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Barbie
(2023)
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Tom Fitzgerald and Lorenzo Marquez
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The film tries to do too much, but we can’t be anything less than deeply impressed that anyone came up with too many smart, funny, biting things to say in a movie about Barbie, of all things.
Posted Aug 01, 2023
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Cruella
(2021)
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Tom Fitzgerald and Lorenzo Marquez
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Cruella manages to overcome its inherent flaws with tremendous style and just enough of a flirtation with tearing down the Disney machinery to make it feel edgier than it actually is.
Posted Dec 07, 2022
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Promising Young Woman
(2020)
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Tom Fitzgerald and Lorenzo Marquez
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A film of abundance and contradictions: triumphant tragedy, enraging comedy, confusing carthasis.
Posted Dec 21, 2020
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Rebecca
(2020)
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Tom Fitzgerald and Lorenzo Marquez
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It's not an awful film, just a perfectly acceptable one. Cinematic wallpaper.
Posted Dec 21, 2020
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The Midnight Sky
(2020)
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Tom Fitzgerald and Lorenzo Marquez
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We did not respond well to it, not least because the characterization of everyone involved was too shallow for us to truly become invested.
Posted Dec 21, 2020
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Cuties
(2020)
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Tom Fitzgerald and Lorenzo Marquez
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It's an excellent film I should say because it depicts the pain of childhood... I'm just going to say... I could understand the objections to was how these girls were shot because they are real girls.
Posted Oct 08, 2020
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The Boys in the Band
(2020)
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Tom Fitzgerald and Lorenzo Marquez
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A beautifully acted, sensitively directed, exquisitely art-directed snapshot of pre-Stonewall gay male socializing, with all its attendant shade, sorrow and self-loathing.
Posted Oct 07, 2020
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The Old Guard
(2020)
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Tom Fitzgerald and Lorenzo Marquez
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If this is what's next for superheroes, we're all for it. And we can't wait for the sequel.
Posted Jul 16, 2020
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Disclosure
(2020)
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Tom Fitzgerald and Lorenzo Marquez
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Disclosure is an unprecedented, eye-opening look at transgender depictions in film and television, revealing how Hollywood simultaneously reflects and manufactures our deepest anxieties about gender.
Posted Jun 27, 2020
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Judy
(2019)
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Tom Fitzgerald and Lorenzo Marquez
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There's very little about the story or even the style of filmmaking that would set it apart... But it has one spectacular tool at its disposal... the intense and totally captivating performance by Renee Zellweger.
Posted Sep 19, 2019
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Downton Abbey
(2019)
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Tom Fitzgerald and Lorenzo Marquez
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As cinema, it's pretty but mediocre. As delightful fan service, it can't be beat.
Posted Sep 11, 2019
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Once Upon a Time... In Hollywood
(2019)
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Tom Fitzgerald and Lorenzo Marquez
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We'll just applaud the director for ending on such a discussable note - and for offering up one of the more fascinating, thoughtful, visually rich, well-acted and just all-around entertaining films of 2019.
Posted Jul 24, 2019
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Rocketman
(2019)
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Tom Fitzgerald and Lorenzo Marquez
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Regardless of whether it secures the appropriate huzzahs and awards, Rocketman is a cinematic, artistic and musical success anchored by a stunning lead performance.
Posted May 30, 2019
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Booksmart
(2019)
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Tom Fitzgerald and Lorenzo Marquez
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Booksmart is so good that it may actually go down as one of the best teen comedy films of all time.
Posted May 22, 2019
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Long Shot
(2019)
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Tom Fitzgerald and Lorenzo Marquez
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Long Shot isn't really what we'd call hilarious, but it's fun, sweet and pleasant, with two leads who really do have great chemistry with each other. What more could you ask from a rom com?
Posted May 01, 2019
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Avengers: Endgame
(2019)
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Tom Fitzgerald and Lorenzo Marquez
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Endgame is an extremely well-made film, helmed by two directors who knew exactly what they were doing the whole time.
Posted Apr 23, 2019
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Shazam!
(2019)
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Tom Fitzgerald and Lorenzo Marquez
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It was one of the best payoffs in the final act of a superhero movie that I've ever seen.
Posted Apr 12, 2019
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The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley
(2019)
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Tom Fitzgerald and Lorenzo Marquez
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The subject matter was so engrossing you almost didn't have to produce a great documentary in order to capture peoples imaginations.
Posted Mar 22, 2019
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The Wife
(2017)
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Tom Fitzgerald and Lorenzo Marquez
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Goofy-ass film, amazing performance.
Posted Feb 01, 2019
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Rent Live
(2019)
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Tom Fitzgerald and Lorenzo Marquez
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The screwup on this one is about to become legendary and will probably have massive effects on any live musical theater performances on television going forward.
Posted Jan 29, 2019
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Nothing Like a Dame
(2018)
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Tom Fitzgerald and Lorenzo Marquez
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The real meat of the film is how respectfully it portrays their insane level of talent and knowledge and how refreshingly realistic it is in how it portrays their advanced age.
Posted Jan 11, 2019
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Can You Ever Forgive Me?
(2018)
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Tom Fitzgerald and Lorenzo Marquez
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Easily one of the best film's of the year, Marielle Heller's Can You Ever Forgive Me? sports career-best performances from Melissa McCarthy and Richard E. Grant in a tender, biting, funny story about middle-aged failure and bitterness.
Posted Jan 11, 2019
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The Favourite
(2018)
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Tom Fitzgerald and Lorenzo Marquez
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This film is mean but hilarious; visually arresting and stunningly acted.
Posted Jan 11, 2019
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Vice
(2018)
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Tom Fitzgerald and Lorenzo Marquez
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Adam McKay's Vice is an energetic and entertaining look at the pursuit of power...but overall, the film's a mess and doesn't know what it wants to say about the topics it raises.
Posted Jan 11, 2019
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Aquaman
(2018)
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Tom Fitzgerald and Lorenzo Marquez
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Aquaman is so exquisitely tailored to and fitted around the outsized personality and impressive form of Jason Momoa that it's almost impossible to distinguish star from vehicle from character.
Posted Dec 19, 2018
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Mary Poppins Returns
(2018)
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Tom Fitzgerald and Lorenzo Marquez
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The pleasures in Mary Poppins Returns are simple, deliberately naive, and speak in a clear and direct manner to the hearts of children.
Posted Dec 14, 2018
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First Man
(2018)
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Tom Fitzgerald and Lorenzo Marquez
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Neil Armstrong and the men of the space program truly were heroic; not just in their bravery, but in their persistence. When First Man sticks to these ideas, it's stirring and engrossing.
Posted Oct 12, 2018
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A Star Is Born
(2018)
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Tom Fitzgerald and Lorenzo Marquez
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A Star is Born is American mainstream cinema at its very finest.
Posted Oct 04, 2018
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Maleficent
(2014)
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Tom Fitzgerald and Lorenzo Marquez
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There are times when it's fun, but it's never as fun as it could've and should've been.
Posted Jun 19, 2018
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They Came Together
(2014)
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Tom Fitzgerald and Lorenzo Marquez
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It's all mildly entertaining (mostly because of the two leads), but too often comes off like either an extended Saturday Night Live sketch or an actual (and bad) romantic comedy.
Posted Jun 19, 2018
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Unbroken
(2014)
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Tom Fitzgerald and Lorenzo Marquez
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It's all quite beautiful to look at at points, but it never indulges in the emotional weight of what's being portrayed and it manages to make this harrowing, hard-to-believe tale ... boring.
Posted Jun 18, 2018
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Wonder Woman
(2017)
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Tom Fitzgerald and Lorenzo Marquez
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Wonder Woman sits, as she should, both with the pantheon of great heroes, as well as above it.
Posted Jun 13, 2018
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Ocean's 8
(2018)
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Tom Fitzgerald and Lorenzo Marquez
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All the creative thinking seems to have dried up, leaving a bunch of very good performers weakly making their way through barely existent material.
Posted Jun 08, 2018
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Black Panther
(2018)
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Tom Fitzgerald and Lorenzo Marquez
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It is a beautifully shot family melodrama with a uniformly excellent cast imbuing every scene and interaction with affection, fear, or anger so deep, you feel it as if you were watching your own family suffer.
Posted Jun 06, 2018
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The Imitation Game
(2014)
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Tom Fitzgerald and Lorenzo Marquez
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As wonderful as Cumberbatch's performance is in many ways, we can't help thinking Turing deserved a better, more well-rounded exploration of his life than this film allowed for.
Posted Jun 06, 2018
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Avengers: Infinity War
(2018)
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Tom Fitzgerald and Lorenzo Marquez
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Despite the crowding and the abundance of story, the Russos offered up something that was relatively easy to follow, because all of the various strands of the story laid out over the last ten years were tossed aside for a simple and basic plot.
Posted Jun 05, 2018
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Solo: A Star Wars Story
(2018)
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Tom Fitzgerald and Lorenzo Marquez
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It is a rollicking, action-filled space adventure full of rogues and monsters, evil-doers and femme fatales, space ships and robots.
Posted Jun 05, 2018
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