Review: ‘Challengers’ is pure, sexy fun
2024-04-26T13:08:51-07:00
REVIEW: ‘Dune: Part Two’ is undeniably awe-inspiring
2024-03-03T14:45:00-07:00
Review: Here’s why ‘Madame Web’ gets zero stars
2024-02-18T18:00:00-07:00
Review: ‘May December’ is a thought-provoking take on Mary Kay Letourneau story
2023-12-01T16:00:00-07:00
Review: There’s an emptiness to ‘Priscilla’ that needs real character
2023-11-05T15:20:00-07:00
Review: ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ is the work of a master
2023-10-23T14:35:00-07:00
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Review: ‘Challengers’ is pure, sexy fun - Read Article Review: ‘Challengers’ is pure, sexy fun
2024-04-26T13:08:51-07:00Challengers, an erotic sports drama from Call Me by Your Name’s Luca Guadagnino, feels like a movie reverse-engineered from tennis grunts sounding like sex noises. Tennis is sex, the film…
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REVIEW: ‘Dune: Part Two’ is undeniably awe-inspiring - Read Article REVIEW: ‘Dune: Part Two’ is undeniably awe-inspiring
2024-03-03T14:45:00-07:00Dune: Part Two begins just like Part One: alien throat singing piercing the darkness before the studio logos appear. It surprised me the first time, and it also did the…
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Review: Here’s why ‘Madame Web’ gets zero stars - Read Article Review: Here’s why ‘Madame Web’ gets zero stars
2024-02-18T18:00:00-07:00Madame Web could never have gotten off on the right foot. It’s coming amid a superhero bust, for one—the MCU has overworked itself into a soulless content mill, DC is…
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Review: ‘May December’ is a thought-provoking take on Mary Kay Letourneau story - Read Article Review: ‘May December’ is a thought-provoking take on Mary Kay Letourneau story
2023-12-01T16:00:00-07:00May December is not an easy film to parse. There’s the backstory, based on a true story, of a teacher who “fell in love with” (heavy on the quotation marks)…
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Review: There’s an emptiness to ‘Priscilla’ that needs real character - Read Article Review: There’s an emptiness to ‘Priscilla’ that needs real character
2023-11-05T15:20:00-07:00Priscilla Presley is precisely the kind of person you’d expect to write a memoir—marry one of music’s most public public figures and your life is narrativized, sensationalized, co-opted by the…
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Review: ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ is the work of a master - Read Article Review: ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ is the work of a master
2023-10-23T14:35:00-07:00The first of many to die in Killers of the Flower Moon is seen dying from above. He’s an Osage Native American, poisoned, writhing on the floor and foaming at…
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Review: ‘The Creator’ thuds from its rare heights - Read Article Review: ‘The Creator’ thuds from its rare heights
2023-09-30T16:15:00-07:00The most interesting thing about stories about AI (not stories by AI, which are much less interesting) is the mirror they hold up to human existence. If consciousness can arise…
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Review: ‘A Haunting in Venice’ feels like more of the same - Read Article Review: ‘A Haunting in Venice’ feels like more of the same
2023-09-17T17:30:00-07:00A Haunting in Venice opens not just in Venice but in the Venice of someone’s nightmare, in St. Mark’s Square, looking like it does in my dreams (empty for once).…
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Alex Winter from ‘The YouTube Effect’ talks about life as a documentarian - Read Article Alex Winter from ‘The YouTube Effect’ talks about life as a documentarian
2023-08-13T20:00:00-07:00Alex Winter, who Arizonans may know as Bill S. Preston, Esq. from the locally filmed Bill & Ted, has spent the last decade-plus as an accomplished documentarian, covering subjects from…
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Review: ‘Barbie’ script and wit are as sharp as they are silly - Read Article Review: ‘Barbie’ script and wit are as sharp as they are silly
2023-07-22T14:05:07-07:00In case you haven’t heard, the writers’ and actors’ guilds of America are currently on strike together for the first time since 1960 because film studios are treating them like—and…
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Review: Wes Anderson is in fine form with ‘Asteroid City’ - Read Article Review: Wes Anderson is in fine form with ‘Asteroid City’
2023-06-23T13:05:29-07:00As Wes Anderson hones the rhythms and compositions of his impeccably detailed scenes (which, despite all the TikToks doing Anderson impressions, amount to more than posing symmetrically and adjusting crooked…
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Review: Pixar’s ‘Elemental’ achieves something lasting - Read Article Review: Pixar’s ‘Elemental’ achieves something lasting
2023-06-18T18:20:00-07:00A forbidden love between fire and water may not be the most creative concept, but at no point does Elemental make a “steamy romance” pun, so these writers are working…
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