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‘Madness in the middle’

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If you’ve seen a hundred Westerns, then you’ve seen it a hundred times: a mysterious figure rides into town looking for someone. With guns...

‘The Crazies’ has some scares, but not enough

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The two stupidest words in the history of horror movies...

Silly sullen Sully

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Sully combines the thrill of events you already know work out okay with the pulse-pounding excitement of multiple computer simulations of airplanes landing. Complete...

Streaming cat blues

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The bad news: the novel coronavirus has disrupted life as we know it, and will for the next couple months. But, you’ve gone to the store,...

What happens when a son sets out to profile his father?

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The documentary film Old Man is as much a story of a troubled, perhaps marginally dysfunctional family as it is the story of a troubled record store — and, in many ways, a dysfunctional town. The portrait of Boulder is not graceful. It’s a critique of the town’s ...

‘New Moon’ a tick better than first ‘Twilight’

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The Twilight Saga: New Moon, also known as "Twilight: The Squeakquel," is actually pretty good — a tick better than the...

Bloody interesting

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Early on in the derivative but fairly absorbing blur titled Safe House, set in Cape Town, South Africa, Denzel Washington’s Tobin Frost, a spy in from the cold, is brought to a Central Intelligence Agency safe house so that he can be asked a few questions about the ...

X marks the spotty

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Like a car mechanic tasked with repairing a UFO or a political pundit faced with explaining Donald Trump’s cabinet appointments, critically appraising the third...

‘Skin’ doesn’t go deep enough

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An improbable true story of bloodlines and color lines...

‘Once,’ again


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In the name of Parker Posey, Natalie Portman and all other patron saints of Manic Pixie Dream Girls (MPDG): Could you just... not, anymore?...

‘Suicide Squad’ is messy… but fun


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Raise a glass: The magic of movie making is dead. We don’t just know, “how the sausage is made.” No, no, no. Now we press...

A wee whee, mon ami

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Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets has the exact problems you would anticipate an adaptation of a 50-year-old French sci-fi comic book...