Category: Films
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‘Legend’ isn’t quite legendary, but it’s damn close
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Tom Hardy gives one of the finest turns as an actor playing twins, ever.
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Documentary film ‘Kingdom of Shadows’ tries to shine a light on the drug trade
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While interesting in approach, it’s too short and a bit jumbled.
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‘Spotlight’ shines brilliantly across the big screen
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A film that might be the best investigative reporting movie of this century.
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‘Trumbo’ is a movie that’s every bit as outstanding as the scripts he wrote
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Director Jay Roach serves up a terrific dramatic film.
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‘Spectre’ is an excellent Bond film, but pales in comparison to ‘Skyfall’
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Great set pieces lift the uneven pacing of the movie.
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‘Our Brand is Crisis’ is an excellent fictionalization of a true story
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Inspired by the 2005 documentary of the same name, it’s entertaining and informative.
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A walk across the ‘Bridge of Spies’ is well worth the trip
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Another great film from the outstanding Steven Spielberg.
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‘Freeheld’ tells an important story, but doesn’t do that story justice
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In the United States, only New Jersey labels its county legislators as “freeholders” and this is a film about what the freeholders who ran Ocean County did to one of its long-time county employees.
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‘Sicario’ hits it out of the ballpark
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Bleak. Gritty. Raw. Realistic. Gripping. There are at least two dozen adjectives that can be properly applied to describe Sicario, the latest film from Denis Villeneuve.
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Director Tarsem Singh’s ‘Self/less’ is sadly, soulless
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To call this film lacking is a massive understatement.