Our mini-reviews of “My Sweet Monster,” “Godforsaken,” “Spiritwalker,” and more recent straight-to-VOD fare.
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Whatever happened to the man behind three of the best movies of 1992?
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When Howard Hawks’ iconic gangster movie hit screens 90 years ago, it had to do a bit of a two-step with the enforcers of the Production Code.
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Director John Frankenheimer and star Burt Lancaster continued their fruitful ‘60s collaboration with this mean, muscular adventure thriller, now streaming on Amazon Prime.
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Michael Bay’s latest is a silly but smashing entertainment, an extended chase that takes all of his signature flourishes and cranks them up to top volume.
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Janus Metz Pedersen’s slow burn espionage thriller has plenty of ambition and two game stars, but little else going for it.
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Mary Pickford was born 130 years ago this week. She was a groundbreaking silent movie star, but she also created a template for industry power that is still followed today.
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This month, we look back at Miramax’s messy mishandling of what should’ve been a slam-dunk entry in the “Shakespeare for teens” craze.
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A quarter-century after the release of Kevin Smith’s slacker rom-com, we look at its gradual fall from public favor – and make the case for its virtues.
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Ernst Lubitsch’s comedy about a ménage à trois (now streaming on the Ccriterion Channel) is a Pre-Code treat – a sexy, free-spirited examination of attraction and affection.
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The long-long-long-delayed Jared Leto supervillian tale has finally hit theaters, and it was not worth the wait.
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The final film from director J. Lee Thompson – and his final collaboration with star Charles Bronson – is a fitting postscript to their sketchy legacy.
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