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‘Rustin’ Review: Colman Domingo A Force In Biopic That Gives Civil Rights Leader His Due – Telluride Film Festival
Colman Domingo blows through the title role like a force of nature in Rustin, an exhilarating biographical drama about the highly significant but not widely known civil rights leader Bayard Rustin, whose career and reputation in the 1960s were minimized, at…
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‘Saltburn’ Review: Emerald Fennell’s Latest Has An Undeniable Life Force Despite Its Split Personality – Telluride Film Festival
The haves and have-nots of Great Britain always have served as ripe subject matter for writers of every stripe, and the tradition continues in Saltburn, a vibrant if rather familiar take on the class system circa 2006. Emerald Fennell, following up on her Oscar-winning script for Promising Young Woman…
‘El Conde’ Review: Pablo Larraín’s Latest Is A Bold, Wildly Irreverent Sensational Creation – Venice Film Festival
Pablo Larraín’s string of mostly 20th century biographical dramas hits a pinnacle of audacious brilliance with El Conde (The Count), a madly inspired reinvention of events embedded in the notion that longtime Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet became a…
‘Gran Turismo’ Review: Fresh & Provocative Racing Car Drama That’s Different From The Others
Working in an oft-traversed realm, Gran Turismo director Neill Blomkamp and writers Jason Hall and Zach Baylin have delivered a racing car drama that's rather different from the others. With plenty of potent auto action, some well-defined characters and…
‘Meg 2: The Trench’ Review: Tedious Sequel Is Missing Original’s Bite And Gets Lost At Sea
After the 2018 Jason Statham-starring sci-fi action/horror extravaganza The Meg made an imposing global haul of roughly $530 million ($385 million of that from outside the U.S.), it became instantly inevitable that more giant deep-sea monsters would quickly…
‘They Cloned Tyrone’ Review: John Boyega, Teyonah Parris & Jamie Foxx In Grim But Gutsy Genre Mashup
Rather resembling a blaxploitation-based cousin of Invasion of the Body Snatchers with a deeper sense of social consciousness, They Cloned Tyrone is a predominately grim yet intriguing account of constrained, little-hope lives victimized even further by…
‘Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One’ Review: Tom Cruise & Co. Take Excitement & Suspense To New Level
They should call it Mission: Exceptional. Given that this is a series that began on television 57 years ago and over the past 27 years has delivered seven big feature films, no one would be terribly surprised if it were to begin flagging a bit. But Tom…
‘No Hard Feelings’ Review: Jennifer Lawrence Leans Into Hard-R Comedy
What starts out looking like it wants to be a gross-out comedy in the Porky's vein eventually, and more gratifyingly, heads closer to The Graduate territory in No Hard Feelings.
It seems like quite a while since we've seen an apparent sex-on-the-brain…
‘Extraction 2’ Review: Chris Hemsworth And Team Crank Up Everything In Next-Level Action Sequel
Although the title triggers thoughts of a highly unpleasant visit to the dentist, Extraction 2 more than measures up to expectations stirred by the gritty and massively lethal non-stop action of the initial entry last year. Stuntman-turned-director Sam…
‘The Machine’ Review: Bert Kreischer Leads Obnoxious But Quick-Witted & Increasingly Funny Action Romp
The Machine is loud, gross, obnoxious and overbearing. It's also disarming, quick-witted, fast moving and becomes increasingly funny as it ends up in, of all places, Russia for its payoff scenes.
Presided over, if that is the right term, by the irrepressible Bert Kreischer, the big-gutted comedian…
‘About My Father’ Review: Sebastian Maniscalco & Robert De Niro Team In Unfunny Generational Comedy
If Sebastian Maniscalco really is the most popular comic in the country at the moment, you'd never know why from his film debut in About My Father. So unfunny it's embarrassing, this is an over-the-top, under-achieving generational comedy that feels like it was written in the mid- to late-1960s and has…
‘Asteroid City’ Review: Wes Anderson’s Latest Is Quirky, Creative & Obscure – Cannes Film Festival
"You can't wake up if you don't fall asleep," people are advised more than once in Wes Anderson's madly original 11th film, Asteroid City, which is both addictively stylized and, like this clever little quote, perhaps more than a tad obscure about what it's…
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