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1/4
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Tonight You're Sleeping With Me
(2023)
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Roger Moore
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A Polish romance whose title is a promise about what it provides... an invitation to a nap.
Posted Mar 03, 2023
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2/4
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A Little White Lie
(2023)
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Roger Moore
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Shannon makes the character credible on several levels, a simple man capable of "Being There" profundities, the very picture of the "haunted artist." Or fake haunted artist. There's a sign of life, here and there, but not enough.
Posted Mar 02, 2023
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1.5/4
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The Donor Party
(2023)
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Roger Moore
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A raunchy, skirt-hiking farce that never quite achieves the happy ending all involved were hoping for, although it finds a few laughs and some oh-no-they-didn'ts.
Posted Mar 01, 2023
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1.5/4
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The Pilgrim
(2021)
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Roger Moore
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A serene, scenic and soul-searching indie drama that goes adrift as it charts an over-familiar course.
Posted Mar 01, 2023
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2.5/4
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Operation Fortune: Ruse de guerre
(2023)
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Roger Moore
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The whole thing is a Bond-lite lark... a “Mission: Improbable" ...for Statham to bust out a little of the bald-headed, five o’clock shadow fight choreography that made him rich.
Posted Mar 01, 2023
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1.5/4
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Transfusion
(2023)
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Roger Moore
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Worthington’s not a bad actor, handling the fight choreography and the sensitive scenes with his usual skill. But this story is all over the place.
Posted Mar 01, 2023
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2.5/4
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Nanpakal Nerathu Mayakkam
(2023)
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Roger Moore
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James, an ordinary, burly, middle-aged Malayam, has woken up as Sundaram, a long-missing husband and father now back at "home" in the Tamil Twilight Zone.
Posted Feb 28, 2023
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3.5/4
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Film, the Living Record of Our Memory
(2021)
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Roger Moore
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If you love movies and think you know the medium’s history, prepare to be overwhelmed.
Posted Feb 28, 2023
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1/4
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Children of the Corn
(2023)
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Roger Moore
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This “Corn” sat on the shelf during COVID lockdown, but we can’t say it went stale during the delay. This was cynical in conception and rotten in execution long before the masks came out.
Posted Feb 27, 2023
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1.5/4
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Call Me Chihiro
(2023)
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Roger Moore
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A movie this long and this still practically begs to be taken more seriously than what transpires on the screen actually merits.
Posted Feb 27, 2023
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4/4
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Romeo and Juliet
(1968)
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Roger Moore
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A movie whose luster grows with the passage of time.
Posted Feb 26, 2023
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2.5/4
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Kubrick by Kubrick
(2020)
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Roger Moore
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Is it the last word? Can’t be.
Is it even complete? The documentary was 13 minutes longer when it played festivals. But it’s still a must-see for Kubrick fans...
Posted Feb 25, 2023
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1.5/4
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The Womb
(2022)
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Roger Moore
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An occasionally tense but generally tedious horrors-of-giving-birth tale from Indonesia.
Posted Feb 24, 2023
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2/4
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The Secret Invasion
(1964)
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Roger Moore
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Hands down, the most scenic B-movie Corman ever made.
Posted Feb 24, 2023
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1.5/4
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We Have a Ghost
(2023)
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Roger Moore
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Dishonors pretty much every hit film it steals from.
Posted Feb 24, 2023
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2/4
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Creed III
(2023)
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Roger Moore
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Quiet, almost stately, a real actor’s picture...but...a humorless, dry retread of the lesser, later “Rocky” movies, a molehill of a tale for our boxing titans to climb.
Posted Feb 24, 2023
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3/4
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Northern Shade
(2022)
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Roger Moore
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An intimate thriller with personal agendas, limited people making rash, limiting decisions with life or death consequences, with no one there to talk them out of any of it.
Posted Feb 24, 2023
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2/4
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Cocaine Bear
(2023)
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Roger Moore
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It isn’t quite “Snakes on a Plane,” a high concept comedy in which ALL of the fun is in the title and the billing. But it’s too close.
Posted Feb 23, 2023
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3/4
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The Strays
(2023)
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Roger Moore
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A fine, paranoid thriller about race, the many shades of racism and “appearances.”
Posted Feb 23, 2023
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2.5/4
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Jesus Revolution
(2023)
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Roger Moore
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Lulls aside, “Jesus Revolution” works in that classic upbeat California vibe way. It’s not any sort of breakthrough as a movie or a “movement” moment. But it makes a nice contrast to the religious rhetoric of today
Posted Feb 23, 2023
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2/4
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Pacifiction
(2022)
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Roger Moore
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A filmic piece of flotsam that one and all drift along with, touching on themes but never wrestling with them, glimpsing the sights but never really showing them to us.
Posted Feb 22, 2023
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2/4
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Of an Age
(2022)
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Roger Moore
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Stolevski’s over-reliance on close-ups gives us detailed maps of each man’s dermatology, but tends to wash away the extra impact we’d feel about bigger moments of connection.
Posted Feb 22, 2023
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2.5/4
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Linoleum
(2022)
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Roger Moore
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I don’t think all of it works. And making a graceful exit counts for something and is the one place where I think West overreaches.
Posted Feb 21, 2023
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1.5/4
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Possessed
(2022)
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Roger Moore
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Even if the Malaysian undead don’t have the rules of “Zombieland” down pat, the effects are decent and the makeup is outstanding even if the plot is canned/store-brand generic and the frights not all that frightening.
Posted Feb 21, 2023
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1.5/4
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iMordecai
(2022)
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Roger Moore
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Juddy Hirsch gives...a fun performance in a poor-to-middling dramedy.
Posted Feb 21, 2023
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1.5/4
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A Sunday Affair
(2023)
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Roger Moore
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A soapy love-triangle melodrama bathed in Nigerian affluence. The plotting is obvious, the acting stiff and stagebound and the payoff an eye-roller. Aside from that…
Posted Feb 21, 2023
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2/4
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Juniper
(2021)
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Roger Moore
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A dry, unemotional blend of dark comedy and co-dependency, scenic but desultory, even when Rampling is at her best.
Posted Feb 20, 2023
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1.5/4
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How I Became a Gangster
(2020)
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Roger Moore
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Trots out every plot device, every trope and every cliche of every gangster picture of the past twenty years and gives them all a coke-flavored Polish accent.
Posted Feb 20, 2023
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2.5/4
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God's Time
(2022)
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Roger Moore
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It’s not every rom-com that dares to let you hate the leading lady, dares you to find an excuse to like her and dares to make her an object of pity and concern by the time she’s smashed her way through this 12 step China shop.
Posted Feb 19, 2023
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1/4
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Bunker
(2022)
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Roger Moore
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Too sober to be a proper fright fest, and too tame and tedious to be a worthy WWI tale.
Posted Feb 18, 2023
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3/4
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Gods of Mexico
(2022)
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Roger Moore
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Summons up memories of the beginning of documentary filmmaking -- the Urtext films by Robert Flaherty...anthropological in nature...as magical as it is mesmerizing.
Posted Feb 18, 2023
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3/4
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Unlocked
(2023)
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Roger Moore
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A crackling, nervy and above all sinister parable that will make any viewer think twice and thrice about letting one’s cell phone out of your sight.
Posted Feb 17, 2023
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2/4
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Three Day Millionaire
(2022)
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Roger Moore
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As even Guy Ritchie isn’t really making “Guy Ritchie movies” any more — God help us, “Aladdin 2” is on the way...maybe mimicking the master, even somewhat clumsily, isn’t the smartest play these days.
Posted Feb 17, 2023
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2.5/4
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Lamya's Poem
(2021)
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Roger Moore
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More high-minded and well-intentioned than entertaining, but that doesn’t blunt its impact or render it less watchable.
Posted Feb 16, 2023
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2/4
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Re/Member
(2022)
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Roger Moore
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Does just well enough by a killer concept to merit a Hollywood remake, because this version stumbles here and there, and simply fails at the finish.
Posted Feb 16, 2023
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2.5/4
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Yanagawa
(2021)
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Roger Moore
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A melancholy Chinese romance of love-unconfessed and much else left unsaid
Posted Feb 16, 2023
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2.5/4
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Hidden Blade
(2023)
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Roger Moore
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I found the whole "Hidden Blade" rather less satisfying than its component parts. The many characters, myriad plot points and points of view and added complications with the timeline just clutter things up.
Posted Feb 16, 2023
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2.5/4
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Marlowe
(2022)
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Roger Moore
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It’d be hard to imagine this cast, with Neeson reuniting with his “Michael Collins” director and his “Kingdom of Heaven” screenwriter, not giving something resembling fair value.
Posted Feb 15, 2023
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1.5/4
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All the Places
(2023)
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Roger Moore
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The makings of a charming formula road picture are here. But director Pitipol Ybarra and screenwriter Adriana Pelusi abandoned too many ingredients for "All the Things" to come off.
Posted Feb 15, 2023
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2/4
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88
(2022)
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Roger Moore
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It’s possible to be a bit awed by the “JFK” ambition of “88,” even if the execution waters down Eromose’s message to the point where we wonder if he’s simply lost his nerve.
Posted Feb 14, 2023
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1.5/4
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Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania
(2023)
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Roger Moore
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‘Avatar’ with Ants…and some jokes.
Posted Feb 14, 2023
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1/4
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At Midnight
(2023)
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Roger Moore
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At some point, as a romantic comedy is failing right before your eyes, you settle for “at least it’s not offensive.”
Posted Feb 14, 2023
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3/4
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Emily
(2022)
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Roger Moore
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(Emma Mackey) transforms Emily from a repressed Yorkshire artist who channeled her passions onto the pages of one of the Great Romantic Novels into a human being of sexual passion, love and heartbreak, and a thing for Men on the Moors.
Posted Feb 13, 2023
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2/4
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Devil's Peak
(2023)
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Roger Moore
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They had the makings of a solid, gritty and distinctly Southern B-picture. But their young lead...has an arresting look and yet little screen presence or acting craft (no acting school for him) to compensate for that.
Posted Feb 13, 2023
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1/4
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Squared Love All Over Again
(2023)
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Roger Moore
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So mild-mannered that even the sources of conflict are rendered in shades of beige.
Posted Feb 13, 2023
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2/4
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Consecration
(2023)
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Roger Moore
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Director and co-writer Christopher Smith, who did “The Banishing,” has a distinct visual style that makes his not-quite-horrific-thrillers look better than they play.
Posted Feb 11, 2023
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1.5/4
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Your Place or Mine
(2023)
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Roger Moore
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Zoe Chao cases the joint, procures something to pick the bicycle-lock of this simple scenario, and steals it. She had to know that...nobody would make a fuss over petty theft.
Posted Feb 10, 2023
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1/4
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Remember Yesterday
(2022)
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Roger Moore
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Instantly forgettable.
Posted Feb 10, 2023
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2.5/4
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Coven of Sisters
(2020)
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Roger Moore
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A horror story in which the real horror is but a metaphor for what women are up against, seemingly everywhere.
Posted Feb 10, 2023
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0/4
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Magic Mike's Last Dance
(2023)
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Roger Moore
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Seriously?
Posted Feb 10, 2023
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