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Sunday, May 31, 2020

A Colt is My Passport Travels To Enjoyable Action Movie Territory

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I gotta give a hearty thank you to Patton Oswalt for putting A Colt is My Passport on my radar. A 1967 yakuza-noir movie from director Ta...
Saturday, May 30, 2020

What Has Happened In The Last Two-and-a-Half Months of the Domestic Box Office?

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On March 20, 2020, movie theaters came to a stop. For the first time in history, movie theaters were suddenly abandoned and no longer sh...

The Vast of Night Takes Viewers Into An Eerie Sci-Fi Yarn

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The Vast of Night makes no bones about its creative influences. It's quite upfront about what types of entertainment it's channeli...
Friday, May 29, 2020

Les Miserables Lends an Unflinching Glimpse at Systemic Prejudice

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No prisoner 24601 to be found here. Instead, Les Miserables is a 2020 French movie hailing from director Ladj Ly, one that follows an ass...

The Banker Is a Disappointingly Rushed and Paint-By-Numbers Affair

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Ever since he was a kid, Bernard Garrett (Anthony Mackie) was all about challenging the status quo. A math genius, Garrett has long harbor...
Thursday, May 28, 2020

The Age of Innocence See's Martin Scorsese Excelling at Period-Era Romance

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One of my very favorite things about Martin Scorsese is that his love for all kinds of films is reflected in the variety of genres he'...
Wednesday, May 27, 2020

Why Wasn't Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time the Next Pirates of the Caribbean?

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In Laman's Terms is a weekly editorial column where Douglas Laman rambles on about certain topics or ideas that have been on his mind ...
Tuesday, May 26, 2020

An Overstuffed Script Leaves The Rainmaker Dry When it Comes to Engaging Characters

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The Rainmaker may sound like the name of a supervillain origin story but it's actually a film adaptation of a John Grisham courtroom n...
Sunday, May 24, 2020

It Felt Like Love Is An Appropriately Hard-to-Watch Directorial Debut for Eliza Hittman

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Lila (Gina Piersanti) really wants to be like her more experienced friend Chiara (Giovanni Salimeni). Chiara's got a steady boyfriend ...

Kiera Knightley Goes in a Different Direction For The Endearing Laggies

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In the year 2014, you could see many unique sights on the big screen. A gun-toting raccoon with the voice of Bradley Cooper made his first...
Saturday, May 23, 2020

Lynn Shelton Embraces Awkwardness and Vulnerability in the Exceptional Comedy Humpday

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For much of the history of American comedies, gay panic jokes were as standard of a source of comedy as sleeping on a banana peel. Just be...
Friday, May 22, 2020

Seberg Has a Great Kristen Stewart Performance But Little Else to Offer

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Seberg is half of a good movie. Anytime it focuses exclusively on its titular character, real-life movie star Jean Seberg (Kristen Stewart...

The Lovebirds Fails To Produce a Comedy Worthy of Its Lead Actors

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Jibran (Kumail Nanjiani) and Leilani (Issa Rae) used to have a love straight out of a romance novel. Now, they can't stand the sight o...
Thursday, May 21, 2020

Talented Filmmakers and Actors Put Up a Grand Fight in Charlie Wilson's War

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Laid bare, the political subtext of Charlie Wilson's War is not great. Now, I'm not saying the movies "offensive" or us...

Defending Your Life Provides an Imaginative and Thoughtful Rendering of the Afterlife

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You gotta begin your movie with a bang and Defending Your Life certainly starts off its story with a whopper of a development. Before the ...
Wednesday, May 20, 2020

Capone Is No Ordinary Gangster Movie, For Better and For Worse

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The best way to explain what kind of movie Capone is is by saying that if this movie had gotten a theatrical release, it would have garner...
Tuesday, May 19, 2020

In Laman's Terms: Twenty Years of Forgetting About Dinosaur

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In Laman's Terms is a weekly editorial column where Douglas Laman rambles on about certain topics or ideas that have been on his mind ...

Blazing Saddles Is A Hoot Because of Its Attention to Western Details

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It's often been repeated that you couldn't make Blazing Saddles today because of people being "too PC". To me, that regi...
Monday, May 18, 2020

The Mule Is Super Messy But Also Has More of a Personality Than Most Late-Period Clint Eastwood Fare

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For the last decade, Clint Eastwood has directed movies that have followed a rigid formula. Eastwood has been fascinated by straightforwar...

A Secret Love Provides Simple But Heartwarming Pleasures

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A Secret Love will receive one of my shortest movie reviews in a while. However, that shouldn't be taken as a comment on it being lack...