Wednesday, May 14, 2025

The action in this 'Mission' delivers

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     I enjoyed   Mission: Impossible -- Dead Reckoning  (2023) but grumbled about the movie's two-hour and 41-minute length. And that wa...
Friday, May 9, 2025

A fun look at Cheech & Chong

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   Movies rarely score a double triumph, connecting with their audience and  with the national mood at the precise moment of their release. ...
Wednesday, May 7, 2025

'Clown in a Cornfield' plays with cliches

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  Fear the clown. If you're familiar with horror movies, you know clowns are often associated with terror. (See movies such as It .)  I...
Friday, May 2, 2025

Another look at 'Bonjour Tristesse'

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  In 1958, director Otto Preminger released Bonjour Tristesse , a film starring Jean Seberg, Deborah Kerr, and David Niven. I never saw that...
Thursday, May 1, 2025

A disappointing second helping

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           During the sequel, Another Simple Favor , Anna Kendrick 's character, a stout-hearted supermom and online influencer, mention...
Wednesday, April 30, 2025

He's determined to surf

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     In  The Surfer ,  Nicolas Cage plays a character who tries to surf on a thug-ruled Australian beach. If you're expecting Beach Boy...

'Thunderbolts*' stakes out its own turf

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     An aggressively bountiful stream of Marvel movies has created a specialized kind of viewer. Loyal fans and aficionados have become astu...
Wednesday, April 23, 2025

A wan drama fails to spark

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      Set in post-Korean War America , On Swift Horses wrings much of the life out of a story about two characters trying to find their p...

A familiar tale in an exotic setting

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The Legend of Ochi struck me as a small film straining to be a much bigger one. The movie focuses on the relationship between a teenage gir...