Film Reviews
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Suzume – Sherin’s Take
From Makoto Shinkai (writer/director of Your Name), the new anime feature Suzume questions the weight of memory, how it reshapes us, and the ways it stagnates.
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Super Mario Bros.
This movie is great—for everyone—the kids are going to love the cute story, the funny jokes, and the action, and the adults are going to love everything else.
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Chevalier
Applause to director Stephen Williams and writer Stefani Robinson for a painterly historical biopic, that presents the Chevalier with the drama, romantic entanglements, and rebellious swagger of the popstar he might have been.
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Praise This
This latest Will Packer comedy, directed by Tina Gordon, gives Chloe Bailey the chance to take lead as the sassy Sam, a LA singer-songwriter who doesn’t know when to pump her brakes.
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John Wick: Chapter 4
At last, we return to the Wickiverse and, once again, our hero goes Wicksonian on all opposition.
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Creed III
With Creed III, it’s not pulling from classic boxing matches but from something he’s a huge fan of: Shonen anime.
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Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre
Alright, what we have here is that Guy Ritchie seemed to be envious of Tom Cruise and called up his main star Jason Statham and decided to do a Mission Impossible-like spy romp with a touch…
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Magic Mike’s Last Dance
Soderbergh and screenwriter Reid Carolin put together a film that at times feels like a gender-flipped Pretty Woman that becomes a film about filmmaking with a heavy dose of romantic tension and beefcake for those…
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Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
This was a movie that just had Kang on screen more than telling a good and fulfilling story and one worthy of Ant-Man and the Wasp standing on its own.
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You People
Basically: A raunchier Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner and a great rom-com about two people who never expected to fall for each other. Time to be honest: I’ve been hard on Kenya Barris and his work lately. Some…
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When You Finish Saving the World
Directed by Jesse Eisenberg Basically: A mother and son deal with difficulties relating to each other during his teenage years. While researching When You Finish Saving the World, I found that debut writer/director Jesse Eisenberg first wrote this story…
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Missing
Directed by Nicholas D. Johnson & Will Merrick Basically: A teenage girl who has a rocky relationship with her mom has to search for her when she doesn’t return from a trip. Who saw Searching a few years…
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Andor: A Bold and Gritty Evolution of the Star Wars Universe
The story of the beginnings of the Rebel Alliance through the character of Cassian Andor from Rogue One
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Movie Review: Prey
Prey is an awesome restart of the Predator franchise featuring a fantastic new heroine with a star-making performance.
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Mr. Malcolm’s List
Basically: An Austen-style Regency ‘romance novel’ in a fanciful film. It is a fact not well acknowledged, that during the George W. Bush recession, the readers of Romance novels kept the publishing industry alive. (Because they…
