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Moira MacDonald

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Song Sung Blue (2025) 78% 2/4 EDIT “A missed opportunity, just like this movie.” – Seattle Times Dec 24, 2025 Full Review Anaconda (2025) 49% 2.5/4 EDIT “It’s all very, very silly, but nobody here thought they were making a Scorsese movie, and the fun’s infectious. ” – Seattle Times Dec 23, 2025 Full Review Ella McCay (2025) 23% 2.5/4 EDIT “It’s not at all unpleasant spending two hours with Ella and her family and colleagues, but it leaves you feeling a little nostalgic for what it could have been. ” – Seattle Times Dec 10, 2025 Full Review Fackham Hall (2025) 74% 2.5/4 EDIT “Fackham Hall is a pleasantly silly diversion for “Downton Abbey” fans with a tolerance for raunchy sight gags and bad puns.” – Seattle Times Dec 5, 2025 Full Review Hamnet (2025) 86% 4/4 EDIT “Buckley and Mescal, both looking achingly young, beautifully convey the gasping, swimmy passion of first love, and the frustrations when happily-ever-after doesn’t quite work out that way. ” – Seattle Times Dec 1, 2025 Full Review Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (2025) 92% 3/4 EDIT “Wake Up Dead Man is less funny and more meditative than its predecessors.” – Seattle Times Nov 26, 2025 Full Review Jay Kelly (2025) 75% 3/4 EDIT “It's a reminder that the biggest source of magic in movies is a performer who can, suddenly and without warning, show us the human heart.” – Seattle Times Nov 18, 2025 Full Review Now You See Me: Now You Don't (2025) 60% 2.5/4 EDIT “Ultimately, “Now You See Me: Now You Don’t” is never quite as much fun as you expect it to be, particularly when Pike isn’t on screen. Despite a character intoning that we all “need magic more than ever,” this movie didn’t have enough of it.” – Seattle Times Nov 11, 2025 Full Review Bugonia (2025) 88% 3/5 EDIT “The final moments of “Bugonia” paint as grim a picture of humanity as you’ll see anywhere; it’s superbly crafted, to be sure, but it’s ice-cold at its core.” – Seattle Times Oct 30, 2025 Full Review Hedda (2025) 89% 3.5/5 EDIT “Hedda is gorgeous eye candy; that house, with its peacock wallpaper and perfect amber light, is a dream, and Thompson in Hedda’s perfectly fitted green party dress (she wears it through most of the film, like armor) looks like its loveliest work of art.” – Seattle Times Oct 29, 2025 Full Review Blue Moon (2025) 90% 3/4 EDIT “Linklater really nails the atmosphere here; watching “Blue Moon” feels like sitting with smart people in a retro bar, covered in a gentle blanket of cocktail piano.” – Seattle Times Oct 24, 2025 Full Review Frankenstein (2025) 85% 4/4 EDIT “This “Frankenstein” has no shortage of horrors, but it also finds notes of forgiveness and kindness; it’s a monster movie with a soul.” – Seattle Times Oct 24, 2025 Full Review After the Hunt (2025) 37% 2.5/4 EDIT “After the Hunt is full of interesting performances and potentially fraught drama, but ultimately it feels like a failed effort, an attempt to catch a zeitgeist moment as it flies by.” – Seattle Times Oct 15, 2025 Full Review Kiss of the Spider Woman (2025) 77% 3.5/5 EDIT “Condon doesn’t shy away from the violence and tragedy at the heart of this story, but he lets us see the tender, hard-forged connection between Molina and Valentín, and also lets us disappear into a world of tinselly Hollywood beauty, just as they do.” – Seattle Times Oct 9, 2025 Full Review Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale (2025) 91% 3/4 EDIT “Fellowes, who touchingly dedicates the film “in loving memory of Dame Maggie Smith,” treats us to a nicely sentimental final sequence that reminds us of all of Downton’s beautiful ghosts, and certainly feels like a goodbye.” – Seattle Times Sep 11, 2025 Full Review Jurassic World Rebirth (2025) 50% 3/4 EDIT “The effects are uniformly effective — we believe these dinosaurs, even as we don’t believe that any humans could be quite this clueless — and it all goes down perfectly nicely with popcorn, which is all you can ask of a “Jurassic” movie. ” – Seattle Times Jul 2, 2025 Full Review F1 The Movie (2025) 82% 3/4 EDIT “This movie is entirely about the driving, and the speed.” – Seattle Times Jun 25, 2025 Full Review Materialists (2025) 77% 2.5/4 EDIT “Though “Materialists” nods at a few rom-com conventions, it’s ultimately a gentle exploration of what we think we want from love, and how those things can change when the right person arrives.” – Seattle Times Jun 13, 2025 Full Review The Phoenician Scheme (2025) 77% 2/4 EDIT “It's not terrible, but it's an elegantly filmed stumble.” – Seattle Times Jun 9, 2025 Full Review Jane Austen Wrecked My Life (2024) 82% 3/4 EDIT ““Jane Austen Wrecked My Life” is a gentle treat, sure to leave any book-loving viewer happy.” – Seattle Times May 28, 2025 Full Review Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning (2025) 80% 3/4 EDIT “A competent, smart, expensive and sometimes thrilling action movie.” – Seattle Times May 15, 2025 Full Review Another Simple Favor (2025) 58% 2/4 EDIT “The plot’s a mess, the run time is overlong and ultimately the movie feels like a slew of good actors trapped in a gorgeous place, wearing beautiful clothes and gazing at the impossibly blue water.” – Seattle Times May 1, 2025 Full Review On Swift Horses (2024) 53% 3/4 EDIT “Nobody in this movie would be out of place in a glamorous old-Hollywood drama, which is kind of what “On Swift Horses” is trying to be — and, most of the time, coming pretty close.” – Seattle Times Apr 23, 2025 Full Review The Wedding Banquet (2025) 86% 3.5/4 EDIT ““The Wedding Banquet” is a worthy successor to Ang Lee’s classic, and a chance for a group of actors to shine together and separately. ” – Seattle Times Apr 17, 2025 Full Review Drop (2025) 83% 3/4 EDIT ““Drop” gets the job done, and even throws in an excellent cocktail-piano rendition of “Baby Shark.”” – Seattle Times Apr 10, 2025 Full Review
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