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The Exorcist: Believer (2023) |
Perhaps the last thing you’d expect a reboot of “The Exorcist” franchise to botch is — you know — the exorcism scene - Movie Nation
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| Posted Oct 04, 2023
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Stop Making Sense (1984) |
Smiles onstage notwithstanding, the emotional heft of “The Last Waltz” or even U2’s “Rattle & Hum” is lacking...a very good concert film, an excellent snapshot of the band at its peak, but “the greatest concert film ever?” Never thought so and never will. - Movie Nation
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| Posted Oct 04, 2023
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Pre Fab! (2023) |
an amusing, informative and bittersweet documentary about the “forgotten” players in a band that would be founded by John Lennon, and would eventually include Paul McCartney and George Harrison, The Quarrymen. - Movie Nation
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| Posted Oct 04, 2023
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On Fire (2023) |
"On Fire" isn't all that, but all things considered -- the cast is good, and the fire is impressive -- it's not half bad, either. - Movie Nation
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| Posted Oct 04, 2023
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Strange Way of Life (2023) |
The Old West never seemed quite so small as it does here. - Movie Nation
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| Posted Oct 04, 2023
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A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas (2011) |
Seriously, someday you guys are going to sober up, catch this on video and wonder what gave you the giggles all those White Castle runs ago. - Movie Nation
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| Posted Oct 03, 2023
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Love Is in the Air (2023) |
Long review short, it’s a film built on a foolproof formula, in which the fools foul up the basics. - Movie Nation
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| Posted Oct 03, 2023
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Joan Baez I Am a Noise (2023) |
Her reflections on a life lived in the public eye are insightful and her memories of the many landmark civil rights events she participated in and help popularize an invaluable record of her era. - Movie Nation
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| Posted Oct 03, 2023
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Grieve (2023) |
Obscure, clumsily pretentious, under-scripted and flatly acted, there’s nothing to recommend here. - Movie Nation
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| Posted Oct 02, 2023
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Reptile (2023) |
It's perfectly watchable, but let it play on during the bathroom breaks and search for snacks. It's so slow you probably won't miss anything vital, not until the third act. - Movie Nation
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| Posted Oct 02, 2023
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Limbo (2021) |
A darker-than-dark Hong Kong serial killer thriller in the "Se7en" mold -- formulaic, but brutish and bleak and bloody-minded. - Movie Nation
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| Posted Oct 01, 2023
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Saw X (2023) |
If it wasn't for the screaming -- some of it more convincing than others -- I swear I'd have dozed off before this hit the halfway mark. - Movie Nation
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| Posted Oct 01, 2023
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The Blind (2023) |
Whatever potential it had, the film just isn’t very good, with or without fact checking. - Movie Nation
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| Posted Oct 01, 2023
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The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar (2023) |
It’s not among Dahl’s greatest hits or Anderson’s grand meringue delights, but “Henry Sugar” amuses here and there and passes by quickly, unlike the interminable “Asteroid City” and sometimes strained earlier Anderson outings. - Movie Nation
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| Posted Sep 29, 2023
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Overhaul (2023) |
Leandro Soares’ screenplay is strictly formula, from its first races to it’s “Who will be kidnapped the moment Roger says ‘I want out’?” third act, with dialogue just as unsurprising. - Movie Nation
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| Posted Sep 29, 2023
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The Creator (2023) |
If you aren’t reading the words “John David Washington” with an involuntary “Uh oh” on your lips these days, you haven’t been paying attention to the parade of piffle this most famous of “nepo babies” has turned up in since “BlackKklansman.” - Movie Nation
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| Posted Sep 29, 2023
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Accused (2023) |
As thrillers go, "Accused" is simplicity itself. - Movie Nation
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| Posted Sep 27, 2023
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Dumb Money (2023) |
For a Quixotic, quick turn-around comic thriller about stock market winners, losers and supervillains, “Dumb Money” isn’t half bad. - Movie Nation
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| Posted Sep 27, 2023
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The Stones and Brian Jones (2023) |
Doesn’t lend itself to the air of tragedy that hangs over Broomfield’s best known biographies... But it is essential viewing for any fan of ’60s music history and The Rolling Stones’ place in it - Movie Nation
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| Posted Sep 26, 2023
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Ferryman (2021) |
Kind of sadly formulaic and dispassionately passionate, but also adult and occasionally surprising in where it takes our assisted suicide sympathies. - Movie Nation
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| Posted Sep 26, 2023
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The Kill Room (2023) |
Whatever the shortcomings of comic-turned-director Nicol Paone (“Friendsgiving” was hers), the players and the mere casting of them are good for laughs. - Movie Nation
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| Posted Sep 25, 2023
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Spy Kids: Armageddon (2023) |
Bland leads, a story that feels similar to many other “Spy Kids” adventures and the paucity of colorful supporting players kind of washes the Spanish/Spanglish fun right out of this most Tex-Mex of kids’ franchises. - Movie Nation
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| Posted Sep 23, 2023
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And Then Come the Nightjars (2023) |
A lovely film with a somber, sad undertone, a country life "dying of the light" that makes the journey from stage to screen with its heart still broken, but intact. - Movie Nation
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| Posted Sep 23, 2023
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Quicksand (2023) |
I can’t say it all works or that I “highly” recommend it. But it kind of plays, and it pays off. - Movie Nation
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| Posted Sep 22, 2023
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The Saint of Second Chances (2023) |
Entertaining, pretty much start to finish - Movie Nation
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| Posted Sep 22, 2023
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Dark Asset (2023) |
With stinkers like “Deuces,” Malicious” and a Steven Seagal atrocity titled “Code of Honor” on his resume, “unsurprising” and “bad” are pretty much writer-director Michael Winnick’s brand. - Movie Nation
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| Posted Sep 22, 2023
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Expend4bles (2023) |
Many involved stopped trying on the first take or third rewrite. It’s just gassed. - Movie Nation
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| Posted Sep 22, 2023
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Head Count (2023) |
For all of Jakubenko’s roguish screen presence, “Head Count” is decidedly less than the sum of its parts...cluttered and confusing for a movie only a lean 80 minutes long. - Movie Nation
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| Posted Sep 21, 2023
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Fair Play (2023) |
Oddly-dated, obvious and overwrought melodrama about gender roles and the toxic masculinity of Wall Street hedge funders.. practically a parody of decades of women in the workplace romantic thrillers...with Phoebe Dynevor in the Dakota Johnson role. - Movie Nation
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| Posted Sep 20, 2023
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Love at First Sight (2023) |
Veteran TV director Vanessa Caswell fights a losing battle with “cloying” much of the time. But the emotional stuff resonates, the leads are charming and engaging and the setting is London - Movie Nation
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| Posted Sep 19, 2023
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The Prisoner (1955) |
There have been much better interview/interrogation thrillers this rather stagebound, flatly-directed, unemotional “message” wrapped in black and white celluloid. - Movie Nation
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| Posted Sep 19, 2023
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Mister Organ (2022) |
Farrier’s frustrations spill off the screen and give the viewer the same anxiety the reporter feels, the same anxiety anyone shares who knows something about facing down a lying, harassing, bullying moron who won’t leave you be. - Movie Nation
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| Posted Sep 19, 2023
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Creation of the Gods I: Kingdom of Storms (2023) |
Dazzling to look at, but...as storytelling, it's cluttered...a movie that gets lost in endless exposition, a parade of intertitles naming this or that figure in the "plot" and their relation to this or that king, as if that really helps.
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| Posted Sep 18, 2023
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Red River (1948) |
Hawks and Chase invented or perfected most of the tropes of cattle drive tales with this classic film. - Movie Nation
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| Posted Sep 17, 2023
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Freestyle (2023) |
Energy, violence and a breathless pace cover some of this film's many sins - Movie Nation
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| Posted Sep 17, 2023
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Walk on the Wild Side (1962) |
Tennessee Williams Lite...But try and take your eyes off Fonda in this melodramatic but rarely sentimental Great Depression tale of women and a Big Easy brothel - Movie Nation
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| Posted Sep 16, 2023
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El Conde (2023) |
Frustrating...an allegory that works but never quite scores a knock-out blow and a satiric thriller that manages a lot of still-angry name-calling but little sense that this will ever be enough. - Movie Nation
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| Posted Sep 16, 2023
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Little Jar (2022) |
Whatever potential this material might have had is frittered away in a script that doesn’t play or read as funny and direction that can’t help that. - Movie Nation
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| Posted Sep 16, 2023
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Flora and Son (2023) |
Eve Hewson brings an earthy, overripe vitality and Irish outspokenness to Flora. Joseph Gordon-Levitt becomes the living embodiment of the soulful, sensitive West Coast singer-songwriter. - Movie Nation
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| Posted Sep 15, 2023
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Ehrengard: The Art of Seduction (2023) |
Once this picture finally rises out of its torpor, it’s damned delightful. The third act has action, intrigues, comedy and a jaw-dropping surprise or two. More’s the pity since the opening acts are such a sexless, humorless drag. - Movie Nation
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| Posted Sep 15, 2023
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Satanic Hispanics (2022) |
Like all such anthology packages, it’s uneven. But when it’s good, it’s chilling, or in the case of “El Vampiro” and “The Hammer of Zanzibar” (directed by Alejandro Brugués), a guaranteed spit-take or two. - Movie Nation
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| Posted Sep 15, 2023
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Camp Hideout (2023) |
There isn’t much here, and there’s absolutely nothing here we haven’t seen in every other summer camp comedy — on film or on TV — that preceded this one, including the fact that Christopher Lloyd’s on board. - Movie Nation
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| Posted Sep 15, 2023
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Once Upon a Crime (2023) |
Tedious, tin-eared Japanese take on The Brothers Grimm that finds almost nothing funny in (them), just a lot of cute Japanese actresses and actors flippantly making light of Western fairytale tropes and characters, only not light enough. - Movie Nation
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| Posted Sep 14, 2023
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Bitter Victory (1958) |
Ray's French co-production betrays a certain sloppiness, pretty much start to finish. “Bitter Victory” predates the golden age of “military advisors,” and bears little resemblence to the better combat films of the era. - Movie Nation
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| Posted Sep 14, 2023
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Waiting for the Light to Change (2022) |
There isn't much going on here, and even some of that isn't explained on the screen between the opening shot and the closing credits, which is where it counts. - Movie Nation
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| Posted Sep 13, 2023
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Friday Night Plan (2023) |
Genial but utterly generic “get-to-the-big-party” teen comedy, a slow-footed Indian version of a universal formula that was never limited to just Hollywood - Movie Nation
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| Posted Sep 13, 2023
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Borderline (2023) |
An awful, amateurish “psychosexual thriller” that lurches between straight-up sexual exploitation and heavy-handed downward-spiral-of-drug-addiction cliches. - Movie Nation
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| Posted Sep 13, 2023
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Rotting in the Sun (2023) |
If you watch only one sexually-explict gay sex romp/missing person mystery this year… - Movie Nation
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| Posted Sep 12, 2023
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The Origin of Evil (2022) |
It’s not “Lear” or “Knives Out” or “Succession,” but “The Origin of Evil” works, a thriller that keeps you guessing as it keeps time like a pretty good French knockoff Swiss watch. - Movie Nation
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| Posted Sep 12, 2023
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Outlaw Johnny Black (2023) |
There’s no giddyap or get-up-and-go to a 132 minute movie with 75 minutes of plot and jokes. Not even Michael Jai White’s cool enough to cover for that. - Movie Nation
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| Posted Sep 12, 2023
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