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Dead Man's Wire
(2025)
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Leonard Maltin
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Dead Man’s Wire is an unpretentious, engrossing movie that’s well worth seeing
Posted Jan 12, 2026
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Song Sung Blue
(2025)
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Leonard Maltin
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You don’t have to be a Neil Diamond fan to like this movie--you don’t even have to respond to the callback in "Sweet Caroline." I loved it.
Posted Dec 26, 2025
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The Choral
(2025)
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Leonard Maltin
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The Choral may not be exceptional but it is beautifully crafted and performed. The music is glorious. What more could one ask for.
Posted Dec 26, 2025
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Avatar: Fire and Ash
(2025)
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Leonard Maltin
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Any filmmaker who asks a moviegoer to sit still for more than three hours had better have a really good reason. James Cameron does not. I lost an afternoon to the latest AVATAR movie and I can’t get it back.
Posted Dec 21, 2025
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Jay Kelly
(2025)
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Leonard Maltin
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Jay Kelly may be flawed but it is compelling, and there it’s always a pleasure to watch George Clooney, especially in a part that suits him so well
Posted Dec 12, 2025
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Nouvelle Vague
(2025)
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Leonard Maltin
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As a movie lover I was utterly enraptured by Nouvelle Vague. It makes you feel as if this is all unfolding right in front of your eyes. It has immediacy and complete credibility
Posted Dec 03, 2025
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Train Dreams
(2025)
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Leonard Maltin
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If there is a lovelier, more heartfelt film than Train Dreams now playing in theaters I have yet to see it
Posted Nov 21, 2025
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Nuremberg
(2025)
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Leonard Maltin
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This movie isn’t consumed with self-importance, despite some obvious parallels to current events. This is entertainment that happens to be rooted in reality about a day of reckoning the likes of which the world hasn’t seen in a long, long time
Posted Nov 08, 2025
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Frankenstein
(2025)
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Leonard Maltin
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James Whale’s 1931 Frankenstein remains the classic it has always been, but Guillermo Del Toro’s Frankenstein deserves to be absorbed and celebrated right alongside it. This is the movie he was born to make
Posted Nov 02, 2025
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A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE
(2025)
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Leonard Maltin
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Bigelow has a firm grip on us from the very start, and if the ending isn’t entirely satisfying I don’t know what the alternative would be. I feel as helpless as the movers and shakers on screen who are faced with making nearly impossible choices
Posted Oct 20, 2025
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One Battle After Another
(2025)
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Leonard Maltin
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This is a difficult film to describe or synopsize. It’s easy to recommend, however, so long as you know you’re about to watch an appropriately R-rated movie where nothing is sacred. Kudos to Paul Thomas Anderson for crafting a truly great movie.
Posted Sep 27, 2025
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The Long Walk
(2025)
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Leonard Maltin
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The Long Walk is a satisfying piece of entertainment that feels curiously relevant
Posted Sep 27, 2025
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Captain America: Brave New World
(2025)
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Leonard Maltin
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The not-so-secret weapon this CAPTAIN AMERICA has going for it is Harrison Ford. Don’t believe the nay-sayers out there: Brave New World is a 21st century Tall Tale, and if it takes two viewings to take it all in, so be it
Posted Feb 21, 2025
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Unstoppable
(2024)
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Leonard Maltin
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I fear this straightforward telling of Anthony Jerome’s life story will be too “ordinary” to make waves during awards season, but that’s OK: I’m pretty sure moviegoers will approve
Posted Jan 17, 2025
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I'm Still Here
(2024)
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Leonard Maltin
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We have seen families depicted on screen countless times but the five youngsters who comprise the Paiva household inhabit their roles completely. Salles deliberately blurs the line between documentary and dramatization and creates an exceptional film
Posted Jan 17, 2025
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The Last Showgirl
(2024)
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Leonard Maltin
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Director Gia Coppola's feature film debut is a respectable but unmemorable vehicle for Pamela Anderson. The script has been custom-tailored for her and she comes off well, but the film has only one note to play and that's revealed in the title
Posted Jan 13, 2025
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The Brutalist
(2024)
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Leonard Maltin
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The Brutalist is not just another film arriving at year’s end seeking recognition and awards. It is the product of rich imagination and exacting discipline, one struggling artist’s story and his collision with a moneyed sponsor Writ Large
Posted Dec 25, 2024
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A Complete Unknown
(2024)
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Leonard Maltin
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Will younger people relate to this picture or even care about its central figures? I can’t predict that, but I know when I’ve watched a beautifully-crafted period piece. This is my favorite film of the year
Posted Dec 25, 2024
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Maria
(2024)
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Leonard Maltin
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If this biopic piques a moviegoer’s interest in Maria Callas there are many ways to learn about her and listen to her glorious voice. Maria and Jolie’s persuasive performance may well light that fuse of curiosity.
Posted Dec 25, 2024
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Emilia Pérez
(2024)
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Leonard Maltin
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Phrases like “game-changer” and “cutting-edge” can’t capture just how audacious and original Emilia Pérez is. It's a knockout.
Posted Dec 22, 2024
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Day of the Fight
(2023)
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Leonard Maltin
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The Day of the Fight marks the writing and directing debut of actor Jack Huston, and it’s a film he can point to with pride—it’s a creditable and entertaining genre piece
Posted Dec 22, 2024
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Blitz
(2024)
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Leonard Maltin
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Blitz is a powerful and somewhat disarming film about the longterm German bombing of London in 1940. Simply put, it is one of the year’s best.
Posted Nov 24, 2024
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A Real Pain
(2024)
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Leonard Maltin
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Jesse Eisenberg has nothing to prove; he has already staked his claim as an actor, writer, and director. But A Real Pain digs deeper than he ever has before—and it’s a really good movie
Posted Nov 24, 2024
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Bogart: Life Comes in Flashes
(2024)
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Leonard Maltin
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This doc has no startling revelations—but it does view Bogart through a different lens than usual: the women in his life. I'm a sucker for this kind of film & enjoyed going through the beats of Bogie’s life and career, aided by precious home movie footage
Posted Nov 12, 2024
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Conclave
(2024)
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Leonard Maltin
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‘Conclave’ held me in its grip from start to finish. I had a great time watching and predict that it will be a crowd-pleaser
Posted Oct 28, 2024
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Anora
(2024)
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Leonard Maltin
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Watching Anora is like riding shotgun alongside a reckless driver. Sean Baker is one of the brightest and most original filmmakers of his generation. He is one of a kind, and so is Anora.
Posted Oct 19, 2024
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The Apprentice
(2024)
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Leonard Maltin
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The Apprentice delivers an entertaining portrait of a three-dimensional human being who so emulates his mentor that he finally acquires all of his most disturbing traits. It’s a smart, but not smart-alecky, dramatization of his evolution.
Posted Oct 13, 2024
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Joker: Folie à Deux
(2024)
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Leonard Maltin
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What a waste.
Posted Oct 06, 2024
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The Wild Robot
(2024)
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Leonard Maltin
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The Wild Robot is a genuinely beautiful movie, in every sense of that adjective. Its physical production is impressive, to say the least, but there are no weak links in its chain, from character design to its exquisitely rendered environment
Posted Sep 29, 2024
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Merchant Ivory
(2023)
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Leonard Maltin
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Not every documentary about filmmaking successfully dives beneath the surface as this one does. But then, few subjects are as rich or as deep as that of Ismail Merchant & James Ivory. In short they were one-of-a-kind. Make it a priority to catch this one
Posted Sep 03, 2024
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My Penguin Friend
(2024)
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Leonard Maltin
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My Penguin Friend is an utterly likable and disarming film. It’s clear that this is one instance where the words “inspired by a true story” are not just movie marketing hyperbole.
Posted Aug 20, 2024
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Modernism, Inc.: The Eliot Noyes Design Story
(2023)
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Leonard Maltin
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Cohn does an excellent job surveying Noyes’ life and career, and I was hooked from the very start. A first rate and absorbing documentary
Posted Jul 21, 2024
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Twisters
(2024)
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Leonard Maltin
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The reason to see Twisters is to feel the same emotions one enjoys on a roller coaster ride. Its visual effects are vivid and spectacular and there is some catharsis in watching ordinary people behave in extraordinary ways when disaster strikes
Posted Jul 20, 2024
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Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger
(2024)
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Leonard Maltin
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If you are already a Powell and Pressburger aficionado, this highly personal documentary, hosted and produced by Martin Scorsese, will be catnip. I found it positively thrilling
Posted Jul 11, 2024
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The Conqueror: Hollywood Fallout
(2023)
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Leonard Maltin
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The backstory of the notorious turkey The Conqueror, starring John Wayne as Genghis Khan, has all the ingredients for a stimulating documentary, but Hollywood Fallout puts that story into a larger and more troubling context.
Posted Jun 28, 2024
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Daddio
(2023)
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Leonard Maltin
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If you’re going to make a two-character film you’d better have two really interesting people in your script and damned good actors to play them. Daddio has exactly that, and the result is an intriguing curio
Posted Jun 28, 2024
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The Bikeriders
(2023)
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Leonard Maltin
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The Bikeriders has an air of authenticity, and its leading actors are completely convincing. I bought in and found the film compelling from start to finish
Posted Jun 22, 2024
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Thelma
(2024)
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Leonard Maltin
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If it weren’t for casting a bona fide nonagenarian in the title role, Thelma might not work at all. But it doesn’t pander to its audience and treats its characters with dignity and a dash of comic exaggeration.
Posted Jun 22, 2024
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Robot Dreams
(2023)
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Leonard Maltin
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Robot Dreams, loosely based on a graphic novel by Sarah Varon, is a true original—one of a kind. That’s a tribute to the storytelling skills of Pablo Berger and his collaborators
Posted Jun 18, 2024
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Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
(2024)
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Leonard Maltin
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I bought into Furiosa’s eye-popping visuals one hundred per cent. Kudos to George Miller for delivering a prize package of entertainment well worth seeing on a big theater screen
Posted May 24, 2024
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Coup de Chance
(2023)
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Leonard Maltin
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Would anyone pay particular attention to a French import about love and deception without well-known stars if Woody Allen’s name weren’t attached to it? Perhaps not. But since this is his work—recognizably so—it's worth seeing
Posted Apr 05, 2024
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Monkey Man
(2024)
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Leonard Maltin
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Genre fans may disagree but I would rather see an in-your-face action yarn than one that pretends to be something more…and doesn’t know when to quit.
Posted Apr 05, 2024
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Ordinary Angels
(2024)
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Leonard Maltin
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Ordinary Angels is a true story and a remarkable one at that. Living with our two-year old granddaughter has made me especially vulnerable to dramas about young children in peril, and it didn’t take long for this one to open my tear ducts
Posted Feb 23, 2024
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Io Capitano
(2023)
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Leonard Maltin
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This is storytelling at its most visceral, painted on a broad canvas that reminded me of a saga by David Lean. In a year when all five Oscar contenders for International Film are so worthy, this one captured my heart
Posted Feb 23, 2024
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The Promised Land
(2023)
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Leonard Maltin
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Describing this movie in print emits an air of cliché, but in fact The Promised Land is a full-blooded epic of one man’s achievements against all odds played perfectly by Mads Mikkelsen
Posted Feb 03, 2024
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Vishniac
(2023)
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Leonard Maltin
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‘Vishniac’ is a perfect marriage of subject and storyteller. Thank goodness Laura Bialis was able to interview Vishniac’s daughter Mara, who passed away in 2018, and accumulate all the background materials that make this film so vividly true
Posted Jan 22, 2024
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Ferrari
(2023)
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Leonard Maltin
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Ferrari has crossed the finish line in style. It’s exciting, intelligent, witty and elegant, with a central performance that’s a knockout.
Posted Dec 27, 2023
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American Fiction
(2023)
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Leonard Maltin
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Satire is a rare commodity and always has been, but Cord Jefferson’s debut film 'American Fiction' has restored my faith in its survival. What’s more, it offers the gifted Jeffrey Wright an exceptional leading role that he plays to perfection
Posted Dec 15, 2023
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Poor Things
(2023)
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Leonard Maltin
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On the face of it, I wouldn’t have bet that I would take to Yorgos Lanthimos’s latest film, but I am crazy about Poor Things. No other film in recent memory can match it for sheer ingenuity, both in terms of storytelling and visual execution
Posted Dec 08, 2023
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Origin
(2023)
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Leonard Maltin
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Origin is one-of-a-kind: a uniquely powerful movie that stays with you long after the credits have rolled. Ava DuVernay has taken a big swing and hit a home run.
Posted Dec 08, 2023
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