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M.N. Miller
Tomatometer-approved critic
I am the senior contributor for Ready Steady Cut and a proud Las Vegas Film Critic Society member. I'm patiently waiting for the next Pearl Jam album and kill time by scratching my wife's back on Sunday afternoons while she watches endless reruns of California Dreams. I was proclaimed the smartest reviewer alive by actor Jason Isaacs, but I have chosen to ignore the obvious sarcasm. You can also check out my work at the following entertainment websites: Insession Film, Music City Drive-In, and Film Focus Online.
Movies reviews only
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The Creator (2023) |
The Creator is stunning, a beautiful piece of escapist cinema. It is a visionary epic... bold and affecting, emotional, and even profoundly spiritual. - InSession Film
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| Posted Sep 26, 2023
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Fair Play (2023) |
Fair Play is a polarizing thriller that’s truly visceral, leaving the viewer uncomfortable and demands a critical analysis without easy answers or even simple truths - Hidden Remote
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| Posted Sep 25, 2023
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Dumb Money (2023) |
Dumb Money is a giant middle finger comedy to the establishment that’s hilarious and empathetic. - Music City Drive-In
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| Posted Sep 25, 2023
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No One Will Save You (2023) |
Duffield's film is a minimalist thriller, virtually dialogue-free, brilliantly simple, and deftly poignant. - InSession Film
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| Posted Sep 25, 2023
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Chuck Chuck Baby (2023) |
Chuck Chuck Baby is not necessarily about finding love or purpose, but looking at your lot in life not too far in the future, or even wallowing about situations from past years but finding something in the present moment that makes life worth living. - InSession Film
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| Posted Sep 22, 2023
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A Million Miles Away (2023) |
A Million Miles Away is the year's best family film. - InSession Film
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| Posted Sep 19, 2023
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Kelce (2023) |
What’s disappointing is that the film’s subject is a character, a card, and a natural cut-up. However, the viewer doesn’t learn much about the man that we already know from numerous interviews or his popular podcast. - InSession Film
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| Posted Sep 15, 2023
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Love at First Sight (2023) |
Love at First Sight is exactly what you think it will be. - InSession Film
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| Posted Sep 15, 2023
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A Haunting in Venice (2023) |
A Haunting in Venice is a beautiful-looking monster in the house picture without much tension or even fascination. - InSession Film
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| Posted Sep 13, 2023
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The Good Mother (2023) |
The Good Mother is an unbalanced story of grief. - InSession Film
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| Posted Sep 09, 2023
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The Equalizer 3 (2023) |
The series’ third installment benefits from a fish-out-of-water story and the gravitas of its star, eventually making The Equalizer 3 the most entertaining entry. - InSession Film
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| Posted Sep 06, 2023
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Nandor Fodor and the Talking Mongoose (2023) |
A rather humdrum cinematic experience on multiple levels. - InSession Film
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| Posted Sep 06, 2023
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Aporia (2023) |
Aporia takes chances with its story and forces viewers to contemplate tough questions, for better or worse.
- Film Focus Online
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| Posted Aug 29, 2023
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NFL Draft: The Pick Is In (2023) |
The Roku Original documentary film NFL Draft: The Pick Is In excels when it explores those wonderful human interest moments of the players and professionals covering one of the biggest sports events in the world - Nerd Alert
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| Posted Aug 29, 2023
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Vacation Friends 2 (2023) |
Vacation Friends 2 is even worse than the original.
- Hidden Remote
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| Posted Aug 28, 2023
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Gran Turismo: Based on a True Story (2023) |
Gran Turismo is an exceptionally engineered sports biography, even if the IRL is a “glazed” storyline.
- Hidden Remote
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| Posted Aug 28, 2023
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You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah (2023) |
You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah is a sweet Sandler family affair. - InSession Film
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| Posted Aug 28, 2023
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Retribution (2023) |
The only jaw-dropping this thriller induces is yawning.
- Hidden Remote
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| Posted Aug 25, 2023
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Bottoms (2023) |
Bottoms embraces that awkward, authentic freakiness of high school self, venturing into the wild side even for the most fervently absurd—a hilarious and distinctive comedy with facetious humor for the modern, audacious teenage female. - InSession Film
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| Posted Aug 23, 2023
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Golda (2023) |
Golda is an exceptional historical drama that unfolds like a tightly wound political thriller and showcases a virtuoso performance by Helen Mirren in the titular role. - InSession Film
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| Posted Aug 23, 2023
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Jules (2023) |
Sadly, Jules is a science-fiction comedy that lacks imagination beyond its one-note joke. - InSession Film
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| Posted Aug 22, 2023
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Blue Beetle (2023) |
While Blue Beetle has plenty of heart and a fresh perspective, the villains and the heroes are a forgettable blend of standard comic book fare that’s never as interesting as the movie’s relaxed, warm, and loving scenes where this DC film lives. - InSession Film
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| Posted Aug 22, 2023
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Strays (2023) |
Strays is a loquacious Homeward Bound, and the super sweet yet seriously sour antics of these pooches are filled with filthy, gut-busting, leg-humping hilarity. - InSession Film
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| Posted Aug 18, 2023
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Destination NBA: A G League Odyssey (2023) |
Destination NBA: A G League Odyssey reinvigorates the sports documentary that has grown stale over the past decade. - Ready Steady Cut
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| Posted Aug 13, 2023
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Red, White & Royal Blue (2023) |
A funny, smart, and sassy romantic comedy. - Ready Steady Cut
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| Posted Aug 13, 2023
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Heart of Stone (2023) |
Heart of Stone is below-average spy thriller that acts as a pilot for an action franchise rather than a stand-alone film. The action is uninteresting, predictable, and highly digitized. - Ready Steady Cut
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| Posted Aug 11, 2023
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Love in Taipei (2023) |
There’s something honest, joyful, and refreshing about Arvin Chen’s Taiwanese-infused comedy Love in Taipei. Some of that comes from a script virtually free of genre cliche antagonism. - Ready Steady Cut
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| Posted Aug 09, 2023
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Mob Land (2023) |
Mob Land is a good crime film. Despite the distracting juxtaposition of Fernandez and Dorff, which sometimes lacks vitality, the film works as a small-town crime thriller. - Ready Steady Cut
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| Posted Aug 07, 2023
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Head to Head (2023) |
The Saudi Netflix movie Head to Head excels at the single thing any buddy-comedy should do well: outstanding chemistry between the leads. - Ready Steady Cut
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| Posted Aug 04, 2023
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Soulcatcher (2023) |
Soulcatcher is a bad Netflix streaming film. The leads have little to work with when it comes to Marcowicz and Kowalewicz’s script. The special effects are of poor quality. The plot is manipulative and lazy. - Ready Steady Cut
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| Posted Aug 03, 2023
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem (2023) |
A shell shock-in' good time! Led by a creative group of Turtleheads who respect and appreciate the mark that TMNT made on pop culture, the movie returns to the roots of what made the Peter Laird and Kevin Eastman characters so special in the first place. - InSession Film
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| Posted Aug 01, 2023
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Hidden Strike (2023) |
Hidden Strike may have the most grotesque use of computer-generated special effects the world has ever seen. - Ready Steady Cut
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| Posted Jul 30, 2023
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Today We'll Talk About That Day (2023) |
[Today We'll Talk About That Day] is a moving portrait of the meaning of fatherhood and how a man's job as an example to his son is never over. - Ready Steady Cut
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| Posted Jul 28, 2023
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Happiness for Beginners (2023) |
An excruciatingly dull and patronizing love child of Wild and The Big Year that is virtually free of humor and anything remotely interesting. - Ready Steady Cut
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| Posted Jul 28, 2023
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Theater Camp (2023) |
From reveling in its wacky artistic pride to the always reliably funny Jimmy Tatro continuing to do Jimmy Tatro things, the entire film practically screams critical niche hit. - InSession Film
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| Posted Jul 28, 2023
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The Murderer (2023) |
The Murderer is a dark comedy in the same vein as Peter Berg’s Very Bad Things that’s clever while simultaneously being visually ominous and evocative. - Ready Steady Cut
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| Posted Jul 27, 2023
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Stephen Curry: Underrated (2023) |
Stephen Curry: Underrated is a perfect family documentary for sports fans and anyone inspired by someone accomplishing their dreams. Just not as insightful as one could hope. - InSession Film
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| Posted Jul 27, 2023
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Zoey 102 (2023) |
Zoey 102 generates enough laughs and quirky storytelling to get past the nostalgia factor into something for everyone. - Ready Steady Cut
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| Posted Jul 24, 2023
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The Beanie Bubble (2023) |
The Beanie Bubble misses the point of its place in history entirely. Instead of focusing on the internet-driven business boom, it delivers a shallow, unfaithful tale taking advantage of consumers’ nostalgia for product-based films at the moment. - Ready Steady Cut
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| Posted Jul 24, 2023
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Oppenheimer (2023) |
Oppenheimer is the greatest biographical film ever made. - Ready Steady Cut
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| Posted Jul 20, 2023
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They Cloned Tyrone (2023) |
THEY CLONED TYRONE is a cerebral entertainment with a bold screenplay that turns the dark comic social satire on its head, and features John Boyega giving the best performance of his career. - InSession Film
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| Posted Jul 20, 2023
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The Miracle Club (2023) |
O’Sullivan and Smallhorne’s film isn’t about individual miracles but the one that brings these women back together. - InSession Film
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| Posted Jul 17, 2023
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Bird Box Barcelona (2023) |
At first, Bird Box: Barcelona had an arresting setup for a horror thriller. However, after that point, not enough time is invested in the characters to care about their outcomes, and the suspense level drops off significantly. - InSession Film
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| Posted Jul 11, 2023
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The Out-Laws (2023) |
There is virtually nothing original or even clever about the Happy Madison production, The Out-Laws. This comedy about meeting in-laws follows the genre playbook step by step to the letter, so you will know exactly what will happen before it occurs. - InSession Film
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| Posted Jul 11, 2023
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Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning, Part One (2023) |
It’s nearly an impossible mission to save the theatre experience, but Cruise has chosen to accept it for the second summer in a row. - Ready Steady Cut
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| Posted Jul 10, 2023
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The Initiated (2023) |
The Initiated (Los Iniciados) is a good crime thriller with an excellent lead performance by the film’s star, Andrés Parra. The actor plays the role brilliantly here, slowly winding up the manic behavior in his performance. - Ready Steady Cut
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| Posted Jul 09, 2023
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Past Lives (2023) |
Past Lives soars! Writer and director Celine Strong’s debut is a love story of jaw-dropping maturity. - Ready Steady Cut
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| Posted Jul 03, 2023
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Joy Ride (2023) |
Utterly delightful, laugh-out-loud, dirty debauchery, Joy Ride unapologetically goes beyond the limits of your typical comedy, uninhibited and without regrets. - InSession Film
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| Posted Jul 01, 2023
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Run Rabbit Run (2023) |
Kent’s script relies too heavily on standard horror tropes that are repetitive. - InSession Film
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| Posted Jun 29, 2023
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Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (2023) |
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny begins to recapture some of the original trilogy's magic but falls into a bizarre tone-deaf third act that takes away most of our goodwill. - Ready Steady Cut
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| Posted Jun 28, 2023
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