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The Kid Who Would Be King, the English writer-director Joe Cornish’s
family-friendly take on the King Arthur legend, might be smarter that the
average live-action kids’ movie, but it’s hamstrung by a lack of visual
imagination and a generic script. It starts promisingly enough. After an
animated pro…
about 5 years ago
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Dresden, in the mid-1930s. A precocious little boy and his beautiful young aunt follow a tour through an exhibit of “degenerate” artworks, taking in the paintings of Otto Dix and Wassily Kandinsky while their tour guide blathers on about the common man, real art in the Reich, and the like. Nazism is the status quo,…
about 5 years ago
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Adam Sandler’s latest Netflix release, Murder Mystery, isn’t going to dispel the longstanding rumor that the Sandman mostly makes movies as an excuse to go on paid vacations, using his Happy Madison production shingle as a personal travel agency. Yes, the movie is set at an assortment of pricey European resort towns,…
over 4 years ago
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It’s about the impossible desire, shared by both expats and artists, to forge an identity of one’s own.
over 4 years ago
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Bertrand Bonello takes the zombie back to its Haitian roots.
about 4 years ago
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What if you could rendezvous with a younger version of your spouse?
over 3 years ago
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Jessica Swale’s debut feature is one of those sapfests that flatters our modern attitudes by introducing them to our primitive ancestors. The past is reeducated and happy endings are possible.
over 3 years ago
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While Notturno’s lack of narration or background information necessitates some
guesswork, there is never any doubt about the subject: The threat and trauma of
the Islamic State group looms over the disconnected vignettes and vast, empty
landscapes.
about 3 years ago
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The misadventures of SpongeBob and his pals and frenemies have be enough to sustain more than 200 continually rerun episodes of TV, but filling out a feature like Sponge On The Run, even though it’s barely 80 minutes without credits, takes a lot of squeezing.
almost 3 years ago
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Ralph Fiennes is a reluctant badass in this uninspired, long-delayed entry in the Kingsman franchise
about 2 years ago
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Missed opportunities abound in this indie thriller from director Randall Okita
about 2 years ago