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REVIEW: Seussian Cartoon <i>The Grinch</i>
Britt Hayes

REVIEW: Seussian Cartoon The Grinch

Nov 8th, 2018
It’s a tale as old as time — or at least as old as 1957, when Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas! was first published: A mean, green,...
REVIEW: Action Thriller <i>The Girl in the Spider's Web</i>
Britt Hayes

REVIEW: Action Thriller The Girl in the Spider's Web

Nov 8th, 2018
From the opening credits, it’s clear that director Fede Alvarez hopes audiences will draw comparisons between The Girl in the Spider’s Web and...
REVIEW: Queen Biopic <i>Bohemian Rhapsody</i>
Eric D. Snider

REVIEW: Queen Biopic Bohemian Rhapsody

Nov 4th, 2018
I'm far from the first one to point this out, but Bohemian Rhapsody -- a biopic of Freddie Mercury (and, to a lesser extent, the band he fronted,...
REVIEW: Rap Comedy <i>Bodied</i>
Eric D. Snider

REVIEW: Rap Comedy Bodied

Nov 2nd, 2018
My understanding of battle rap — informed entirely by Joseph Kahn’s Bodied, a devastatingly funny social commentary — is that it’s like a...
REVIEW: Raunchy Rom-Com <i>Nobody's Fool</i>
Eric D. Snider

REVIEW: Raunchy Rom-Com Nobody's Fool

Nov 2nd, 2018
Though written and directed by Tyler Perry, Nobody's Fool starts out bearing little resemblance to a Tyler Perry film. For one thing, it's just...
REVIEW: Coming-of-Age Comedy <i>Mid90s</i>
Eric D. Snider

REVIEW: Coming-of-Age Comedy Mid90s

Oct 31st, 2018
For maximum nostalgia, Mid90s is presented not in widescreen but in 4:3, the way it would have looked on TV or videotape back in the day. "Maximum...
REVIEW: Spy Spoof <i>Johnny English Strikes Again</i>
Eric D. Snider

REVIEW: Spy Spoof Johnny English Strikes Again

Oct 29th, 2018
Johnny English, Rowan Atkinson's bumbling James Bond character who is a more talkative version of his Mr. Bean character, returns for a third outing...
REVIEW: Dark Political Comedy <i>The Oath</i>
Eric D. Snider

REVIEW: Dark Political Comedy The Oath

Oct 29th, 2018
The premise behind Ike Barinholtz's dark comedy The Oath is ripe with possibilities: A liberal man and his wife host his conservative relatives for...
REVIEW: Dad Submarine Movie <i>Hunter Killer</i>
Eric D. Snider

REVIEW: Dad Submarine Movie Hunter Killer

Oct 26th, 2018
The rather arbitrarily titled Hunter Killer is a submarine movie for dads, based on a novel called Firing Point (another random title) that looks...
REVIEW: Young Adult Drama <i>The Hate U Give</i>
Eric D. Snider

REVIEW: Young Adult Drama The Hate U Give

Oct 26th, 2018
It takes its time getting there, but you know The Hate U Give is going to turn serious on us because it starts with our narrator, 16-year-old Starr...
REVIEW: Darkly Comic Western <i>The Sisters Brothers</i>
Eric D. Snider

REVIEW: Darkly Comic Western The Sisters Brothers

Oct 25th, 2018
See, they're a couple of brothers whose last name is Sisters. "The Sisters brothers." Get it? As a novel, much of what made The Sisters Brothers so...
REVIEW: Rock-Climbing Doc <i>Free Solo</i>
Eric D. Snider

REVIEW: Rock-Climbing Doc Free Solo

Oct 22nd, 2018
In the parlance of rock-climbers, to "free solo" means to climb alone and without a rope -- basically, to remove all margin for error. If you make a...
REVIEW: Weird Anti-Comedy <i>An Evening with Beverly Luff Linn</i>
Eric D. Snider

REVIEW: Weird Anti-Comedy An Evening with Beverly Luff Linn

Oct 18th, 2018
An Evening with Beverly Luff Linn is Jim Hosking's followup to his infamously irritating/amusing The Greasy Strangler, which I enjoyed as a...
REVIEW: Danish Cop Thriller <i>The Guilty</i>
Eric D. Snider

REVIEW: Danish Cop Thriller The Guilty

Oct 18th, 2018
The Guilty is a tight, efficient, 85 minutes set in a single location: the 911 call center in Copenhagen. (Except it’s not 911 over there, it’s...
REVIEW: Open Your Cold Heart to <i>Can You Ever Forgive Me?</i>
Eric D. Snider

REVIEW: Open Your Cold Heart to Can You Ever Forgive Me?

Oct 17th, 2018
Lee Israel was a journalist who made a living writing well-regarded biographies before falling on hard times after the failure of her unauthorized...
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