Review: Dragon Inn
While King Hu’s 1971 epic A Touch of Zen is his towering masterpiece, his earlier film Dragon Inn may be the best entry point into ...
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Review: The Jungle Book
At this point in my jaded film critic life it takes a lot to actually impress me with special effects. We’ve seen Transformers ...
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Review: Weiner
Weiner is a documentary about humiliating political implosion. As the candidate’s political ambitions hit rock bottom, we hear a voice behind the camera ...
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Review: The Boy and the Beast
Mamoru Hosoda is behind some of my favorite animated films: Summer Wars, Wolf Children, The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, and even The ...
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Review: Under the Shadow
Some of the most notable indie horror movies of the last few years have been by women or about women. For example, see ...
Review: Deadpool
I have never read a Marvel comic. There. I said it. In fact, I’ve never read any superhero comic that isn’t about a ...
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Review: The Hateful Eight
From the outset, The Hateful Eight has been a Big Deal. Tarantino was gonna do it, but the screenplay leaked, so he wasn’t ...
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Review: Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Sixteen years ago Star Wars returned, but it wasn’t the return we were all hoping for. It was the return George Lucas wanted, ...
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Review: Creed
Twenty years ago, my father had a bout with lymphoma. In the following years of recovery, I searched for any means to get ...
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Review: The Peanuts Movie
Thanks to my mom, I’ve been following Charlie Brown and the Peanuts gang for as long as I can remember. Like Charlie, I ...
Review: Shrew’s Nest
When I was in middle school, we’d periodically have a writer, Jon Land, come and talk to us. He’d talk about writing and ...
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Review: The Final Girls
content content The Final GirlsDirector: Todd Strauss-SchulsonRated: PG-13Release Date: October 9, 2015 (in theaters/VOD) and November 3, 2015 (Home Video) content content content ...