Apparently hoping to atone for the debacle of last year’s entry into the franchise, directors Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett return and move the goings-on to the Big Apple. Turns out, it may be all that was needed. Upping the blood and gore certainly helps the film return to its […]
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Faraway
Feeling like a German update of the 2003 swooner ‘Under the Tuscan Sun’, this Croatian-set romance stars Naomi Krauss as a lonely frustrated woman who discovers she has inherited a summer house on the Adriatic. Leaving her entire world behind, she sets out for some ‘me time’, only to find […]
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Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre
The latest from director Guy Ritchie doesn’t hit on all cylinders quite like his earlier work, but there’s enough crime-caper fun to keep it entertaining, even if it trips a little too often on its own tropes and cliches. Jason Statham, Aubrey Plaza, Bugzy Malone, and Cary Elwes star as […]
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Cocaine Bear
Based (hopefully VERY loosely) on the true story of a bear who overdosed on smuggled cocaine dropped from a plane in the Tennessee wilderness in 1985, this gonzo movie is one of the more wild-n-crazy things you may see all year. Over-the-top, cartoonish violence and a whack-a-doo script by Jimmy […]
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We Have a Ghost
Writer-director Christopher Landon (‘Freaky’, ‘Happy Death Day 2U’) ventures into family-friendly territory with this fun and heartwarming story about a ghost (David Harbour) trapped in the netherworld until a family moves into his home and tries to help him on his way. It has all the feels, all the laughs, […]
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Die Hart
This action movie satire starring Kevin Hart as a version of himself was originally released as a series of eight-minute shorts on Quibi back in 2020. In the ensuing two years, it has been edited together into a full-length (well, 80-minute) film and tossed up on Prime Video. If you […]
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Sharper
In what amounts to an effective mash-up of ‘The Grifters’ and ‘The Usual Suspects’, this sneaky-good suspense drama is a slick neo-noir caper starring Julianne Moore, Justice Smith, and Sebastian Stan as a gaggle of folks who are all interconnected and may or may not be scamming each other. Directed […]
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Emily
Actress Frances O’Connor makes her screenwriting and directing debut with this loose adaptation of Emily Brontë’s later years, focusing on her (imagined) affair with a local parson. It’s a wild, romantic, and dark (almost gothic) bit of brilliant filmmaking, highlighted by the stunning performance by Emma Mackey (‘Death on the […]
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Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
The 31st film in the MCU feels very much like many that came before it—gonzo visual effects and occasional humor but overall shrug-worthiness. It’s perfectly fine, sure, and the addition of Jonatan Major’s Kang the Conqueror injects the festivities with some new blood, but there’s not much here to jump […]
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Seriously Red
What could have been a fairly charming and fun movie about a down-on-her-luck Australian woman who gets fired and embarks on a career as a Dolly Parton impersonator instead becomes an almost incoherent mish-mash of nearly every genre going—part comedy, part romance, part drama, and part musical, with a little […]
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