | 4 | 3.5 | 4 | true | 7 | 9 | 2 | 1,935 |
The Untouchables | Newhouse News Service | Richard Freedman | It's a beautifully controlled film, as well as an intensely exciting and enjoyable one. Although De Niro and Connery easily walk away with the acting honors, the less flamboyant performance of Costner is perhaps the most admirable in the film. | 4/4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | true | 8 | 9 | 2 | 1,935 |
The Witches of Eastwick | Newhouse News Service | Richard Freedman | This is a remarkably faithful rendition on film of a most diverting novel showing that, in the right hands, movies can achieve all the delights of literate entertainment. | 4/4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | true | 8 | 9 | 2 | 1,935 |
A Most Wanted Man | News & Observer (Raleigh, NC) | Lewis Beale | Intelligent filmmaking is rare enough these days, and intelligent films taking an ethically probing approach to the war on terror even rarer. | A | long_letter | null | null | false | 16 | 18 | 1 | 1,936 |
Atlas Shrugged: Part I | News & Observer (Raleigh, NC) | Lewis Beale | Although it's not as bad as its trailer might suggest, this first part of a projected three-part series will probably please the already converted but bore and annoy just about everyone else. | C- | long_letter | null | null | false | 9 | 18 | 1 | 1,936 |
Blackhat | News & Observer (Raleigh, NC) | Lewis Beale | Mann may not be at the top of his form here, but Blackhat is still proof that even in a flawed work, he is a master filmmaker. | B+ | long_letter | null | null | false | 14 | 18 | 1 | 1,936 |
Cake | News & Observer (Raleigh, NC) | Lewis Beale | In Cake, Aniston shows that she's got the goods, the ability to delve into a complex, not particularly likable, character and make her thoroughly believable. If only the film were as good as its star. | B- | long_letter | null | null | false | 12 | 18 | 1 | 1,936 |
Chef | News & Observer (Raleigh, NC) | Lewis Beale | Like all good foodie movies, Chef works not only because of the cooking scenes, but because it is a beautiful portrayal of the passion and love the best chefs have while cooking food for other people. | B+ | long_letter | null | null | false | 14 | 18 | 1 | 1,936 |
A Royal Affair | News & Observer (Raleigh, NC) | Lewis Beale | The volatile mix of sex and politics is at the core of the sumptuously produced Danish film A Royal Affair, which, by underplaying its combustible material, fails to do full justice to it. | B | long_letter | null | null | false | 13 | 18 | 1 | 1,936 |
Fading Gigolo | News & Observer (Raleigh, NC) | Lewis Beale | Despite the charm of the actors in this film, and Allen's frenetic, mostly unfunny attempts at comedy, there's not a single moment in Fading Gigolo that is believable. | C- | long_letter | null | null | false | 9 | 18 | 1 | 1,936 |
Far From the Madding Crowd | News & Observer (Raleigh, NC) | Lewis Beale | While [Far From the Madding Crowd is] beautiful to look at, [it] suffers from inconsistent direction and the miscasting of the lead female role. | B- | long_letter | null | null | false | 12 | 18 | 1 | 1,936 |
GETT: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem | News & Observer (Raleigh, NC) | Lewis Beale | An overwhelmingly intense film about an Orthodox Jewish Israeli woman trying to get a religious divorce. | A | long_letter | null | null | false | 16 | 18 | 1 | 1,936 |
Gloria | News & Observer (Raleigh, NC) | Lewis Beale | Brilliantly brought to life by actress Paulina Garca, Gloria is not afraid to put herself out there at a Santiago dance club for over-50s, where she drinks, boogies and is on the lookout for Mr. Right. | A- | long_letter | null | null | false | 15 | 18 | 1 | 1,936 |
Ida | News & Observer (Raleigh, NC) | Lewis Beale | Director Pawel Pawlikowski has taken a real historic tragedy and personalized it in the characters of Anna/Ida and Wanda. | B | long_letter | null | null | false | 13 | 18 | 1 | 1,936 |
Life Itself | News & Observer (Raleigh, NC) | Lewis Beale | Life Itself makes a good case for a larger-than-life human who left us all a little richer for his presence. | B+ | long_letter | null | null | false | 14 | 18 | 1 | 1,936 |
Maps to the Stars | News & Observer (Raleigh, NC) | Lewis Beale | David Cronenberg has fashioned a distinguished career making films about death, disease, sexual perversity and violence. But it's doubtful he's ever directed anything as scabrous and self-loathing as Maps to the Stars. | B | long_letter | null | null | false | 13 | 18 | 1 | 1,936 |
McFarland USA | News & Observer (Raleigh, NC) | Lewis Beale | Uplift doesn't come much better than this. | B+ | long_letter | null | null | false | 14 | 18 | 1 | 1,936 |
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