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2.5/4
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The Falling Star
(2023)
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Roger Moore
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When Abel & Gordon and their accomplices find their excuses to play to their strengths — slapstick dance, mimed mayhem and the like -- “The Falling Star” stops falling and failing. And if we don’t fall in love with it, we kind of grin and fall in “like”
Posted Sep 05, 2024
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1.5/4
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Honeymoonish
(2024)
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Roger Moore
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The modern sheen of the film is saddled to a story that feels 1930s quaint by Hollywood standards.
Posted Sep 04, 2024
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1/4
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The Ballad of Davy Crockett
(2024)
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Roger Moore
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No ballad? No coonskin cap? No Davy Crockett, even if he refers to himself as "King of the Wild Frontier."
Posted Sep 03, 2024
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2/4
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City of Dreams
(2024)
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Roger Moore
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Slow...lumbering... but Ramchandani delivers a dazzling third act chase, on foot, through L.A.’s sweatshop district, a nervy, hand-held sprint that finally gets this static story up on its feet.
Posted Sep 02, 2024
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1.5/4
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Betrayal
(2024)
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Roger Moore
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A Scottish thriller with simple primal plot undone by a leaky script and a loss of nerve.
Posted Sep 02, 2024
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4/4
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Matewan
(1987)
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Roger Moore
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The greatest indie epic ever, a documentary-real historical film of scope, high stakes and great performances
Posted Sep 02, 2024
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1/4
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The Deliverance
(2024)
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Roger Moore
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If Lee Daniels is not as embarassed as Glenn Close probably is by this, he ought to be.
Posted Sep 01, 2024
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3.5/4
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Chuck Chuck Baby
(2023)
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Roger Moore
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An adorable, uplifting ache of a movie
Posted Aug 31, 2024
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2/4
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1992
(2024)
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Roger Moore
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Even straining to get to the label “solid,” “1992” delivers on the two things its intent and delayed-release promise. It’s a Gibson showcase and a Liotta curtain call worth seeing, shortcomings be damned.
Posted Aug 30, 2024
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1.5/4
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Reagan
(2024)
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Roger Moore
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For conservatives, Reagan has become Muhammad, the Prophet whose name no non-believer ever dare utter.
Posted Aug 30, 2024
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1/4
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One Fast Move
(2024)
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Roger Moore
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Several scenes of solid if unspectacular motorcycle racing and stunt driving footage in search of a plot...and an inefficient delivery vehicle for sports movie bromides and cliches, almost all of them growled by Eric Dane
Posted Aug 29, 2024
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1.5/4
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You Gotta Believe
(2024)
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Roger Moore
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The baseball is sloppy and the sentiments border on maudlin
Posted Aug 27, 2024
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2.5/4
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Jack Has a Plan
(2022)
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Roger Moore
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The film underscores Jack as a charmer who was well connected enough to pull all this together and pull off this “plan” — party, pharmaceutical suicide, funeral, all of it filmed. We all want to be remembered, and Jack seems oddly obsessed with that.
Posted Aug 27, 2024
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3.5/4
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Point Blank
(1967)
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Roger Moore
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A brutal, blunt-instrument of a thriller
Posted Aug 26, 2024
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1/4
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Incoming
(2024)
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Roger Moore
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A rough and tumble cut and pasting from every teen movie to precede it.
Posted Aug 26, 2024
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4/4
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G.I. Joe
(1945)
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Roger Moore
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The “Citizen Kane” of combat dramas, the “Saving Private Ryan” of its day.
Posted Aug 24, 2024
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2.5/4
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Blink Twice
(2024)
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Roger Moore
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The "Get Out" of "Believe Women."
Posted Aug 23, 2024
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0/4
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The Crow
(2024)
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Roger Moore
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Never overcomes a general heartlessness that permeates even the abrupt romance that supposedly launches and drives it.
Posted Aug 23, 2024
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2/4
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The Long Night
(1947)
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Roger Moore
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Polished..slow...melodramatic...But Fonda and Price fans will still find plenty to relish in their parts in it.
Posted Aug 20, 2024
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2/4
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The Other Laurens
(2023)
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Roger Moore
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A slow, drifting mystery thriller...director and co-writer Claude Schmitz...doesn’t appear to know the word “pacing” in Flemish, Walloon, or any of the three languages that turn up in “L’autre Laurens” — French, Spanish or English.
Posted Aug 19, 2024
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1.5/4
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The Union
(2024)
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Roger Moore
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Generic in the extreme, predictable to a laughable degree and littered with dialogue as inane and cliched as the characters and the situations.
Posted Aug 19, 2024
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4/4
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Gloria
(1980)
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Roger Moore
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The film and the legend who played the title role remain pistol-packing empowerment incarnate, a reminder about the life experience and toughness of “post menopausal women” that only sexist “sisstes” would dare underestimate.
Posted Aug 18, 2024
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1/4
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Jackpot!
(2024)
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Roger Moore
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Paul Feig created the cult series “Freaks and Geeks,” directed “Bridesmaids” and “A Simple Favor” and the first twenty minutes of “Jackpot!” — which he also directed — is bad enough to make one forget ALL of that.
Posted Aug 17, 2024
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1.5/4
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Alien: Romulus
(2024)
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Roger Moore
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In space, no one can hear you yawn is hardly a selling point.
Posted Aug 16, 2024
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1.5/4
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Skincare
(2024)
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Roger Moore
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As frustrating as a fresh wedding day zit, and sadly, about as inconsequential.
Posted Aug 16, 2024
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2.5/4
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Rob Peace
(2024)
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Roger Moore
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Will, Ejiofor and Blige...make this odyssey feel personal and the pitfalls we see coming and ever-mounting life tests seem surmountable if only this brilliant mind isn't wasted by an America reluctant to embrace "Whatever hurts my brother hurts me."
Posted Aug 15, 2024
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1.5/4
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The Greatest Surf Movie in the Universe
(2024)
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Roger Moore
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Kind of shambolic, half-assed and terrible, but almost amusing in the right frame of mind (altered) and with the right audience (surfers).
Posted Aug 14, 2024
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1.5/4
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Lolo and the Kid
(2024)
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Roger Moore
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The lack of surprises and fear of getting too “edgy” undo a promising portrait of street life among the “cheaters” who start to feel the “cheated” may have something to offer beyond what they can steal from them.
Posted Aug 14, 2024
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1/4
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Surprise!
(2024)
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Roger Moore
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The screenplay never gets past that “workshop this into something sharper” stage, and the many players never transcend that “promising introduction” that their characters are given.
Posted Aug 13, 2024
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1.5/4
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The Beast Within
(2024)
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Roger Moore
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A stylish, allegorical werewolf thriller that toys with its mysteries but can never escape the absurdity that clumsy plotting built into it.
Posted Aug 13, 2024
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1/4
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Angry Neighbors
(2022)
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Roger Moore
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The insipid voice-over narration rivals the inane “chapter” headings of a story that starts with a germ of an idea and spirals quickly down the drain.
Posted Aug 11, 2024
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2.5/4
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The Crimson Kimono
(1959)
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Roger Moore
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The setting, the cultural exploration and the race-consciousness of it all... give “The Crimson Kimono” just enough edge to be worth your trouble.
Posted Aug 11, 2024
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2.5/4
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It Ends With Us
(2024)
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Roger Moore
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Don't overthink it.
Posted Aug 10, 2024
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0/4
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Borderlands
(2024)
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Roger Moore
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Tosses Oscar winners Cate Blanchett and Jamie Lee Curtis into an Eli Roth Cuisanart of crap,
Posted Aug 10, 2024
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2/4
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The Instigators
(2024)
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Roger Moore
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A cascading cluster Affleck about a caper going wrong, more wrong and as wrong as it can go
Posted Aug 09, 2024
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1.5/4
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French Girl
(2024)
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Roger Moore
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A 75 minute dawdle buried in a 106 minute movie.
Posted Aug 09, 2024
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2/4
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Golden Years
(2022)
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Roger Moore
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Even though it’s well-acted, scenic and charming enough, perhaps finding a few more laughs should have been a higher priority.
Posted Aug 08, 2024
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4/4
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The Last Detail
(1973)
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Roger Moore
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You can smell 1973 in “The Last Detail” — cheap stogeys and Schlitz, dank taxis running on leaded gas, smoke-filled rail cars and down-market brothels, simple burger-with-onion diner fare and sailors in salty pea coats
Posted Aug 07, 2024
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1/4
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Me Time
(2022)
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Roger Moore
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When you give your all to something that was probably never going to work thanks to the script, “stop trying” can’t help but cross your mind.
Posted Aug 07, 2024
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2/4
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The Last Front
(2024)
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Roger Moore
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Not a subtle film...but it's handsomely mounted and well-acted (and) Glen is a magnificent presence who holds the melodramatic elements together, no matter how far-fetched they get.
Posted Aug 06, 2024
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3.5/4
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Le Samouraï
(1967)
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Roger Moore
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Rightly regarded as THE hit-man movie, the one which most modern thrillers in this lone-gunman genre spin out of.
Posted Aug 05, 2024
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2/4
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House of Ga'a
(2024)
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Roger Moore
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A sweeping historical epic...undone by a general ham-fisted approach to the situations, characters, dialogue and plot.
Posted Aug 05, 2024
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3/4
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Great Absence
(2023)
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Roger Moore
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The director of the engrossing, culture-dissecting “Complicity” makes his subtext Japanese culture itself — with an ageing populace, rigid social codes and adult children at a loss to understand how it call came undone in a single generation.
Posted Aug 04, 2024
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1/4
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Atone
(2019)
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Roger Moore
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A short but stumbling fight your way through a huge church thriller that gives away its intentions early and falls into every bad guy cliche in the book
Posted Aug 03, 2024
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1.5/4
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Trap
(2024)
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Roger Moore
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M. Night falls into the parent "Trap."
Posted Aug 02, 2024
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1/4
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Harold and the Purple Crayon
(2024)
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Roger Moore
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Misguided, dull and mostly humorless
Posted Aug 02, 2024
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2/4
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Breaking and Re-entering
(2024)
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Roger Moore
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Cutesie...jaunty...a jokey, violent and lighthearted collection of heist movie cliches rendered in caper comedy form.
Posted Aug 01, 2024
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3/4
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Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In
(2024)
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Roger Moore
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Epic...a martial arts "Gangs of New York"
Posted Aug 01, 2024
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2.5/4
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The Dead Don't Hurt
(2023)
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Roger Moore
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Slow...rambling...meandering...a film that’s easier to appreciate and like than it is to defend.
Posted Jul 31, 2024
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3/4
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Strange Darling
(2023)
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Roger Moore
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Mollner is unsparing in the torture and violence and unblinking in the gender politics he puts in play. And Fitzgerald and Gallner just flat out bring it
Posted Jul 30, 2024
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