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Sunday, August 29, 2021

An eerie dreamlike quality makes Candyman a largely satisfying horror sequel

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To quote Staind, "it's been a while" since Candyman last graced movie theater screens. After debuting in 1992 with the origina...
Monday, August 23, 2021

Mike Leigh is in superb form with his 1999 film Topsy Turvy

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Mike Leigh movies, much like the works of Yasujiro Ozu or Jim Jarmusch, have an incredibly insightful yet casual quality in their observatio...
Thursday, August 19, 2021

Don't celebrate Sean Penn's Flag Day

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  I’m not sure what director Sean Penn wanted to accomplish with Flag Day , but I sure know what movies he wanted to emulate. Flag Day has t...

Free Guy is a harmless but frustratingly unambitious video game romp

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The pandemic may have permanently upended the movie business, but leave it to Free Guy to show that there are still some reliable elements o...
Wednesday, August 18, 2021

In Laman's Terms: How Nine Days became an accidental, but poignant, tale about living through the COVID-19 pandemic

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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 la...
Sunday, August 15, 2021

The Insider is about a normal soul facing abnormal corruption

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  The end of Terrence Malick's 2019 classic A Hidden Life features on-screen text reciting a George Eliot quote about how "the gro...
Saturday, August 14, 2021

Life before life gets poignantly rendered in Nine Days

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  Will (Winston Duke) exists before existence. He's a figure in charge of determining which unborn souls get to go and have a life on Ea...

The complexities of grief make for a great emotional bedrock for Three Colours: Blue

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  Not everyone deals with tragedy the same way. Perhaps your first response is to sob uncontrollably. Maybe another's is to just stare b...
Tuesday, August 10, 2021

What If…? is a poorly animated mixed bag with flashes of intriguing potential

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  Kicking off in February 1977, What If has been a recurring comic book series for Marvel Comics that explores alternate scenarios of well-...
Saturday, August 7, 2021

Vivo will work just fine as toe-tapping cinema for youngsters

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  Remember four years ago when Sony Pictures Animation unleashed The Emoji Movie on the unsuspecting public? That felt like a nadir moment f...
Friday, August 6, 2021

James Gunn delivers a delightfully gruesome yet heartfelt blockbuster with The Suicide Squad

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  There were a lot of things I expected from The Suicide Squad , but I never thought it would be spliced up into titled segments like a Wes...
Thursday, August 5, 2021

The flawed but interesting Annette has ambition to spare (SPOILERS)

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PLOT SPOILERS AHEAD Annette begins by letting you know exactly what kind of movie it is. Ron Mael and Russell Mael of the band Sparks begin ...
Wednesday, August 4, 2021

David Lowery delivers stunning visuals and melancholy contemplation with The Green Knight

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If you've seen a medieval fantasy film in the last decade, you know what exactly you're getting into. Projects like Game of Thrones ...

In Laman's Terms: A look back at the August 2011 box office

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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 la...
Tuesday, August 3, 2021

A look at the domestic box office of July 2021

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It appears that the domestic box office amassed $582.1 million in July 2021 .  That's a tremendous 45% increase from the haul of June 20...
Sunday, August 1, 2021

Jungle Cruise is a way bumpier ride than it should be

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There's a sense of artificiality to the entirety of Jungle Cruise that I found impossible to look past. Jungle Cruise stars two actors t...