The rape-revenge sub-genre has many entries, and everything about Revenge (including the title) sounds derivative until you get to the credits. How […]
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There are two premises in Bad Samaritan, one that drives the plot and one that explains the villain’s motives. They are […]
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Diablo Cody’s screenwriting career started with a pregnant teenager named Juno. She returns to the subject of maternity with Tully, but […]
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Any remake of the 1987 Goldie Hawn/Kurt Russell “romantic” “comedy” Overboard would have to reverse the genders. A single father of three […]
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Some movies provide so much vivid detail about a character that you could practically write a biography. Lynne Ramsay’s mesmerizing You […]
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There are no literal hauntings in Ismael’s Ghosts, a wry, lyrical, but often plodding drama from director Arnaud Desplechin (A Christmas […]
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You can go crazy trying to understand the thinking of people who make and sell Hollywood blockbusters, but what they’ve done […]
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You can tell Traffik is a serious movie about scary things because it’s spelled with a “k.” “Traffic,” who cares? But “traffik”?? […]
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Experience has taught us not to get our hopes up about long-awaited sequels, especially sequels to films whose charms were obscure […]
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There are some good ideas and thoughtful insights buried in the very messy I Feel Pretty, a comedy about female self-image […]
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Few actors are better suited to play a diplomat than Jon Hamm, and the erstwhile Don Draper brings his gregarious A-game […]
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Based on the infamous 1969 incident in which a young woman drowned after a probably-drunk Sen. Ted Kennedy drove his car […]
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